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History & Mystery of The Iconic Tiki Restaurant

Hawaii Tomorrow 1966 by Bob Van Dorpe and Herb Kane

This is one example from 1966 of the vision of Bob Van Dorpe and Herb Kane for the islands, in

Andree Doucet was a founding member of the Mai-Kai show. She had started in the United States ae the Hilton

Bunny Yeager was an asset to the Mai-Kai. Many of the girls who worked in the Molokai Bar were also

Leonce Picot 1932 – 2018 When I began researching the Mai-Kai book in earnest, the first person I tracked down

First general manager of the Mai-Kai Bob Van Dorpe was friends with Herb Kane since their time together at the

The original bar at the Mai-Kai was not the Molokai Bar, but the Surfboard Bar. It was made from real,

Girl of the month was none other than Carol Sparkman, who was good friends with Johnny Carson and was on

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This short lived idea to reward the regulars and promote camaraderie was another crazy brain-child of the Mai-Kai managers and