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Searching For Don the Beachcomber On the 114th anniversary of Donn’s birth, I wanted to share some exciting news with

Here is another sample of Donn’s handwriting. I’m getting better at interpreting it mainly by virtue of knowing a lot

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There are various pages, some hand written, some typed, of notes by Donn on his life. The hand written ones

If the date is correct, this is before they were married. Box Six was the CEO of Continental Airlines and

Part of the archive was this script for Rudy Vallee‘s “The Drene Show” which was a 30 minute radio program

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This is one example from 1966 of the vision of Bob Van Dorpe and Herb Kane for the islands, in

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150 pounds of documents. It may not look like much, but it took me four and a half months to

1947 Buick Roadmaster convertible in Desert Tan. This is not Donn’s actual car.

When Donn was off at war, his friends sent him words of encouragement via signed publicity shots. I can read

Among the Phoebe Beach Archive are the notes and writings of her late husband Arnold Bitner, who wrote a biography