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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Ephemera
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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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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Leonce Picot 1932-2018
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
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
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
Girl of the month was none other than Carol Sparkman, who was good friends with Johnny Carson and was on
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