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• Swank Blather - Blogistan - 2007 - Lots of updates of all sorts. Instead of pade on the Swank Pad, there are now blog posts. Tons of new things from tiki to Googie.

• The Hukilau Tiki Event History - April 17, 2006 - I get emails all the time asking me where the previous Hukilau sites have gone. Often they are interested in the music. If you want the music, check out my Exotica CD for sale here on Swank Pad. I put together the soundtrack for Hukilau every year. In my ongoing effort to put my personal tiki history online, I have put the 2002 through 2005 Hukilau websites online over on my other site Hukilau.org. Add it to my resume: creator and organizer of the biggest tiki event outside of Tiki Oasis.

• Swank Pad - The Forums - March 5, 2006 - I have created forums where I can put more stuff tahn fits on the site. It is especially for the Knoxville Then and Now section. I hope many people will give me input on these lost places..

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - Mount Vernon Motel - Kingston Pike - January 14, 2006 - Now Futon World.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - 11-70 Motor Court - Kingston Pike - January 14, 2006 - It's still there and looking good!.

• Vanishing America - Highway 11 - January 14, 2006 - The 11-70 Motor Court.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville, TN - January 14, 2006 - Belleza.

• Swank Pad's Best of Knoxville - January 1, 2006 - My best things and places in this city.

• Vanishing America - Columbus, OH - August 28, 2005 - A great restaurant in Columbus.

• Modern Classic Tiki Bar - Augusta, GA - July 14, 2005 - A log of our turning this place into an incredible tiki bar.

• Vanishing America - Clinton, TN - June 9, 2005 - The famous Clinton Hwy airplane gas station and a motel.

• Hukilau 2003 Video online - May 28, 2005 - I slapped this video together a long time ago, but just found a way to share this massive file without costing me a lot of money. Enjoy "I Belli di Waikiki", King Kukulele, Crazy Al and more!

• A New Project - May 28, 2005 - I am working this year to open a tiki bar in Knoxville, TN. The site is now up.

• Vanishing America - Highway 11, TN - January 27, 2005 - A couple of pictures I needed to add somewhere.

• Vanishing America - Daytona Beach, FL - January 27, 2005 - A mid-century extravaganza!

• Hapa Haole Hideaway Tiki Bar Tour - January 18, 2005 - My home bar.

• Swank Pad Donations - November 6, 2004 - After nearly a year of unemployment, I am now taking donations to support the Swank Pad site and online broadcast. The link to the PayPal donation is at the top of the home page. Thanks..

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - Mockingbird Motel - US 25W - November 1, 2004 - Nothing remains of this one.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - Knox Motel & Clark Motel - US 25W - October 31, 2004 - There is a building standing and remnants of a sign..

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - The Pioneer House - US 129 towards Maryville - October 16, 2004 - The place is there for now, but will likely be gone soon.

• The Grogalizer - June 6, 2004 - A new site to help you use "The Grog Log" and "Intoxica." it will help you find which drinks you can make with your ingredients.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - May 4, 2004 - Added (near bottom) Gay Street twice, Knox Motel, Mockingbird Motel, Freeway Motel and Post Office. I have not completed these pages, but will soon..

• Elwood - May 3, 2004 - Resurrecting some old pages. This is for a long time friend's car based on the Blues Mobile.

• Swank Blog - Calling all troops! - April 27, 2004 - Let's take back the airwaves and music for adults!

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - April 1, 2004 - Added "The Gay Way".

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - March 31, 2004 - Added interior images to the Country Squire.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - March 21, 2004 - Added the Colony Tourist Court.

• Vanishing America - Augusta - March 18, 2004 - An incredible time capsule downtown.

• Swank Photography - February 29, 2004 - Some of my art photography. Caution, some nudity.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now - February 23, 2004 - Updated the Sharpe's Motel, Capri and added the Country Squire motel.

• Vanishing America - Nashville - January 29, 2004 - The Omni Hut and a perfect Soda Shop.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville - January 29, 2004 - Freezo sign.

• Spiegel Catalog 1969 - January 22, 2004 - The start, a peak, at more sections in the 1969 Spiegel catalog.

• The New Bachelor - January 22, 2004 - Long neglected, people visit it a lot, so I fleshed it out a bit. There are now some gals in the little black book.

