Post #786694 by HotelCharlieEcho on Wed, May 9, 2018 5:01 PM

On 2018-05-09 13:44, Cammo wrote:
The "Trader" you see scribbled all over the history of Tiki (Trader Vic's, Trader Sam's, Trader Mort's, etc...) is actually African Big Game Hunter in origin; lifted from the book and incredible 1931 film "Trader Horn" - which also started the whole Jungle/Tarzan/Hunter/Explorer/Hippo/Crocodile/Native Girl & Bikini fascination that still haunts us.

Cammo, wasn't the fictional character of the South Seas trader well known in literature long before Trader Horn came along? I seem to recall South Seas traders figured prominently in works by Robert Louis Stevenson, for example. Trader Horn itself was, as I recall, a film version of the "biography" of the real-life Trader Horn. And I think there were South Seas traders in films before 1931 also (see, for example, White Shadows in the South Seas from 1928).

Or are you just saying that "Trader [Name]" wasn't used before Trader Horn came out?