Post #680195 by Slacks Ferret on Fri, May 31, 2013 9:31 AM

I found these on Craigslist:

My friend picked them up for me. The owners told my friend that these were used by an "old tiki restaurant that used to be downtown". So were these used at the Calgary Beachcomber or the Tiki Tiki? This is the first time I've come across these mugs in my 10 years of collecting, so I'm gonna guess these are from the short-lived Beachcomber (which opened in the late 60's and burned down in the early 70's). They also sort of (but not really) look like the "Head Hunter" drink mug depicted in the menu:(not my photo):

Also, it's interesting to note that they look very similar to the Trader Dick's Moai mug,

http://www.ooga-mooga.com/cgi-bin/all/mug.cgi?mode=view&mug_id=3325

but they are slightly different because of the delineated eyes

http://www.ooga-mooga.com/cgi-bin/all/mug.cgi?mode=view&mug_id=2650

[ Edited by: Slacks Ferret 2013-05-31 09:34 ]