by donnbeach | Feb 20, 2021 | Donn's History, People, Waikiki Restaurant
I started with this photo and the scribbling on the back: From the Phoebe Beach Archive This photo was taken at about the opening on the Colonel’s Plantation Steakhouse. Scrawled on the back of it was this: I gave up on figuring it out and posted on Facebook...
by donnbeach | Feb 16, 2021 | Donn's History, Locations, Waikiki Restaurant
From the Phoebe Beach Archve Here it is under construction. from the Phoebe Beach Archive Donn’s original Hawaii location was pure Polynesian fantasy. Thatch roof, lauhala, pandamas. From the Phoebe Beach Archive It was described to me as coming right up to the...
by donnbeach | Feb 14, 2021 | Celebrities, Donn's History, People, Waikiki Restaurant
From the Phoebe Beach Archive That’s Waltah with the gourd. He’s the guy who “occupied the third umbrella from the left,” on the beach at Waikiki.Desert Sun 1955 Waltah was a beach boy at heart. Mike Skinner tells the tale in his presentation: His obituary in...
by donnbeach | Feb 13, 2021 | Celebrities, Donn's History, People, Waikiki Restaurant
From the Phoebe Beach Archive Actress and Big Band Singer Janet Blair visits Donn along with her second husband, tv producer Nick Mayo. they married in 1952, so this is 1952 or later. In 1950, Blair took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the U.S touring production of...
by donnbeach | Feb 13, 2021 | Celebrities, Donn's History, People, Waikiki Restaurant
Noted for his syndicated column The Lyons Den in the New York Post, he was a world traveler. Wikipedia page: Leonard Lyons NEW YORK – 1954: Marilyn Monroe with newspaper columnist Leonard Lyons at Sardi’s Restaurant in 1954 in New York, New York. (Photo by...
by donnbeach | Feb 12, 2021 | Celebrities, Donn's History, People, Waikiki Restaurant
From the Phoebe Beach Archive Irving Berlin visits Don the Beachcomber’s in Waikiki December 1950. Note everyone is drinking out of actual bamboo. Irving and Ellin Their marriage between a Jew and Catholic caused a stir. They were married 63 years. His Wiki...
