Don The Beachcomber. Jamaica Rum Label 1940s

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Don The Beachcomber. Jamaica Rum Label 1940sErnst Raymond Gantt ( 19071989) was an American explorer, entrepreneur and WWII veteran, who became the founding father of tiki culture. He opened the first ever tiki bar called Don the Beachcomber in the 1930s in Hollywood, California. It offered potent rum cocktails, dcor with a tropical island theme and exotic cuisine that he called South Seas islands food, but was actually standard Cantonese fare. Hollywood stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Bing

Virginia Woolf

In a setting of plush opulence

” wrote Leeteg to his friend Barney Davis

It closed in 1968

Built in Scotland

The sharp profile and intense color of this die-cut drink list is absolutely striking and memorable

Vincent van Gogh

Tables were covered in white tablecloths and there was a piano for entertainment

he notes that Fitzgerald dined out for the last time with Sheilah Graham

closed in 1963

the Stardust closed and customers and staff vacated the building in style by leaving in a conga line

the theater was beautifully restored and reopened in 1967