by donnbeach | Dec 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Join me at Nor’easter Island February 5th weekend as I get into the history of Don the Beachcomber in LA in the 1930s and the mob, and then the next day I’ll cover Donn’s life in the 1940s. Donn Beach’s Wars at Home and Abroad: For Donn, the 1940s...
by donnbeach | Jul 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Donn’s secret ingredients #2, #4, and #7 (also #8!) have been a secret for nearly a century. When he created the Zombie in 1934 (with the help of Cora “Sunny” Sund) he used #4. It was Bob Van Dorpe, first general manager of the Mai-Kai, and former...
by donnbeach | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Swanky, in cooperation with BG Reynolds, is producing Don the Beachcomber’s secret cocktail mixers. Coming in fall/winter of 2025, the secret ingredients for the Zombie, Nui Nui and others will be available to the public for the first time...
by donnbeach | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
The man, the myth, the legend’s story continues in 2024 with Swanky’s biography, The Donn of Tiki film, and the new Don the Beachcomber restaurants, and much...
by donnbeach | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Alma Ross, Barbara Britton, Juna Haver, Bob Stack, photographer Paul Hesse, band leader Dave Rose and his girlfriend Betty Bartholomew, and a bit of Frank Morgan, the Wizard of Oz and Angostura bitters man, await the preparation of the kalua pig fresh from the imu at...
