Seven Seas, Los Angeles, CA (bar) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 12:21 PM Well, those connections pretty much seal the fact that it's the same guy, whatever the reason for the spelling change, thank you. What I would give to have been at W. S. Van Dyke's party to see if the two Polynesian pop purveyors knew each other. Though they never worked together ( http://www.citwf.com/person206963.htm ), Van Dyke might have frequented the Seven Seas nightclub. I just came to Hollywood too late, all I got to do was a shoot a horrible B-movie with Drew Barrymore: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106753/fullcredits :) Hallor was also named in a 1929 breach-of-promise-suit that a young woman brought against the actor Maurice Costello, a silent-film star who was apparently one of Hallor's friends, and, incidentally, the great-grandfather of Drew Barrymore. So if we apply the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" rule, I am related to Ray Hallor/Haller :) But for the possibly true relation to W.S. Van Dyke: Not only did he direct the South Sea movie classic "White Shadows in the South Seas" (1928), which might have been the first Hollywood film to feature a Tiki: (which was based on a never since utilized Necker Island statue) ....but Van Dyke also discovered Ray Mala, first non-white Hollywood star (AND cinematographer!), and portrayer of South Seas natives (despite his being Eskimo) in such classics as "Robinson Crusoe on Clipper Island" (1936) Here the best segment from the series (note the early Tiki necklace, and the silly Pele idol): http://www.archive.org/details/robinson_crusoe_of_clipper_island_ep6?start=719.5 "Rani Rani, Melani !" :) But enough veering off from the main subject, I thought it would be interesting to delve a little into the pop cultural environment that Haller's/Brooks' Seven Seas club existed in. Now WHY and WHEN exactly did Bob Brooks take over?

Well, those connections pretty much seal the fact that it's the same guy, whatever the reason for the spelling change, thank you.

What I would give to have been at W. S. Van Dyke's party to see if the two Polynesian pop purveyors knew each other. Though they never worked together ( http://www.citwf.com/person206963.htm ), Van Dyke might have frequented the Seven Seas nightclub.
I just came to Hollywood too late, all I got to do was a shoot a horrible B-movie with Drew Barrymore:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106753/fullcredits :)

Hallor was also named in a 1929 breach-of-promise-suit that a young woman brought against the actor Maurice Costello, a silent-film star who was apparently one of Hallor's friends, and, incidentally, the great-grandfather of Drew Barrymore.

So if we apply the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" rule, I am related to Ray Hallor/Haller :)

But for the possibly true relation to W.S. Van Dyke: Not only did he direct the South Sea movie classic "White Shadows in the South Seas" (1928), which might have been the first Hollywood film to feature a Tiki:

(which was based on a never since utilized Necker Island statue)

....but Van Dyke also discovered Ray Mala, first non-white Hollywood star (AND cinematographer!), and portrayer of South Seas natives (despite his being Eskimo) in such classics as "Robinson Crusoe on Clipper Island" (1936)

Here the best segment from the series (note the early Tiki necklace, and the silly Pele idol):

http://www.archive.org/details/robinson_crusoe_of_clipper_island_ep6?start=719.5

"Rani Rani, Melani !" :)
But enough veering off from the main subject, I thought it would be interesting to delve a little into the pop cultural environment that Haller's/Brooks' Seven Seas club existed in. Now WHY and WHEN exactly did Bob Brooks take over?

Post #613620 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 12:21 PM