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Witco in Daytona Beach |
happy buddha
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Sep 13, 2008
Posts: 88 |  Posted: 2013-03-21 03:55 am Permalink
This is not my listing, but a restaurant is closing down in Daytona Beach, and has a nice little assortment of Witco & some tikis for sale. From the looks of the ad, you could probably get it all pretty cheap.
Way too far away for me, but hope somebody here can rescue the pieces.. I'd be interested in the Witco paddle in the middle of the pic as a finders fee! 
Check Daytona beach CL under 'tiki'.
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-03-21 12:11 pm Permalink
This makes me sad. What we are looking at here is the remnants of Julian's:
All we have left now is this truly great Tiki archeology thread here on TC:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=27073&forum=2&start=0
I shudder to think what happened to that great mural
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Philot
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 04, 2003
Posts: 187
From: The armpit of Florida
| Posted: 2013-03-21 1:04 pm Permalink
I hope those crazy shield light sconces don't end up in a dumpster. Those were real retro MCM primitive. I haven't seen anything similar anywhere else. I seem to recall they had similar shields on parts of the outside of the building too.
Here I thought any restaurants that made it this far through the great recession were safe by now.
From what I've heard, the spacecoast is like a ghost town now. I would expect that would have spill-over effect on Daytona.
[ This Message was edited by: Philot 2013-03-21 13:08 ]
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SandraDee
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 11, 2011
Posts: 583 | Posted: 2013-03-21 1:30 pm Permalink
I pointed the custom carvering couple DeTiki to that Craigslist ad and Sarah (one half of DeTiki) posted they bought it.
She said that all of the tiki items pictured in the listing was all of the tiki they had to sell and that the family kept the rest of it.
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Swanky
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 03, 2002
Posts: 4807
From: Hapa Haole Hideaway, TN
| Posted: 2013-03-22 07:28 am Permalink
Yeah, I put David Bemoll on it and he was too late last night.
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Big Kahuna
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 11, 2007
Posts: 1908
From: SoMass
| Posted: 2013-03-22 4:37 pm Permalink
UGH! What a shame!
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Tiki-Troll
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 17, 2002
Posts: 122
From: D-LAND FL
| Posted: 2013-03-23 6:49 pm Permalink
if it makes anyone happier about it not only are we thrilled to have them but we just bought a house just down the road from the restaurant, not even a mile, for our new studio and workshop space. So they are staying close to home! Can't wait to get our new house together cause I have more than just that find to add to the "show me your Witco" thread. Considering how close Julians is to my house and how fantastic it is I am just hoping they make it into a nice restaurant, tiki or not and not another Dollar General that seems to be the new Walgreens of invasive store species in Florida.
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Big Kahuna
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 11, 2007
Posts: 1908
From: SoMass
| Posted: 2013-03-24 07:18 am Permalink
Glad the stuff is in good hands. Post some pics, when you have a chance.
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