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hewey
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Joined: Sep 14, 2004
Posts: 4270
From: Sydney, Australia
|  Posted: 2005-05-16 02:40 am Permalink
Naugatiki that is one ultra funky table. Can you just imagine some swanky '50s salesman "look, its a table. Swing this baby out and WOW, its a bar!"
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naugatiki
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Joined: Jan 02, 2004
Posts: 806
From: Port Angeles, Wa
| Posted: 2005-05-16 06:10 am Permalink
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On 2005-05-16 02:40, hewey wrote:
Naugatiki that is one ultra funky table. Can you just imagine some swanky '50s salesman "look, its a table. Swing this baby out and WOW, its a bar!"
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It reminds me of an extreme version of those knick knacks in the 60's that look liked something quait and turned into a portable bar. I've seen Hollow radios, a castle and assorted music boxes. It would be nice to see a fold away bed that becomes a fold away bar.
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exotica59
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Joined: Oct 17, 2004
Posts: 475 | Posted: 2005-05-16 09:37 am Permalink
Here are afew of my more favorite finds from this seasons fea market, antique mall travels.
first up is a Heywood Wakefield very modern round table with spacey swivel chairs. It's not blonde wood, but sooo differant looking. I found this being used as a sort of workshop table for a dealer at a antique mall. Table top in was in bad shape, but I used furniture restore and it now looks great.
this sputnik lamp I found in a tiny town known for it's huge amount of 50's collectables. I also have three small ones that are used as hall lights.
This looks like a bowling trophy...
but pull off the top and it's drinks all around!
this is part of my starburst shaped clock collection
and lastly for today is half of my Manny family. The lovely Barbara has been with me for many years. I rescued her from a flowershop window. Bruce was purchased from a antique mall.He is a very nice and unusal manny. Then I have the kids. This is one of 3 small sized mannies, and I also have "Chip" whom most of you have seen in another post, dressed up like a pirate, he greets everyone to my as yet named home bar and lounge.
This a small seclection of the stuff I pick up as we travel around in the fall and winter months. I never pay a much for these treasures,most of the fun is in the "hunt" for what I like.
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Tikiwahine
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Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3288
From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2005-05-16 11:44 am Permalink
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On 2005-05-16 01:40, stuff-o-rama wrote:
What is wrong with people? A perfectly good paint by numbers Jesus! It's mine, Mine, MINE!!!
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That would be a great name for a punk band...
And now... the blind fury of...Paint by Numbers Jesus!
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Tikiwahine
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Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3288
From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2005-05-16 2:17 pm Permalink
A little beyond tiki find today.
A mint-in-leather-case Sekonic L-6 light meter.
I don't know how to use it, but I'm sure it'll come in handy.
It looks like this one:
Oh ya, it was priced at $19.99 but I was able to talk them down to $12.99(I was hoping for $15 or less)
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bigbadtikidaddy
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Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 429 | Posted: 2005-05-16 4:21 pm Permalink
Nice finds everyone!
alot of fun stuff to see.
(a paint by numbers Jesus? for free? GOLD!)
Naugatiki- very swingin coffee table bar. very 007 style & $50 is a great price for one of those.
Tikifish- imo, your tray looks to be a decorative bowl, but I reckon it could be used as an ikebana as well. I've seen similar, but not exactly like yours. it's nice.
Exotica59- I love cool retro stuff & that bowling ball bar caddy is friggin awesome! (nice sputnik also)
I scored this cool sunburst wall sculpture months ago.
I have too many wall sculptures, so I was going to sell it originally.
As too often happens, now I really like it & want to keep it.
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ZebraTiki
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Joined: Aug 01, 2004
Posts: 530
From: Enchanted Bay Area, CA
| Posted: 2005-05-16 6:06 pm Permalink
exotica59 - That sputnick lamp is the coolest!!!
But the bowling trophy/drink yourself silly set is impossibly even cooler!!! Thanks so much for posting those pictures, I would never have suspected that bowling ball of hiding anything good!
Y'all are getting me hooked on the sunburst clocks... I love how they are staggered on the wall, great idea for a stairway.
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exotica59
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Joined: Oct 17, 2004
Posts: 475 | Posted: 2005-05-16 7:02 pm Permalink
yea, that bowling ball trophy cracked me up when I first spotted it, and now I've seen several.
Bigbadtikidaddy that sunburst wall hanging is just too cool! I love it.
Zebratiki the best thing about those star or sun burst clocks is that almost everyone I've ever bought still works! I'm lucky if the new battery op. clocks we have today last me a year before they crap out.
Since I'm off for the next couple of weeks with some broken fingers, I'll try to take some more pictures of the stuff I have around the place. My husband says I have a real problem with lamps, and I've got some wild ones. I have them crammed into all the closets around the house. I just can't pass up a cool old 50's lamp. I've got it as bad as the tiki bug.
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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Joined: Jul 20, 2003
Posts: 1026
From: Edmonton
| Posted: 2005-05-21 6:07 pm Permalink
My best thrift store finds lately have been beyond tiki:
This lamp was $8 at Sally Ann:
it's a nice companion for this lamp I got a while back:
this 3D picture was $3 at a hospital rummage sale:
lavalamp $5 at goodwill (the blue one -- the other one I bought retail):
cat head wooden carving, 25¢ at a church rummage sale. whoever did it should try their hand at tikis:
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the drunken hat
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Joined: Dec 20, 2003
Posts: 331
From: Modesto, CA
| Posted: 2005-05-30 10:24 am Permalink
i've been meaning to post this for a while. cleen and i had quite the witco week a while back. here is a link to the other story.
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=14714&forum=5&25
here is the piece that kicked it off! found this at a local thrift shop for $8.99. the scale doesn't look right in the pic. the cat is almost 4 ft high!
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Tikiwahine
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Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3288
From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2005-05-30 10:39 am Permalink
cool! I've always been a fan of the witco cats.
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Tikiwahine
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Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3288
From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2005-06-06 2:46 pm Permalink
( photo from e-bay)
I found one of these sunburst clocks, made by Westclox Canada for $4 at the Value Village.
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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Joined: Jul 20, 2003
Posts: 1026
From: Edmonton
| Posted: 2005-06-27 7:59 pm Permalink
This weekend a friend gave me this stylin' vintage Italian espresso machine from the estate of her husband's aunt
(luckily there's one on ebay right now so you can see what it really looks like)
I bought this cocktail shaker for 2 bucks
and i got a pair of these for 50¢ each
not too exciting but easy to draw. I won't have to draw much longer, I ordered a digital camera last night (from the shopping channel  )
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Tiki Royale
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Joined: Dec 06, 2002
Posts: 891
From: The Aloha Room in Beautiful Belmont, CA!
| Posted: 2005-06-27 9:19 pm Permalink
Hey Sweet Daddy Tiki,
Return the camera... Keep up them great illustrations!
I love that one of the shaker.
Aloha,
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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Joined: Jul 20, 2003
Posts: 1026
From: Edmonton
| Posted: 2005-06-27 9:32 pm Permalink
Thanks, you're too kind.
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