Post #222799 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 6:44 AM

The Connie cringe, I know...my friend Dug Miller once made a compilation tape of ALL musical numbers from all the performers (mostly Connie and Poncie), cut back to back. Kinda hard to watch, you gotta be hardcore H.E. obsessed. Off course, it has the famous Arthur Lyman peformance of "Taboo" at the Shell Bar on it. Unfortunately, they cut away from it after a few shots, arrgh!

My new book will have a photo I took of the Hawaiian Eye office sign in it, now in posession of Doug "Moke" Mossman, the "guard" and Hawaiian advisor on the show. He had also lifted the original logo Tiki off the studio lot when the show closed, but it has since rotted away in his yard in Waikiki. Also in the book: A cool photo of the cast of Surfside Six in the "Boom Boom Room", THEIR local Tiki Bar.

Kevin Kidney is the real Hawaiian Eye authority, he once bought soap from Connie Stevens in her store in Beverly Hills (wow!) and by now owns about 40 original 16mm network copies of the show. We were thinking about a H.E. festival sometime, with Connie as guest of honor....