Post #654807 by Phillip Roberts on Sun, Oct 7, 2012 11:49 PM

Aloha,
Virani wrote...

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/17/food/fo-13069

it says :

In 1934, when he opened his original Don the Beachcomber bar in Hollywood (it started serving Chinese food in 1937), he'd never been to the South Pacific

That is ABSURD to infer Donn was NOT in the South Pacific before 1934...

Donn's Obituary by Bob Krauss...(SB 6/7/89)

• He visited Hawaii in 1929 en route to Tahiti...*

Further more... obit 2- "A Man of the Tropics" by Ronn Ronck - (Honolulu Advertiser 6/14/89)

He first visited the South Pacific in 1929 while crewing on a 120 foot yacht. They stopped at Honolulu and Papeete Tahiti before delivering the yacht to it's owner in Sydney."

I have some other earlier articles as well that refer to the 1929 trip as well and will dig then out later...

Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs.
Available now from Bess Press Hawaii.

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2012-10-07 23:51 ]