Donn Blog

The mugs are running a bit late. I thought they would be done by early April, but issues at Eekum Bookum, including having to move to a new production facility, have slowed things a bit. I think they will be finished by the end of the month, but they have to get from...

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https://youtube.com/shorts/AIEts0sehMc?feature=share 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...

https://youtube.com/shorts/AIEts0sehMc?feature=share 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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYGFF2TrAU4&list=PLHyQ4MoyfQhmBalr1Ubq6Tyq7Zn4GYXhj&index=15 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 more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruSUiX6AmiU&list=PLHyQ4MoyfQhmBalr1Ubq6Tyq7Zn4GYXhj&index=14 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...

The Gardiners and the Skeltons at Donn's Full Moon party 1946 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpzIRAQ3so&list=PLHyQ4MoyfQhmBalr1Ubq6Tyq7Zn4GYXhj&index=12