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• Mai Kai - The Postcards - The complete collection of known Mai Kai postcards
  
• TikiDaze - Retro Tiki Wall Calendar!
  
• The 1961 Corvair catalog. Fun at any speed.
  
• The Swank Pad's Best of Knoxville
  
• Puffer Fish Tiki Bar Lamps For Sale - A key part of any tiki bar, the Swank Pad is glad to now sell puffer fish lamps direct to you.
  
• The Building of Hale Tiki - A modern classic tiki bar in Augusta, GA. Swanky, Bamboo Ben, Crazy Al and Basement Kahuna spent a week building out the bar and turned a old shell into a masterpiece Sven Kirsten called one of the finest bars built in recent times.
  
• Hapa Haole Hideaway Tiki Bar Tour - A tour of my home tiki bar
  
• The Swank Vinyl Exotica CD II - 30 Tracks of vintage vinyl for your tiki bar soundtrack. The exotic mood of the classic tiki bar is recreated from vintage vinyl.
  
• Spiegel 1969 - The 1969 Spiegel catalog. First we had the Fembots, now we see where they live, and how they treat the men and children...
  
• Attack of the Fembots! - Where serious megalomaniac scientists go to dress their luscious robot army! These images are real. Women wore these things.
  
• 1957 Spiegel Catalog - The beautiful world of Star Bright Living. An incredible view of the height of style of the generation!
  
• 1951 Household magazine - The oddities of life in 1951. Ads that are from another era.
  
• Knoxville Then & Now - Urban Archeology in Knoxville, TN. I take vintage postcards of diners and motels and find what exists of those locations today. Sometimes the entire building is there, others there is nothing, and many have a tantalizing remnant of their former glory.
  
• Vanishing 50s America - Hotels, Homes, Diners, Signs, Architecture and more of what remains of a more beautiful time in America. As I travel, I document it's vanishing past.
  
• The American Home - Fun views from 1957 Better Homes and Gardens - Incredible furniture and great designs from the height of 1950's culture, at which I take pot shots and poke fun.
  
• The Grogalizer - The companion site for "The Grog Log" and "Intoxica." Helps you find the recipes you can make from these great books.
  
• The Swank Vinyl Exotica CD - 32 Tracks of vintage vinyl for your tiki bar soundtrack. From Werner Muller to Charles Mauu and many points in between.
  
• Hukilau 2002 in Atlanta - The first year of my tiki event Hukilau. Voted best event of the year by Creative Loafing Mazagine.
  
• Hukilau 2003 at the Mai Kai - The first year Hukilau was held at the Mai Kai. Co-organized by Bre-elle and Tristan Ishtar, Hukilau found its new home with the incredible aloha of the Mai Kai family.
  
• My Hukilau 2003 Video up on Archive.org
• Hukilau 2004 at the Mai Kai - The year of the huricane at Hukilau. The best year for Hukilau, and Jeanne hit us!
  
• Caption the Cartoon Contest - Classic cheesecake cartoons of Bill Ward in a quarterly contest to come up with the best new caption. Winner receives a custom CD of Swank Pad lounge classics
  
• Mango Fever! - Some eat mango. we drink it! Here's how to prepare it for either.
  
• Drink recipes for China Village Mai Tai, and more.
  
• The Ultra Rare Tiki Gardens Souvenir LP - Sorry, the MP3's have been removed at the request of the owner of the copyrights.
  
• The Bachelor Pages - A theme page I started many years ago and never finished.