Post #134216 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jan 6, 2005 1:42 PM

On 2004-12-18 13:04, BornTiki wrote:
put a whole s***load of Don the Beachcomber stuff away, recipe books, floor plans, pictures that span the years, etc.

BornTiki, as author of the Book of Tiki I am very interested in anything like documents/ephemera/floorplans/PHOTOS you may find about Don the Beachcombers, one of my future book projects is on the Beachcomber Style with Don (and Eli) as figureheads.

Also, my friend Jeff Berry, author of the Cocktail chapter in the BOT, and of the Grog Log, Intoxica and Taboo Table, would love to obtain more insight in the recipes, food or drink.

And I am glad to have not lost contact with the Tiki Bob family: when I discovered Raffles on Market, Florence loaned me the menu and some pics to photocopy, and I put them in the Book of Tiki.
I am most curious about the distributor of the mug wares, Takahashi. The manufacture and distribution of Restaurant Tiki mugs, and the history of Otagiri Enterprises are still one of the darkest, undiscovered chapters of Tiki history.

I have no intention to compete with Chef Mikel's request for original items, but I want to ensure that any and all remaining pieces of Tiki history will be saved for posterity and are available to be published, and do not dissappear into obscurity.

Please e-mail me through my homepage below.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-01-06 13:48 ]