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HB TIKI
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Dec 12, 2008
Posts: 651 |  Posted: 2010-06-22 4:52 pm Permalink
Started going to thrift stores this week around SC, end up in Riverside today. Found this hanging on a back wall.
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SuperEight
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Joined: Oct 16, 2004
Posts: 261
From: Palo Alto
| Posted: 2010-06-22 5:03 pm Permalink
I know its not Tiki and some get annoyed with the Hawaiiana around here, but I just have to say that ever since I was a little boy visiting Kauai every year I have LOVED the Primo logo. I hope that someday in my mother's attic I can find my Primo vinyl beach bag that inflates into a pillow. Now that is something that needs to be reproduced.
And I gotta say that Primo Beer is better now than in any other incarnation it has ever had. Glad to have you back Primo.
Suck 'Em Up!
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1961surf
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1896
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2010-06-22 5:44 pm Permalink
Second that motion SuperEight !
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TikiG
Grand Member (2 years) 
Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 1519
From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2010-06-22 6:28 pm Permalink
Had my share of Primo draft at Long Doggers in Satellite Beach, Florida last week. Not bad and a huge hit with the locals.
Also, I might add, I've always had good luck in Riverside finding whatever I was looking for. Great purchase.
Thanks for posting. G
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TikiVato
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Joined: Mar 03, 2009
Posts: 270
From: Whittier, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-22 7:36 pm Permalink
Too Cool. Very nice find.
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skootiki
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Joined: Oct 04, 2009
Posts: 375
From: fallbrook,ca
| Posted: 2010-06-22 10:29 pm Permalink
PRIMO score on the mirror. I have found some nice PRIMO items including a can still full of beer from the 70's .
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SuperEight
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Joined: Oct 16, 2004
Posts: 261
From: Palo Alto
| Posted: 2010-06-22 11:53 pm Permalink
Last summer a surf shop on Kauai was having a bean bag toss for the kids during their parking lot sale. 2 of the prizes were new metal Primo signs and I was pleading with my two 10 year old nieces to try to win it for me. They were too shy. Damn kids.
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TikiHardBop
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Feb 21, 2009
Posts: 358
From: Rockledge, FL
| Posted: 2010-06-23 09:11 am Permalink
TikiG: The table next to me at the Longdoggers in Indialantic had a pitcher of Primo going over lunch and the US-Algeria World Cup match . I was *this* close to snagging the Primo pitcher on my way out...
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TikiG
Grand Member (2 years)
Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 1519
From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2010-06-23 09:20 am Permalink
Primo stuff used to be everywhere when I was a kid in Huntington Beach, California in the 70s.
It seems everyone had at least one promotional item hung up in the garage, a beer bottle, a sign, a mirror - whatever.
Never gave it much thought then. Try to find these items now...
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ZeroTiki
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Joined: Feb 02, 2009
Posts: 744
From: Rohnert Park, California
| Posted: 2010-06-24 09:45 am Permalink
In the pub down the road, they have an actual 3 foot tall Primo beer menehune...Awesome!
Or was it a Longboard menehune?
Crap, I'll have to go to the pub and find out...especially since the owner just came into my bookstore to buy a stack of rum drinkology books, including Trader Vic's Tiki Party...He says they are getting several high quality rums in stock.
The birth of a new Tiki bar? Or merely menehunes at work?
...But I digress. I'll check on the Primo/Longboard question & get right back. After some Rum.
~Zero
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Hatfieldjim
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Joined: Nov 14, 2010
Posts: 1 | Posted: 2010-11-14 12:44 pm Permalink
I just found your posts on Primo by accident. It brought back fond memories.
Back in 1970 I worked as a bottler at Hawaii Brewing in Pearl City. It was sort of a brewery. The "wart" was brewed on the mainland converted to a thick syrup and sent to Hawaii by boat. It was reconstituted and the brewing process was completed. "Primo" was owner by Schlitz.
Jim
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bigtikidude
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Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 8312
From: Anaheim,Ca.
| Posted: 2010-11-15 1:00 pm Permalink
Primo,
the PBR of the Pacific,
Jeff(btd)
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