Don the Beachcomber — The Man Who Invented Tiki Culture
In this week’s episode of Into the Barchive, Blake and Tim continue their tropical and tiki cocktail series with the man who helped create tiki culture itself: Don the Beachcomber.
Before he became a cocktail legend, Don was Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt, a Texas-born adventurer, rum runner, Hollywood consultant, and world traveler who turned his experiences into something America had never seen before. Blake and Tim explore how Don opened Don’s Beachcomber Cafe in Hollywood in 1934, creating an immersive escape filled with bamboo, fishing nets, carved idols, dim lighting, and a sense of…
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