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," delves into the advent, the appeal, the aesthetic of the tiki bar movement and the enigmatic man who started it all right here in L.A.Tiki bars have a simple formula — low-hanging thatched roofs, tropical fruit drinks with umbrellas in them, and inspired carvings of Polynesian deities flanking the perimeter.
Donn the Beachcomber, née Earnest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, opened the first tiki bar in Hollywood, California at 1727 McCadden Place. The year was 1937 and Donn had been working as a bartender at theYears before his tiki oasis came to fruition, Donn was traveling to remote parts of the world where the dream was born.
"The odd thing about tiki now is that it's really a copy of a copy of a copy of what this one guy Donn did.""When you look at tiki historically, it seems to always come back after horrible things happen because people are trying to escape that," Lamb said. "I think the craft cocktail movement of the early 2000s really helped bring back a resurgence of tiki," says Lamb. As bartenders started researching cocktails, they'd come across Donn the Beachcomber. Lamb goes on to say that Donn is the first person we know of who was mixing all kinds of rum and fresh juices together.
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