Post #646035 by Dustycajun on Sun, Jul 29, 2012 12:01 PM

I scored one of the drink menu table toppers that I had posted images of before. There was one more side of the menu that shows the Skipper Kent connection, his own drinks!

Skipper Kent's Grog and Skipper's Gold

And while we're on the subject of the Polynesian Village, how about this photo of Ramine, the dancing star form the Cinermera South Seas Adventure film with the head chef at the Polynesian Village.

How timely with the approaching showing of the movie in Hollywood.

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=43422&forum=17&hilite=south seas adventure

And lastly, one more little piece of history I found in my research. Skipper Kent's wife helped paint the walls at both the Boston and Chicago Polynesian Village establishments.

" Lucille Kent, wife of noted restaurateur Frank Skipper Kent, was an accomplished California painter, well known on the West Coast and in Hawaii. Her studies took her from San Francisco and Berkeley as far afield as Chicago, the Instituto at San Miguel Allende, and the Bellas Artes in Taxco Mexico. Kent studied under such noted artists as Thomas Leighton, Arthur Palmer, Peter Blos, Marques Reitzel, Joseph Bennet, Senor Pinto, Don James Oats, and Senor Fidel Figueroa.

In addition to many solo exhibitions, Mrs. Kent designed and helped to paint the Polynesian Village dining room and the banquet area of the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago, and a similar Polynesian Village in the Somerset Hotel in Boston. "

It boggles the mind to consider how different the Tiki scene would have been if the Kent's had not opted out for Hawaii.

DC