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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Aug 5, 2002 7:45 PM Gecko, what a nice, complete response! Now THAT is a Tiki Centralite! Regarding the Donn Beach material, I am all over that one, brah!: On 2002-08-05 17:01, GECKO TIKI wrote: I bet she has some awsome pictures that would blow us all away! Maybe I can start a book and you can do the dam grammar! other wise it would be in piegon! Let me get a hold of her and see what she say's about getting some copies of some pictures and whatever else. Email me cuz I'm serious. Mahalo.[ ] ...that writer did not have to do much research for that one, cuz earlier this year Phoebe Beach and her now husband Arnold Bittner published a Don the Beachcomber drink/bio book with lots of great vintage photos from her files. Unfortunatley they called it "HAWAI'I -tropical rumdrinks and cuisine by Don the Beachcomber" and gave it a cover as generic as the title. And they used a bunch of generic non-specific Tikis and mugs for illustrations of the 80s "food photography". I guess I am jealous at all the great vintage photos they used, but they truly missed a great opportunity by never pointing out that Don's recipes had NEVER BEFORE been PUBLISHED. Now I can't state that for MY Don the Beachcomber book anymore....: I have a contact to CARLA Beachcomber (legal name), his life companion in Waikiki thru the 50s and 60s. Off course SHE tells me Phoebe only spent his last few years with Don and knows nada!...you know how the women are. I am trying to figure out how I can get material from BOTH without pissing the other off. Maybe you should give it a go. The book is published with Mutual Publishing in Honululu, 808/ 732-17 09 [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-08-05 19:48 ]

Gecko, what a nice, complete response! Now THAT is a Tiki Centralite!
Regarding the Donn Beach material, I am all over that one, brah!:

On 2002-08-05 17:01, GECKO TIKI wrote:
I bet she has some awsome pictures that would blow us all away! Maybe I can start a book and you can do the dam grammar! other wise it would be in piegon! Let me get a hold of her and see what she say's about getting some copies of some pictures and whatever else. Email me cuz I'm serious. Mahalo.[ ]

...that writer did not have to do much research for that one, cuz earlier this year Phoebe Beach and her now husband Arnold Bittner published a Don the Beachcomber drink/bio book with lots of great vintage photos from her files. Unfortunatley they called it "HAWAI'I -tropical rumdrinks and cuisine by Don the Beachcomber" and gave it a cover as generic as the title. And they used a bunch of generic non-specific Tikis and mugs for illustrations of the 80s "food photography".

I guess I am jealous at all the great vintage photos they used, but they truly missed a great opportunity by never pointing out that Don's recipes had NEVER BEFORE been PUBLISHED.

Now I can't state that for MY Don the Beachcomber book anymore....: I have a contact to CARLA Beachcomber (legal name), his life companion in Waikiki thru the 50s and 60s. Off course SHE tells me Phoebe only spent his last few years with Don and knows nada!...you know how the women are.

I am trying to figure out how I can get material from BOTH without pissing the other off. Maybe you should give it a go.

The book is published with Mutual Publishing in Honululu, 808/ 732-17 09

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-08-05 19:48 ]

Post #5166 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Aug 5, 2002 7:45 PM