Sam Taub: Heart and Soul of Hawaiian Village - General Tiki

S senioraqua Member Tampa, FL Joined: Jul 11, 2004 Posts: 408	S senioraqua Posted posted on Thu, May 14, 2009 2:25 PM After the flurry of Florida research by Mo-Eye, seemed it was time to get off my keister and get more involved with researching Tampa's Hawaiian Village. I knew the late Sam Taub ran the place and his partners have since passed away. I was able to find his son Ted Taub, who is a practicing real estate attorney in Tampa. He was gracious enough to meet with me and was more than happy to talk about HV and his dad. From HV drink menu, Sam's signature drink (even though he was a Scotch drinker): [ Edited by: senioraqua 2013-02-19 07:35 ]
B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, May 14, 2009 5:45 PM The naming of the drink after Taub is truly ...funky --since we know who it was named after originally :) : http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=29020&forum=10&vpost=392937 Taub sounds like a German name, too. So does Schmudde.

After the flurry of Florida research by Mo-Eye, seemed it was time to get off my keister and get more involved with researching
Tampa's Hawaiian Village. I knew the late Sam Taub ran the place and his partners have since passed away.
I was able to find his son Ted Taub, who is a practicing real estate attorney in Tampa. He was gracious enough to
meet with me and was more than happy to talk about HV and his dad.
From HV drink menu, Sam's signature drink (even though he was a Scotch drinker):

[ Edited by: senioraqua 2013-02-19 07:35 ]