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Don the Beachcomber - The Locations (Updated 01-24-17) |
Dustycajun
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|  Posted: 2013-12-19 1:26 pm Permalink
Time to bump this thread. A few more photos of Don's from Hawaii.
I like the outrigger sign on this one from the International Market Place.
Another old one from the original Don's in Waikiki. Note the fernwood Tiki and Blair's sign out front.
And I also spotted a modern tumbler from Don's.
DC
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TropicDrinkBoy
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Posts: 277 | Posted: 2013-12-19 5:56 pm Permalink
Interesting (to me at least!) that the older one was named 'Don the Beachcomber' while the more recent one was named 'Don the Beachcomber's'.
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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| Posted: 2013-12-19 6:04 pm Permalink
What? no....I don't think so, TropicDrinkBoy
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lunavideogames
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| Posted: 2013-12-19 7:28 pm Permalink
Don't let Grog hear you say that TropicDrinkBoy 
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Dustycajun
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| Posted: 2013-12-20 07:39 am Permalink
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On 2013-12-19 17:56, TropicDrinkBoy wrote:
Interesting (to me at least!) that the older one was named 'Don the Beachcomber' while the more recent one was named 'Don the Beachcomber's'.
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Astute observation. I believe that the sign out in front of the International Market Place is the only one to ever use the name "Don the Beachcomber's".
I think that ATP and Lunavideogames thought you were referring to the newer Don's in Huntington Beach.
DC
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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| Posted: 2013-12-20 2:37 pm Permalink
Got me, is that the same Don the Beachcomber that "Hells Half Acre" was filmed?
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Phillip Roberts
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| Posted: 2013-12-21 2:20 pm Permalink
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On 2013-12-20 14:37, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Got me, is that the same Don the Beachcomber that "Hells Half Acre" was filmed?
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It was probably the earlier 3 grass shacks location on Kalakaua (Where Liberty House stood) because 1953-54 predates the International Market Place by a few years.
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Dustycajun
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| Posted: 2014-05-11 09:14 am Permalink
Just in time for Mothers Day, a family photo in front of Donn's IMP Tiki.
Aloha to all of the Tiki moms out there!
DC
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bigbrotiki
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| Posted: 2014-05-11 10:55 am Permalink
DC - Do we know this Tiki was outside of Don's. Any other pictures that show that?
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Phillip Roberts
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| Posted: 2014-05-11 9:06 pm Permalink
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On 2014-05-11 10:55, bigbrotiki wrote:
DC - Do we know this Tiki was outside of Don's. Any other pictures that show that?
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Yes,
Below and to the right of the treehouse. I have a slide that shows it clearly... I think I've posted it already somewhere...
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Dustycajun
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| Posted: 2014-09-04 4:38 pm Permalink
Spotted s couple of old color slide photos from the Don the Beachcomber in Palm Springs on ebay a while back.
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Dustycajun
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| Posted: 2015-06-02 9:31 pm Permalink
Some old ads showing various DTB locations.
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Jamoorea
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Posts: 22 | Posted: 2015-06-04 5:24 pm Permalink
This thread is spectacularly fantastic! I've been in it for an hour and I can't find my way out. How's a person supposed to get any work done?
Great idea and nice job DC.
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kenbo-jitsu
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| Posted: 2016-01-27 5:58 pm Permalink
So much to love about this thread! I especially think this is cool...
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| On 2009-04-22 21:47, Bora Boris wrote:
Opening in 1943?  Unless that token is some sort of morale building promotion, I would think that the Japanese occupation of both the Philippines and Singapore during that time put a damper on those expansion plans.
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I think you're right about them being a morale-booster, BB. The Brits and Yanks were rather ignominiously defeated in Singapore and the PI, early on. I know that in the case of the Philippines, retaking them was more important symbolically than tactically. IIRC, some considered it a better, quicker plan to bypass them, as we battled toward Japan, but McArthur would have none of that - said he'd return, and that's that, dammit! I'll bet those tokens were one of Donn's contributions to the war effort - given to servicemen, implying that by that date, those locations would not only have been liberated from the "Japs", but a soldier could imagine himself, cleaned-up and comfortable, relaxing in a newly built DTB,... and with claim to a whole barrel of rum!
Great find - combo WWII/Tiki memorabilia.
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Not mentioned yet is the significance of the date November 11th -- known to us Americans now as Veterans Day but known at the time as Armistice Day -- the day the Great War, the War to End All Wars (World War 1) ended. People at the time would have understood the implication. Too bad, for everyone, the war in the Pacific *didn't* end in the fall of 1943.
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Dustycajun
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| Posted: 2016-02-01 4:03 pm Permalink
Kenbo-Jitsu,
Thanks for the update on the significance of the date on the token. Here is another photo spotted on ebay from the restaurant at the International Market Place.
Nice sign and the three cannibals pole.
DC
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