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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Jul 6, 2008 8:11 AM On 2008-07-05 21:40, Dustycajun wrote: Christian's Hut Was A Big Draw For The Hollywood Set Because It Was Owned By The Brother Of One Of Hollywood's Biggest Cinematographers. In the late 1930s, Art La Shelle opened Christian's Hut, a Tahitian style restaurant and bar on the bay front, Scott, THANK YOU! One more mystery cleared up! So there WAS a Hollywood family connection to the owner: Not an agent, but a cinematographer! Today I tried to find a link between Joe La Shelle and the original film version of "Mutiny of The Bounty" (1935), but no luck. This is why I thought he should have been part of the film's crew: As I wrote in the Book of Tiki, Christian's Hut originated at the Isthmus on Catalina Island, where all the Island footage for "The Bounty" was shot (just like for "The Hurricane" two years later). Clark Gable, who played Fletcher CHRISTIAN had his sleeping quarters above the room that became the crew's watering hole, so it was named "Christian's Hut". It stayed open after the film, and Ray Buhen worked there as a bartender in his youth (see photo with him on the right under the sign that says "proprietor Clark Gable" on page 16 of Sippin' Safari). Here is a link about the place: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=28251&forum=2 From Balboa and Laguna Christian's Hut tried to branch out to Waikiki and San Diego. When the San Diego location failed, its manager Tom Hamm took it over and turned it into the BALI HAI. To this day we do not know how the Christian's Hut logo of "The Goof" originated! Who will find THAT out!?: Maybe Joe's brother Art was the caterer on "The Bounty"? Joe La Shelle is credited with two island location pictures among his long list of Hollywood movies, one at the beginning of his career as a camera operator with 29, "The Pagan", (which introduced the "Pagan Love Song"), shot in Tahiti (!), and one at the end, when he was 68, called "Kona Coast", shot in Hawaii. That one sounds very intriguing, check out its tag line: THE KONA COAST --1968 -- IT'S WHERE IT'S AT... The action, the adventure, the excitement of a turned-on world that can't turn itself off! Her name was Woman... Her other name was Excitement. She belonged to Hawaii's Kona Coast like the surf riders and the beach bums!

On 2008-07-05 21:40, Dustycajun wrote:
Christian's Hut Was A Big Draw For The Hollywood Set Because It Was Owned By The Brother Of One Of Hollywood's Biggest Cinematographers.
In the late 1930s, Art La Shelle opened Christian's Hut, a Tahitian style restaurant and bar on the bay front,

Scott, THANK YOU!
One more mystery cleared up! So there WAS a Hollywood family connection to the owner: Not an agent, but a cinematographer! Today I tried to find a link between Joe La Shelle and the original film version of "Mutiny of The Bounty" (1935), but no luck. This is why I thought he should have been part of the film's crew:

As I wrote in the Book of Tiki, Christian's Hut originated at the Isthmus on Catalina Island, where all the Island footage for "The Bounty" was shot (just like for "The Hurricane" two years later). Clark Gable, who played Fletcher CHRISTIAN had his sleeping quarters above the room that became the crew's watering hole, so it was named "Christian's Hut". It stayed open after the film, and Ray Buhen worked there as a bartender in his youth (see photo with him on the right under the sign that says "proprietor Clark Gable" on page 16 of Sippin' Safari). Here is a link about the place:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=28251&forum=2

From Balboa and Laguna Christian's Hut tried to branch out to Waikiki and San Diego. When the San Diego location failed, its manager Tom Hamm took it over and turned it into the BALI HAI. To this day we do not know how the Christian's Hut logo of "The Goof" originated! Who will find THAT out!?:

Maybe Joe's brother Art was the caterer on "The Bounty"? Joe La Shelle is credited with two island location pictures among his long list of Hollywood movies, one at the beginning of his career as a camera operator with 29, "The Pagan", (which introduced the "Pagan Love Song"), shot in Tahiti (!), and one at the end, when he was 68, called "Kona Coast", shot in Hawaii. That one sounds very intriguing, check out its tag line:

THE KONA COAST --1968 --

IT'S WHERE IT'S AT... The action, the adventure, the excitement of a turned-on world that can't turn itself off!
Her name was Woman... Her other name was Excitement. She belonged to Hawaii's Kona Coast like the surf riders and the beach bums!

Post #391913 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jul 6, 2008 8:11 AM