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History & Mystery of The Iconic Tiki Restaurant

Happy Talk Winter 1967

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

Join Swanky for an afternoon of Mai-Kai history with ephemera, images, video, Mai-Kai veterans and stories free at The Hukilau!

This short lived idea to reward the regulars and promote camaraderie was another crazy brain-child of the Mai-Kai managers and

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

I have talked to many people who worked at the Mai-Kai over the years. When asked about the old uniforms,

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

I’ve been talking to Ann Campbell of many years and marveling at her memory and her life. She has her

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

The true “island maiden” of our dreams, Nani Maka started as a trained Hawaiian hula dancer in Wailuku and performer

Randy will join me in my Tiki Oasis presentation to share his first hand stories of the Mai-Kai, Rum, and