by donnbeach | Feb 22, 2021 | Entertainers, People, Waikiki Restaurant
From the Phoebe Beach Archive Left to right is Joe Custino on steel, Simeon Bright on guitar, Mel Peterson on uke, and Eddie Spencer on bass. Joe’s wife Lani was a dancer at Don’s. Check out this video of her and Ed Kinney. And of course what are likely a...
by donnbeach | Feb 21, 2021 | Donn's History, Entertainers, People
From the Phoebe Beach Archive She is center above performing at Don the Beachcomber circa...
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 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...
