Post #690418 by Pitcairn on Fri, Aug 16, 2013 6:28 PM

This has me thinking of a velvet artist named David Voss who I think is still alive and living in Honolulu. Years ago BigBro and Tikinews did a piece on him and I looked him up on my next visit to the islands. I met him at the fence of the Honolulu zoo where he was selling his wares. He talked quite a bit about his relationship with Donn Beach and how Donn wanted his paintings in his restaurants instead of Leetegs as those were so expensive to insure. Apparently Mr.Voss endeared himself to Mr.Beach by doing a painting of Donn's wife. This is what he told me. Anyways, I guess there are a precious few of these folks left but like the WWII generation they won't be for much longer.