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Tiki Central / General Tiki / Rise and Fall of Tiki feature in Wired magazine

Post #722654 by Limbo Lizard on Wed, Jul 16, 2014 8:49 AM

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Nice little article, but as we've come to expect, he forgivably gets several little details (important only to us fanatics!) wrong. But I chuckled, imagining some Tiki Centralites' blood pressure spiking, as they read this line, about Don the Beachcomber:

"Born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt, this proto-Jimmy Buffet left his Texas home in 1926, aged nineteen years, to begin a career as a bootlegger before a detour led him to explore Asia."