Post #747532 by akjefferson on Mon, Jul 20, 2015 11:20 PM

Amazing...

As I am processing all of this, I see how the Hawaiian night club and the tiki bar scene in California inspired him as a musician, to sing and have his own band. It influenced him to later on, form his own family band. He sent me to bass guitar & guitar lessons, he sent my sister to drum lessons and sent both of us to hula lessons. My step mom had a beautiful voice she could harmonize to any song. Her and my dad sang perfect together, she also played the electric organ. He threw a few Luau's, he sold tickets and had a group of family members cater Hawaiian food. He decorated the Luau very similar to the pictures of the tiki bars & the Hawaiian floor show on your post and a few others, complete with a live band & dancing, the main event was a Hawaiian floor show complete with hula dancers, Tahitian dancers and men's fire dancers. My father had a collection of Lava rocks from Hawaii that he used to Kalua the pig for the Luau. Although, he didn't talk about carving tiki's in California, he lived his experiences with us...

Aloha & Mahalo

Andrea Bumatay-Jefferson
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