Post #627905 by Dustycajun on Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:38 PM

Mangogirl,

That is a great menu, thanks for posting. There is a thread started by Bifcozz in Locating Tiki for The Skipper, you should post those photos there as well.

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22555&forum=2&hilite=skipper

Bifcozz acquired a treasure trove of items from the Skipper Kent estate and listed this time-line of the various restaurants he was involved in:

Frank Kent started the skipper, 3253 adeline st south berkley california with frank bilek

He started the zombie village may 12th 1942 with hafe hafer.

he next started skipper kents we are not sure of the date.

He also started the West indies reno nevado.

next he started the polynesian room at the edgewaterbeach hotel dec 31st 1954

He also had correspondence with the Marmonte hotel chain in santa barbara california about doing skipper kents as a chain.

After he started the Polynesian room at the edgewaterbeach hotel he went on to start the polynesian room at the sommerset hotel in boston.

After that we have cost analysis at 6 different sheraton hotels for doing a skipper kents resturants in the sheraton hotel chain which he ended up giving to steve crane.

Beacause at the same time he was doing this His real estate agent in Hawaii contacted him and told him about a 14.65 acre piece of land was available on the kona coast on the big island of Hawaii. He apparently decided to pursue his dream of the ultamate resort on Hawaii and passed on the sheraton offer. and concentrated on developing his land on the kona coast of which we have the original prospectus of the property.

You can read more here.

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=34213&forum=2&vpost=513023&hilite=skipper

Look forward to more of your posts!

DC