• Ultimate Garages - .The garage is more than just a place to store cars. It is a place to work, hang out, and show off the vehicles that are an integral part of car lovers' lifestyles. This lushly illustrated, large-format gift book caters to America's fascination with the garage and looks at 25 of the most incredible garages in the United States. The list of garages compiled by author Phil Berg is a mix of over-the-top garages built by some of the most well-known names in the auto industry, including Bob Lutz, Ken Gross, Brock Yates, Pat Ganahl, and Bruce Meyer. Amazing garages from Peter Mullen's fantastic underground garage full of Delahaye roadsters and famous celebrity garages are also featured in full color detail.
• The Ultimate Garage - .The Ultimate Garage helps you plan, organize, build, and refurbish to transform your garage into a space that works for you. How to get organized so you can use that prime real estate for something more than just storing the car or motorcycle. Hundreds of photos showcasing garages used for a wide variety of interests, including woodworking, hobbies, car and bike workshops, and more. What kind of lighting is best for working on hobbies? What kind of flooring should I choose for my work area? You'll find answers to these questions and more.
• Ultra-Lounge: Tiki Sampler - A great compilation of music that transports you back to a time when tiki bars and cocktail parties were all the rage. The CD has a good variety of music - from tiki-ish, to space age, to downright wacky. The packaging couldn't be any better!
• Don James: Prewar Surfing Photographs - A strong sense of nostalgia and a yearning for a simpler life are the accompaniments to the images in Don James's Pre-War Surfing Photographs. At the end of the Depression and before the beginning of WWII, James and a small group of friends lived a charmed life in Southern California. When school was out, they roamed the undeveloped Eden-like coast from Malibu to San Onofre, scraping together gas money for their worn jalopies, lugging 90-pound wooden boards to the ocean, sleeping in lifeguard huts and makeshift tent camps in the sand. They lived hand-to-mouth, plucking an endless supply of abalone and lobster from the ocean and raiding nearby orange and avocado orchards at night. What spending money they had came from guiding rumrunners to secluded coves, selling fresh fish to local restaurants, life guarding in posh beach clubs in Santa Monica, or acting as stuntmen and extras for Hollywood films. At that time, there were fewer than 200 surfers in the entire state, and James and his friends were inventing a beach/surf culture that would endure for decades.

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• Beach bum Berry's Taboo Table - Forbidden secrets of feast-worthy food! A companion book to The Grog Log and Intoxica!, Taboo Table features Polynesian food recipes and party recipes. Drink-lovers take heart, punches and other exotic drinks also have a welcome place on the Taboo Table!
• Book Of Tiki - This is the best book on the post-war Tiki culture, although there really isn't much competition. The book's strength is its glut of color photos, which chronicle everything from restaurant and resort architecture to barware, film, and graphic design. The text (on the history - mostly the 1940s through the early 1960s - of Tiki culture and notable Tiki people and places, such as Trader Vic's) is good, although scattered about the book in a busy layout.
• Great American Woodies Nantucket Surf White Footrest - The Nantucket Collection is no ordinary furniture. Nantucket is made from Alder wood - a tight-grained hardwood used in fine furniture and noted for its paintability. Nantucket features a clean, classic design with expansion-dowel construction and hidden barrel bolts. Each piece is finished with two coats of a flexible water-based enamel, and washes clean with soap and water. Nantucket - perfect in any setting - indoors or out.
• Hula Dancers & Tiki Gods - Look here for images of grass-skirted hula girls (some more naughty than nice) and, in the last 15 pages or so, those stylized idols known as Tiki gods. The text throughout is breezy and perhaps a little flippant, and, characteristically, most of the objects shown are on the kitschy side. Nonetheless, there is no discounting their popularity. Items shown include everything from postcards, matchbooks, and album covers to furniture, lamps, mugs, jewelry, and tattoos.
• Hula Girls and Surfer Boys - Hula and surfing represent the quintessential Hawaiian experience. Over 270 original photographs and postcard images are presented chronologically from 1870 to 1940 to powerfully portray the evolving styles and popularity of these icons of Hawaii`i. The Hula and surfing traditions both are deeply rooted in legend and myth and Hula dancing was actually outlawed for over 60 years. Surfboards were highly prized by the ancients and the sport became reserved for Hawaii's kings. These enchanting images include famous personalities like Duke Kahanamoku, as well as unknown practitioners of their arts.
• Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings - A good read and a great look! Wonderful photos of the "real" tiki is as well as contemporary re-incarnations in sculpture of Schmaltz and popular paintings by Shag. In a refreshingly non-academic style, the short readable essays offer lots of facts about the lovable, fascinating tiki icon past and present.
• Surfs Up: Collecting the Long board Era - This is the first book to combine a detailed history of surfing, surfboards, and related collectible items with an accurate price guide. It gives a complete overview of sport surfing from its ancient beginnings in Polynesia and Hawaii until 1969, the end of the long board era. Included are several innovative features, such as a grading guide for surfboards, Duke Kahanamokus hand prints, and collectible surfing books with their current valuations. The items pictured are from many of the best private collections worldwide, and represent the enormous range of popular surfing memorabilia. The great icons of the sport all put in appearances to make this the book that all surf fans will covet.
• Surfing San Onofre to Point Dume: 1936-1942 - There's a lot more to this collection than just surfing pics - in fact, they're in the minority. This book is a beautiful photograph record of a time and place lost forever in the shifting sands of time. It would be appreciated by anyone who enjoys the history of California, beaches, surfing, photography, pre-WWII culture and nature.