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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
|  Posted: 2009-10-28 11:51 pm Permalink
Hmm, did KoCharms get it then? I just love the clarity of it. Two things bout the night shot (which is very nice too):
It must have been shot quite a bit later than the previous postcards, judging by the oil spots in the parking spaces!
And they made the effort to erect a SECOND statue of their logo, the Barefoot Trader, on the awning of the additional A-frame. Man I would love to see a close up of that guy!
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1961surf
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1895
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2009-10-31 3:58 pm Permalink
I am really lovin this thread DC ....boy do you have an incredible PC collection.
Thanks for sharing with us all .
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panampia
Tiki Centralite
Joined: May 26, 2006
Posts: 42
From: pittsburgh,pa
| Posted: 2009-11-04 8:39 pm Permalink
The Barefoot Trader was a favorite place for our family to go when we spent a week or two in W Yarmouth in the summers in '63 and '64. I remember it well. I have fishnet and floats that my mom bought there hanging in my Tiki Bar, nearly 50 years later! The A frame is still there. I haven't been to the cape in years and years, but thank goodness for satellites. Take a look: http://www.capelinks.com/cape-cod/maps/aerial/o/41.65265943188114/-70.25007426738739/2/
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-03-12 5:30 pm Permalink
OK, here is another image from the Barefoot Trader brochure (seen on ebay).
This one shows a great rendering of the sister store in Florida and has a picture of the Trader's Hut fruit punch bar ..... is that a Barney West Tiki on the left??
How would you like to wear that bartenders costume all summer!
(are those Crypto Mugs on the counter?)
DC
[ This Message was edited by: Dustycajun 2010-03-12 17:31 ]
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-01-23 10:02 am Permalink
Spotted a few more items from Poly Pop stores in California.
An ashtray on flikr from the Alberg Tropical Plant Rental and Hawaiian Supplies in the Bay Area.
A matchbook from the Coral Reef Imports in LA, surprised this was not listed in the telephone ads posted by Bora Boris.
Wonder if the folks at OA remember these places?
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-03-20 11:01 am Permalink
Picked up an oversized postcard from Waltah Clarke's Hawaiian Shop in Palm Springs.
Close ups of the card.
Waltah had a bunch of locations stretching from Disneyland to Las Vegas.
Also a motto we can all abide by "Fun First, Business Afterwards"!
DC
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-03-20 11:16 am Permalink
I love that photo! Though it is already published in Pete Moruzzi's "Palm Springs Holiday" http://petermoruzzi.com/ ,
I am thinking about using it in Look of Tiki, it is so good.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-03-20 12:53 pm Permalink
Bigbro,
I agree, Waltah Clarke's should be in the Look of Tiki.
Here is a photo of Gretchen Clarke who created Waltah Clarke's in 1952. She was the Waltah!
Some info from her memorial.
Clothing designer Gretchen Clarke has died in California at age 78. She ran Waltah Clarke's Hawaiian Shops in Hawaii and on the mainland with her husband in what was once the nation's largest retailer of aloha wear.
Waltah Clarke's Hawaiian Shops started in 1952 with the opening of the first shop in Palm Springs, a year before Gretchen Clarke met her future husband during hula lessons at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The couple grew Waltah Clarke's to more than 30 stores on the mainland and Hawaii.
Cameron Clarke says his mother designed most of the company's clothes and prints.
Gretchen Rocked!
DC
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DawnTiki
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Sep 01, 2002
Posts: 1674
From: next stop Hulaville!
| Posted: 2011-03-20 1:16 pm Permalink
Did I post this in the wrong thread? I did a search and saw nothing of it posted yet. Funny ...
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=14543&forum=13&start=855&869
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-03-27 11:53 am Permalink
Tiki car sales
On the Pacific Coast Highway.
DC
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Big Kahuna
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 11, 2007
Posts: 1908
From: SoMass
| Posted: 2011-10-26 6:59 pm Permalink
The Cape Cod location today.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-01-22 11:28 am Permalink
A few more old photo shots of the Barefoot Trader.
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-03-15 9:32 pm Permalink
Found this great ad on-line from Waltah Clarks.
Located in Las Vegas across from the Stardust and the Aku Aku.
Other locations in Palm Springs, Laguna Beach, Balboa, Disneyland, Scottsdale and Chicago. Chicago??
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-05-27 08:22 am Permalink
Another Tiki beauty saloon in Sacramento.
Why do the hairdressers always have such exotic names?
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3925
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-08-26 1:46 pm Permalink
Here is another postcard I have showing the flaming Moai at the Barefoot Trader in West Yarmouth, Mass.
A cool feature, would look good in the backyard!
Also spotted this cool Barefoot Trader footprint ashtray on ebay.
DC
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