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The Islander, Grimes, CA (bar) |
abstractiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 582
From: Lodi, CA
|  Posted: 2010-04-12 4:14 pm Permalink
Happy to be of service Jab!
It just kills me to think this sign might be in a landfill right now. It would have been a grand treasure in any collection of Tiki artifacts.
I wonder if this place was ever a tiki bar or the owner just got this sign from some other tiki bar and decided to stick it up there.
If it wasn't originally made for this bar then where did it come from I wonder?
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Vintage Roadside
Tiki Centralite
Joined: May 21, 2009
Posts: 68
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2010-04-14 10:58 am Permalink
I've heard back, and according to the owner of the bar the sign was destroyed by a wind storm back in January...
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1961surf
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1895
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2010-04-15 10:34 pm Permalink
What a bummer I wanted it !Thanks for the up date .Would like to know how a wind
storm destroys a sheet metal or galvinized sign though.
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Vintage Roadside
Tiki Centralite
Joined: May 21, 2009
Posts: 68
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2010-04-16 2:25 pm Permalink
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On 2010-04-15 22:34, 1961surf wrote:
What a bummer I wanted it !Thanks for the up date .Would like to know how a wind
storm destroys a sheet metal or galvinized sign though.
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I think just about any of us here would have loved to give the sign a new home! I would have been perfectly happy even ending up with the pieces after the storm  It must have blown off the roof and broken the plastic panels. I think the tiki was probably hollow so maybe it was crushed when it landed...
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