Articles – Mai-Kai: History and Mystery Book

History & Mystery of The Iconic Tiki Restaurant

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.

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

Pecha Kucha is a worldwide series of presentation all with the same format: 20 images which each displaying for 20

During the west coast book tour, and actually during Tiki Oasis, I stepped away for an hour with Adrian “Polynesian

Mariano Licudine didn’t get the coverage I wanted in the book. I just was too pressed for time. I hope

The Mai-Kai created the Happy Talk newsletter to send out to the snowbirds back home to help keep them in

A nice article on Tales of the Cocktail about drinking clubs at Tiki establishments. There is a chapter in my

An interesting bit about the history of one of the Mai-Kai’s rivals, the South Pacific in Hollandale Florida. None of

March 1964 image from the Mai-Kai’s “Happy Talk” newsletter. The Mai-Kai was the backdrop to many ad campaigns.