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History & Mystery of The Iconic Tiki Restaurant

Ephemera

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

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

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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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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Recently added to the Mai-Kai archive, an image from someone traveling through Fort Lauderdale in 1966. You can see their

August 27, 2018 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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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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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