Exciting Don the Beachcomber Announcements
Searching For Don the Beachcomber On the 114th anniversary of Donn’s birth, I wanted to share some exciting news with
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Traveling Lightbox to Shoot Ephemera and Digitize Documents Everywhere
I spent a great many hours creating and testing a technique I use to photograph items and digitize archives around
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Mourning Andree Doucet
Andree Doucet was a founding member of the Mai-Kai show. She had started in the United States ae the Hilton
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South Pacific – Hollandale FL
This is what excites me: a long postcard of a Florida Tiki place that I had not seen before. The
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1950s United Airlines Hawaii Video
This is the greatest bit of vintage aloha I have ever seen. Even Donn Beach himself makes an appearance about
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1962 Bunny Yeager Nude Photos of Chris Darling
Bunny Yeager was an asset to the Mai-Kai. Many of the girls who worked in the Molokai Bar were also
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Another Mai Kai
No, this post is not about the Mai-Kai’s plans to open new restaurants in New York City or San Diego,
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Mai-Kai Slide June 1966
Recently added to the Mai-Kai archive, an image from someone traveling through Fort Lauderdale in 1966. You can see their
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Cultural Appropriation And Tiki
I first became interested in Polynesia via Trader Vic’s in Atlanta and vintage records by Alfred Apaka and Ray Kinney.
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