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Traveling Lightbox to Shoot Ephemera and Digitize Documents Everywhere

February 14, 2021February 16, 2021 swanky 1 Comment digitizing large documents, lightbox, photographing menus, photography lightbox, traveling lightbox

I spent a great many hours creating and testing a technique I use to photograph items and digitize archives around

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South Pacific – Hollandale FL

February 12, 2020February 13, 2020 swanky 3 Comments florida, florida tiki, hollandale fl, lewis vandercar, postcard, tiki, vintage postcard

This is what excites me: a long postcard of a Florida Tiki place that I had not seen before. The

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1979 Mai-Kai Calendar

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1962 Bunny Yeager Nude Photos of Chris Darling

August 20, 2019February 29, 2020 swanky 0 Comments

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

August 9, 2019January 6, 2020 swanky 1 Comment

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

August 7, 2019January 6, 2020 swanky 1 Comment

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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Leonce Picot 1932-2018

August 27, 2018August 23, 2021 swanky 5 Comments leonce picot

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

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Herb Kane and Bob Van Dorpe

May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 swanky 0 Comments

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

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Remembering the Surfboard Bar

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018 swanky 0 Comments

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

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Happy Talk Winter 1967

May 10, 2018 swanky 0 Comments deep sea diver, free dive, robert croft

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

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