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Name:Kauai Restaurant & Lounge Description: Daytona Beach Morning Journal August 1, 1969 It came to an unseemly end in 1970 via IRS seizure... Daytona Beach Morning Journal December 11, 1970 -Tom |
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Another ad from the Kauai restaurant advertising catering services to host a luau at your house. Sunday Luau special. The acts, Kalani and the Kamainas with Napua and Teva. There was another Kauai in Miami Beach. Pronounced Cow-Eye?? DC |
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One more ad, this time the featured act was Prince Nakai and the Hawaiian Revue. These acts really did roam all over the Florida coast back in the day. DC |
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Sun, Oct 19, 2014 3:30 PM
Great work, DC! I'm looking forward to sharing a bit more about this place in the next issue of Tiki Magazine & More; there are connections to other threads... -Tom |
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Mon, Nov 30, 2015 4:48 PM
I picked up a Daytona Beach guide book from 1969 that had some nice images from the Kauai Restaurant. First up, the full page add with a nice shot of the building and the parking lot sign. The Kauai restaurant was owned by the Polynesian dancers Teva and Napua. Here is the restaurant review and building photo.
A cool find if I do say so myself. DC |
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Mon, Nov 30, 2015 5:25 PM
Another great contribution, DC! The owners of Kauai Restaurant and Lounge were Teva and Napua Lucas, husband and wife. Teva Lucas was Tahitian and performed as a fire knife dancer at the Hotel Lexington Hawaiian Room (was married to Gloria (Manu) Kanemura while there), then later appeared at the Yankee Clipper Polynesian Room, Mai-Kai and a number of Miami Beach hotels including the Sans Souci, Versailles, Casablanca, Deauville and Sherry Frontenac. Ultimately, Teva and Napua ended up at Tiki Gardens in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida. There, Teva was the restaurant manager at Trader Franks, assisted by Napua. -Tom |
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