Post #771885 by Club Nouméa on Tue, Jan 10, 2017 5:39 PM

Hello Hope Chest!

Thanks for all that background info and what a great image! :)

Alex Stergios definitely worked at the Yacht Club. I have two references placing him there: The first is George Farwell in his book "Last Days In Paradise", who lived in Tahiti in the 1930s and says that the Yacht Club was around the corner from the Cercle Bougainville, and that the Yacht Club was where he met Alex Stergios "in crisp white jacket, dispensing his mysterious rainbow cocktails" (p.29).

This collection of ephemera on-line also specifically links him to the Tahiti Yacht Club in 1930: https://www.rabelaisbooks.com/pages/books/4894/alex-stergios-dick-gump/small-archive-of-items-related-to-classic-tiki-bartender-alex-stergios

(Interesting that Rabelais Books described him as a "classic tiki bartender", although he predates that whole scene...)

I look forward to seeing what else you can uncover about this fascinating guy. :)

The earliest known tiki mug: "Ruru and Weku", designed by Harry Hargreaves of Crown Lynn, New Zealand, 1949.

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2017-01-10 20:53 ]

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2017-01-10 20:54 ]