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Club Nouméa
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 03, 2010
Posts: 326
From: Wanganui
|  Posted: 2012-03-20 6:58 pm Permalink
Hula Dollars!?! So just how many hulas did you get for your Hula Dollar? Did you get the girl too? Was there like, you know, a "gold standard" for these things, or was the Hula Dollar an easily devalued fiat currency?
This could be a concept worth reviving for tiki events...
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Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-03-20 8:00 pm Permalink
Nice digging there, DC. I think that serving ware was actually faux wood plastic - appropriately so. That would be hard to find now...
The Hula girl is Irene Tsu, who also starred in Paradise Hawaiian Style...
...and another important cinematic milestone (for Grog), Women of the Prehistoric Planet!
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KokoKele
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Feb 08, 2012
Posts: 70 | Posted: 2012-03-20 11:11 pm Permalink
Thank you BigBroTiki et al for the blast from my past. The Chevron Island material is as iconic as the Smokey Bear cigarette snuffer my old man kept stuck on the dashboard of the Buick. Ironically, Smokey melted!
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komohana
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 08, 2010
Posts: 348
From: western australia
| Posted: 2012-08-26 7:30 pm Permalink
found these cool photos that may be of interest here
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3929
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-10-29 5:34 pm Permalink
Komohana,
Those are some GREAT photos. Can you imagine pulling the old Chevy into a gas station and getting your tanked filled by that lovely Wahine!
I saw this old banner for sale on ebay a while back.
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3929
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2013-01-12 08:00 am Permalink
A few more entries:
A giant Chevron Island billboard.
And a 70's mod-looking magazine advertisement.
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3929
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2013-03-13 12:25 pm Permalink
I picked up this postcard from Chevron that was used as a thank you card for car service. The card features the lovely Irene Tsu who did the Chevron Island TV commercial that Bigbro posted earlier.
Funny thing is the card was published in Canada, so I guess Chevron Island went multi-national.
DC
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