Post #323462 by telescopes on Sun, Aug 5, 2007 9:43 PM

On 2007-08-05 18:49, arriano wrote:
While we're on the subject...two questions came to mind today while I was reading "Sippin' Safari":

1. Why "Don the Beachcomber"? Why not "Sam the Beachcomber" or "Ted the Beachcomber" -- or for that matter "Ernie the Beachcomber"? Why did Ernest Gantt choose the name Don?

2. Why when Ernest changed his name did he spell Donn with two "n's" rather than one as it was in the restaurant name?

Inquiring mind wants to know.

It's Donn, as in the Godfather. That's what his early regulars referred to him as... Remember all the talk about being a bootlegger, etc.

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

[ Edited by: telescopes 2007-08-05 21:44 ]