• We have a winner! - January 14, 2004 - A new Caption the Cartoon contest is up for Winter and a winner of the CD!

• Lotta Livin - January 8, 2004 - Lotta Livin partners up with The Swank Pad as the broadcast becomes the official sounds of that site. I do not generally do links, but this partnership should be good for both of us. We're building a communit!.

• Spiegel Catalog 1969 - January 4, 2004 - A new page in the catalog.

• Swank Pad Broadcast - December 27, 2003 - Recorded 2 new LPs for the show from "Adventures in Stereo" boxed set. Record one is Esquivel's Latin-esque and two is Dick Schory's Stereo Action Goes Broadway. Lots of Stereo Action!

• Spiegel Catalog 1969 - December 25, 2003 - A new page in the catalog for the bloggers.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - December 21, 2003 - Bill's Drive In in Bearden.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - December 21, 2003 - Colonial Tourist Court, Bearden.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - December 15, 2003 - A new format.

• Swank Vinyl Exotica CD II - December 11, 2003 - An all new version of the classic tiki bar soundtrack.

• Ads! - December 9, 2003 - I have added links to Swank Martini's site as a sponsor. The name fits, and I am currently unemployed and need money to pay my bar tabs! Click, buy and support the Swank Pad.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - November 9, 2003 - Town Lodge and Heart of Knoxville Motel postcards.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - October 26, 2003 - The Dixieland Drive In and another Magnolia Motel postcard.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - October 14, 2003 - The Magnolia Motel.

• Vanishing America - Knoxville Then and Now. - October 4, 2003 - A big new batch of postcards and how they look today in this section.

• Vanishing America - October 4, 2003 - A Blue Circle sign in Knoxville.

• Spiegel Catalog 1969 - September 19, 2003 - The start, a peak, at the next section on the 1969 Spiegel catalog.

• Spiegel Catalog 1957 - September 19, 2003 - Finished! I am done with this section! Onto the next catalog!

• Spiegel Catalog 1957 - September 18, 2003 - I added this image from the back of the catalog.

• Spiegel Catalog 1957 - September 18, 2003 - I added the kids section.

• The American Home - September 9, 2003 - The 50s childhood home of Ted Nugent.

• Vanishing America - September 1, 2003 - A fantasctic motel in the mountains of East Tennessee!

• Vanishing America - August 23, 2003 - A new project. Knoxville then and now comparing vintage postcards to the current locale.

• Drink recipe and help with your mangoes - August 10, 2003 - At the Swank Pad we drink our fruits. Here is how to prepare mango for drinking!

• Vanishing America - August 10, 2003 - US431 from Gadsden to Anniston, Alabama

• We have a winner! - August 9, 2003 - A new Caption the Cartoon contest is up for August and a winner of the CD!

• The American Home - August 5, 2003 - I found a 1956 version of the book at The Highway 127 World's Largest Yard Sale this weekend and have a few new pages today..

• Fort Lauderdale, FL - July 12, 2003 - Our recent Hukilau event leads to a new page of Googie.

• We have a winner! - May 7, 2003 - A new contest is up for May and a winner of the CD!

• The Swank Blog - May 6, 2003 - I decided to start putting some of my thoughts on the site. Clear my head a bit.

• Vanishing America - April 19, 2003 - Kiliki adds new images of New Orleans.

• Spiegel Catalog 1957 - April 10, 2003 - I added a bunch to the Women's section, I started the Men's, Home and Sewing section.

• We have a winner! - April 8, 2003 - A new contest is up for April and a winner of the CD!

• Vanishing America - April 8, 2003 - Cave City, KY, home of Wigwam Village.

• Vanishing America - April 8, 2003 - A Chattanooga icon.

• Favorites - March 12, 2003 - A little about my favorite recording artists.

• We have a winner! - March 12, 2003 - Forgot to post this to the news on the 1st. A new contest is up for March and a winner of the CD!

• Vanishing America - March 12, 2003 - Added a new sign.

• Vanishing America - March 12, 2003 - Added a new sign.

• Spiegel Catalog 1957 - February 18, 2003 - This is the first drop in the bucket on this section. I have tons to go. I originally was going to finish the section before I added it, but decided that may never happen and getting it started would motivate me to work on it more. So here is the first section of the first section of this new section.

