Post #212919 by martiki on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 6:30 AM

On 2006-02-05 00:06, bigbrotiki wrote:
The wonders of the internet! Even though I am snowed in in the Bavarian backwoods, a few mouse clicks make me feel back at home with the Tiki community.

Tiki Bob's..OK...here we go:

As I did mention in the BOT, it was opened in 1955, after Bob Bryant had a falling out with Trader Vic (which I am sure was not hard to do with the ol' hard ass). The Trader had hired him away from the Matson Line (or was it Lurline?) when he met him aboard on one of his Hawaii trips.

The Lurline was a ship in the Matson Line fleet, so one and the same.

I noticed that Trader Vic in his autobiography mentions that Bob Bryant was a childhood friend from grammar school in Oakland. He talks about them as children, but never says anything else about what later happened. I was surprised that he mentioned him at all, if the falling out was so bad ("Bob is dead to me!"), but maybe he'd gone all soft in his old age and forgiven him.

Nah, that can't be it.