{"id":347,"date":"2008-01-05T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/01\/05\/vintage-tapa-outrigger-resurrection\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T15:43:42","slug":"vintage-tapa-outrigger-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/01\/05\/vintage-tapa-outrigger-resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Tapa Outrigger Lamp Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/\/uploads\/2008\/01\/tapalamp.JPG\" title=\"Tapa Outrigger Lamp\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/\/uploads\/2008\/01\/tapalamp.thumbnail.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"Tapa Outrigger Lamp\" title=\"Tapa Outrigger Lamp\" class=\"image\" \/><\/a>Aloha John has been keeping his eye on the remains of a local San Bernardino Poly Pop establishment, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.critiki.com\/cgi-bin\/location.cgi?loc_id=622\" title=\"Critiki Entry\">Trader Island <\/a>for a long time. He\u00c2\u00a0made a deal to own this outrigger lamp, and then the place was sold and became a sports bar. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikiroom.com\/tikicentral\/bb\/viewtopic.php?topic=26815&amp;forum=1&amp;24\" title=\"Tiki Central\">Head over to TC and read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha John has been keeping his eye on the remains of a local San Bernardino Poly Pop establishment, Trader Island for a long time. He\u00c2\u00a0made a deal to own this <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/01\/05\/vintage-tapa-outrigger-resurrection\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[542,287,547,11,540],"tags":[215,702,294,347,379,405],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tiki-collecting","category-og-tiki-central","category-places","category-polynesian-pop","category-retro-preservation","tag-lamp","tag-og-tiki-central","tag-outrigger","tag-san-bernardino","tag-tapa","tag-trader-island"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-5B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":332,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/12\/03\/mai-kai-calendar-a-day-44\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":0},"title":"Mai Kai Calendar a Day #44","author":"Swanky","date":"December 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's probably a good idea that the outrigger isn't there now. 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