• Swank Pad & Tiki Kiliki News Form - February 11, 2003 - If you want to know about great bands, antique shows, tiki events, art shows or other fun things to do, sign up for the news and we'll keep you up to date.

• Household Magazine 1951 - February 5, 2003 - 5 new pages to this area, including the funniest of them all for "eager beavers".

• Atlanta, GA - February 2, 2003 - A cool vintage bank building.

• We have a winner! - February 2, 2003 - A new contest is up for February and a winner of the CD!

• Household Magazine 1952 - January 25, 2003 - A new section of fun from 1952. Life was very different in 1952...

• Not exactly new, but different. I added some images to the home page (duh), and I have been making the pages with more thumbnails instead of just big images. The big images take forever to load on 56k connections, and, they eat up my bandwidth. Each month, the average daily hits on this site seems to double. So I am slowly reworking every image to make it smaller, and using thumbnails where ever I can to cut down on the bandwidth. At the current rate of growth for the site, it won't be too many more months before this all could be a problem. Also, the Hukilau site is about to come online, and that is expected to get 4-10,000 hits per day. That will likely mean much more traffic here as well. Soooo. Where ever you see a small thumbnail, you can still click on it and see the larger image.

• Highways 11E & 11W in northeast Tennessee - January 19, 2003 - Added a picture of the Helma's Sign at night. Man, that place had some good eatin'! And live Gospel music!

• Highways 11E & 11W in northeast Tennessee - January 13, 2003 - A loop of highways between Knoxville and Bristol, TN, plus a bit of Virginia.

• New Bill Ward Contest - January 1, 2003 - New Bill Ward contest entry with a prize for the winner this month!

• The American Home - December 31, 2002 - Added a few more new rooms.

• The American Home - December 30, 2002 - Added a couple of new rooms and intermission pages every 5 or so.

• Vanishing America - December 21, 2002 - Reformatted the Knoxville and Chapman pages with just thumbnails. After visiting a friend with dial-up service, we saw how slow the pages with large images load. So we decided to make thumbnails to keep people with slow connections from being frustrated. You can click the thumbnails to see the images full sized in a new window.

• New Bill Ward cartoon - December 4, 2002 - New Bill Ward cheescake - please enter!

• The American Home - December 2, 2002 - 4 brand spanking new rooms. Go spank them!

• Vanishing America - November 19, 2002 - Alabama page added with Redi Kilowatt.

• Vanishing America - November 12, 2002 - Added the night shot of the MAC neon sign.

• Vanishing America - November 11, 2002 - Added the 5th. Ave. Motel which is slated for demolition soon, and 3 other locales.

• Vanishing America - November 5, 2002 - Added some graphics to the home page of the site as well as the Vanishing America site. This leads to the custom 404 page.

• Vanishing America - November 3, 2002 - More from Chapman Highway in Tennessee.

• Vanishing America - November 3, 2002 - More from Highway 411 in Tennessee.

• Vanishing America - October 30, 2002 - The Art Deco Princess Theater in Harriman

• The American Home - October 28, 2002 - Found there were many errors on this sight. Some pages were skipped,so it's like having new pages!

• Vanishing America - October 27, 2002 - Added the Clark Motel on Clinton Hwy. Great signage!

• Vanishing America - October 25, 2002 - Added a Knoxville page. Much more to come on this page.

• The American Home - October 20, 2002 - A new room.

• The American Home - October 18, 2002 - A new room.

• Vanishing America - October 17, 2002 - Added some pictures from New Orleans and Chapman Hwy, TN.

• The American Home - October 16, 2002 - A new room.

• The Tiki Gardens Souvenir LP - October 10, 2002 - With a lot of help from the Tiki Central people and for those people, I have all the songs ready to download.

• New Bill Ward cartoon - October 8, 2002 - Okay, okay, I will update this section every month, just please submit your entries.

• Our Tiki Collection - October 6, 2002 - We got pictures of maybe half the collection up. We will get everything up with descriptions of everything in time.

• Vanishing America - September 12, 2002 - The first installment is from Highway 411 in Tennessee.

• The American Home - Early September 2002 - Several new pages.