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Every
day is a blast at Tiki Farm! Our customers are some of the coolest
people around and we enjoy what we do way more than we can tell
you here! At our office, we've got 3 tiki bars, 1 restored Gilligan's
Island pinball machine, a pool table, a dart board, a couple of
hundred vintage tiki mugs, a bunch of old statues, wall masks &
poles plus, some old travel agency tiki advertisements for Hawaii,
puffer fish lights, 2 giant Shag murals… all of the prerequisites
from a fanatical tiki collector's collection who decided to make
cool tiki mugs for a living.
Tiki
Farm's roots came from a previous .com business venture called www.ebachelorpad.com
(now defunct). Holden Westland started eBachelorpad with his
good pal Charlie Rubel (aka: Chester Suave, aka: Our Webmaster Extrordinaire
- the proof's in the puddin' baby… now go check out the Suave
Fellow at Studio531.com
and if you want to use his services… get in line!). We had
one of the earliest e-commerce sites with an entire section dedicated
to "tiki". Hey man - tiki basically was the coolest and
most in-depth part of eBachelorpad. I mean I'm a collector, I knew
that there was a need for others like me to source this stuff but
it came down to this - I wasn't happy with the offshore stuff and
I couldn't afford the limited edition stuff. Tiki Farm was thus
born - bitchen tiki mugs (in our humble opinion) at affordable prices.
We've
got a "stable" of excellent low-brow and some now "high-brow/low-brow"
artists! If it wasn't for our initial pairing with Shag (www.shag-art.com)
who knows if this thing would have ever taken off!? Thank you one
gazillion times over Shag for your great friendship and most excellent
contributions! Also darn you Shag as I never really intended on
growing this thing past your basic garage style of business (like
many people, I aspire to work in my boxer shorts out of my guest
bedroom - sorry, didn't mean to gross you out!). Our other
artist's include...
Von
Franco
The
Pizz
Crazy
Al
Jimmy
C.
Drew
Brophy
Squid
Joe
Vitale
Donella
Vitale
Danny
G.
Flounder
Marcus
Pizzuti
Kevin
Kidney
Jody
Daily
Derek
Yaniger
and
coming soon...
Tiki
Tony
Doug
Horne
Rick
Rietveld
Wayne
Coombs
Stone
We will
always keep it fresh for you our fanatical tiki friends! We will
continue to do our best to introduce 20-30 or more new products
per year indefinitely and all the while, retiring existing products
to lend to their ultimate collectibility. We dig you because you
rock… you know who you are! Thanks to our friends, fans and
fanatics (and let me tell you - some of you are pretty obsessed…
right on!) - without you we'd, well, we'd be somewhere else! When
you're in the neighborhood stop on by - we'll give you a tour of
the Farm and you just might leave with a complimentary tiki mug
if you're real nice and a true tiki fanatic!
Mahaloz!
Holden Westland; President & Founder
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