Blowfish Bar – Flagler Beach, FL - Home Tiki Bars

T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Sun, Oct 14, 2012 8:27 AM Mahalo to all for expressing your sentiments on the loss of Ben Charred Tiki. I’m convinced there will be appropriate payback in life for the perpetrators. But it’s time to move on in our own life… Alfie, delighted you dropped in. I look forward to our next soiree at Vintage 56, where we may once again enjoy your most excellent crooning. Wendy, I agree. I’m going to have to acquire a matching Fisherman’s God Tiki mug when Robert has declared it ready for prime time. I was grateful when Bamboo Ben agreed to go through the hassle of shipping one of his Tapa Cloth Outrigger Canoes across the country. It arrived perfectly intact, given that it was encased in enough Styrofoam packing peanuts to ship Ben himself. I now have a Tapa Cloth Canoe hanging above my desk, where in the words of the master, it lends a “nice Tiki Tiki feel”… The modern sport of outrigger canoeing involves one of my favorite Hawaiian historical figures and athletes, Duke Kahanamoku. In 1917, he joined the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki Beach, an organization initially established in 1908 as “a place where man may commune with sun and sand and sea, where good fellowship and aloha prevail and where the sports of old Hawaii shall always have a home.” Duke remained actively involved with the club until his death in 1968. The club still exists today and its story is told here. Here is Duke Kahanamoku with Babe Ruth in front of an outrigger canoe on Waikiki Beach in October of 1933… In one of history’s odd connections, the birth of beach volleyball occurred at the Outrigger Canoe Club. According to this web site, Duke Kahanamoku, “because of his exceptional athleticism, was the first to make beach volleyball a rugged sports activity rather than a leisurely way to pass the time away on the beach. Duke would jump to unmatched levels and spike the ball down at extraordinary angles. The Duke also made sure that the volleyball nets, at the Beach Club, were always properly taut. He is also credited to be the first to "spike" the corners of the rope lines on the Santa Monica courts.” -Tom

Mahalo to all for expressing your sentiments on the loss of Ben Charred Tiki. I’m convinced there will be appropriate payback in life for the perpetrators. But it’s time to move on in our own life…

Alfie, delighted you dropped in. I look forward to our next soiree at Vintage 56, where we may once again enjoy your most excellent crooning.

Wendy, I agree. I’m going to have to acquire a matching Fisherman’s God Tiki mug when Robert has declared it ready for prime time.

I was grateful when Bamboo Ben agreed to go through the hassle of shipping one of his Tapa Cloth Outrigger Canoes across the country. It arrived perfectly intact, given that it was encased in enough Styrofoam packing peanuts to ship Ben himself. I now have a Tapa Cloth Canoe hanging above my desk, where in the words of the master, it lends a “nice Tiki Tiki feel”…

The modern sport of outrigger canoeing involves one of my favorite Hawaiian historical figures and athletes, Duke Kahanamoku. In 1917, he joined the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki Beach, an organization initially established in 1908 as “a place where man may commune with sun and sand and sea, where good fellowship and aloha prevail and where the sports of old Hawaii shall always have a home.” Duke remained actively involved with the club until his death in 1968. The club still exists today and its story is told here.

Here is Duke Kahanamoku with Babe Ruth in front of an outrigger canoe on Waikiki Beach in October of 1933…

In one of history’s odd connections, the birth of beach volleyball occurred at the Outrigger Canoe Club. According to this web site, Duke Kahanamoku, “because of his exceptional athleticism, was the first to make beach volleyball a rugged sports activity rather than a leisurely way to pass the time away on the beach. Duke would jump to unmatched levels and spike the ball down at extraordinary angles. The Duke also made sure that the volleyball nets, at the Beach Club, were always properly taut. He is also credited to be the first to "spike" the corners of the rope lines on the Santa Monica courts.”

-Tom

Post #655466 by TikiTomD on Sun, Oct 14, 2012 8:27 AM