Six names of famous people

Hello everyone, my name is Basil, I'm french bartender.
I need your help, I participate in a national competition cocktail, the Tiki theme, and they ask me six names of famous people in the history of Tiki.
I know that Ernest and Vic ... help me if you like it !!

Basile

Stephen Crane - Luau Restaurant, Kon Tiki Restaurants, Ports o Call Restaurants

Jack and Bob Thornton - the Mai Kai Restaurant

Bill Sapp and Lee Henry - Kahiki Restaurant

Hop Louie - Stockton Islander, Latitude 20, Minnie's

Skipper Kent - Skipper Kent's, Zombie Village, The Skipper, Polynesian Village

Sven Kirsten - Inventor of "Tiki Pop" and father of the modern Tiki revival

DC

Thor Heyerdahl
Edward m. Brownlee
Bamboo Ben

Earnest Raymond Beaumont Gant - aka Donn Beach or Don The Beachcomber

• Jeff "Beachbum" Berry -- author of several books that started the tiki cocktail revival craze and proprietor of Latitude 29

• Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny and Les Baxter -- the "big three" of exotica music

• Harry Yee -- inventor of the Blue Hawaii, Tropical Itch, Hawaiian Eye and Banana Daiquiri cocktails

• Ray Buhen -- Bartender at many, many tiki bars in the 1930s - 1950s, and then proprietor of his own Tiki Ti

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Ren Clark

LeRoy Schmaltz and Robert Van Oosting, owners of Oceanic Arts in Whittier, California. They have been building tropical oasis' since 1956. Many of the beloved tiki bars and restaurants are outfitted with items from Oceanic Arts. Even resorts in Polynesia have asked them to carve tikis.

Bosko Hrnjak-tiki artist and one of the father's of the tiki revival.

Vintage Tiki Carvers:
Eli Hedley
Richard Ellis
Milan Guanko
Andres Bumatay

Otto Von Stroheim, tiki enthusiast and co-founder of Tiki Oasis!
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On 2014-11-19 20:16, Sunny&Rummy wrote:
Vintage Tiki Carvers:
Eli Hedley
Richard Ellis
Milan Guanko
Andres Bumatay

Ben got on this list before Eli Hedley, was going to add Eli's name myself.
Now don't get me wrong Ben does great work.
And Eli Hedley was more than just a carver as I think he did whole build outs of
old time tiki joints.
A book on Eli Hedley would be a fun read, Heck or at least a thread here on TC.

The Ebb and Flow of this tiki thing is really odd these days.
Here today gone tomorrow I guess.
But most tiki folks here are all about the past for the most part?

Maybe Emperor Hirohito should be here if not for the war Us soldier's would not
have gone to the South Pacific and fell in love with our American idea of what we call
tiki.
I know it's a Stretch.

While we are Stretching you could also add the Musical / Movie South Pacific.

These two things reached MANY people.
Have met people who do not know of Trader Vic's but try to find people who
don't know of Musical / Movie South Pacific.

Has Martin Cate somehow been left off the list this far?

If so. . . Martin Cate!

On 2014-11-20 06:24, tikiskip wrote:

A book on Eli Hedley would be a fun read, Heck or at least a thread here on TC.

There is a book about Eli Hedley, its called "How Daddy Became Beachcomber" by Marilyn Hedley.

On 2014-11-20 08:02, MaukaHale wrote:

On 2014-11-20 06:24, tikiskip wrote:
A book on Eli Hedley would be a fun read, Heck or at least a thread here on TC.

There is a book about Eli Hedley, its called "How Daddy Became Beachcomber" by Marilyn Hedley.

Yes, I have read that one, Great book it is!
Wonder where Bungy is?
Did read Bungy's book too.

I should have said another book.
Would like to know what tiki joints he worked on, dates ect.

How about William Westenhaver and the Witco brand.

Thx you all, for your help.
Bisous :)