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H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Fri, Aug 6, 2004 6:40 PM On 2004-08-06 18:15, filslash wrote: On 2004-08-05 16:11, bigbrotiki wrote: They drank the cocktails, but I have yet to find one oldtimer that (back in the 50s or 60s) collected the mugs. Doesn't that seem wierd? Someone must have gotten the collector bug back then! Not neccessarily... back then, these were souvenirs, not really collectibles saved for their own inherent artistic value--just mementos of a good time, as Sabina noted. Polynesian restaurants were just one type of the many nicer restaurants that would have been the circuit for people back then. It would have been uncommon, probably, for someone to really focus on going only to polynesian hotspots when there were lots of other great steakhouse & piano bar options. What people did collect back then were the smaller, more universal items: my great aunt collected swizzle sticks and kept them in her kitchen, and my grandmother collected matchbooks, and had hundreds of them in a giant mason jar in her living room.

On 2004-08-06 18:15, filslash wrote:

On 2004-08-05 16:11, bigbrotiki wrote:
They drank the cocktails, but I have yet to find one oldtimer that (back in the 50s or 60s) collected the mugs.

Doesn't that seem wierd? Someone must have gotten the collector bug back then!

Not neccessarily... back then, these were souvenirs, not really collectibles saved for their own inherent artistic value--just mementos of a good time, as Sabina noted. Polynesian restaurants were just one type of the many nicer restaurants that would have been the circuit for people back then. It would have been uncommon, probably, for someone to really focus on going only to polynesian hotspots when there were lots of other great steakhouse & piano bar options. What people did collect back then were the smaller, more universal items: my great aunt collected swizzle sticks and kept them in her kitchen, and my grandmother collected matchbooks, and had hundreds of them in a giant mason jar in her living room.

Post #106744 by Humuhumu on Fri, Aug 6, 2004 6:40 PM