Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visiting a tiki bar, sipping a strong drink from a pineapple and donning a colorful Hawaiian shirt are all ingredients for ...

Donn Beach is the undisputed godfather of American tiki, which imitated – in a far different and more authentic way than we’re accustomed to today – the cultural iconography of tropical islands from ...

A new documentary explores the life of Donn Beach, the creator of a pop culture movement known as tiki that peaked in postwar America and is now seeing a revival of sorts. Alex Lamb, co-director of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all recognize the fancy cocktails with flourishes, bright floral clothing and kitschy, tropical decor but do you know where ...

If you’ve ever enjoyed a mai tai at UnderTow or a zombie at Hula’s Modern Tiki, you can thank Donn Beach. The late cocktail legend, born Ernest Gantt, is the father of the tiki bar and the subject of ...

A still from the film "The Donn Of Tiki" (Surf Monkey Films) Here’s a pretty mind-blowing fact about tiki bars: They were invented in 1930s California, then reimported to Hawaii for tourists who ...

“The Donn of Tiki,” is a documentary about Donn Beach — also known as Don the Beachcomber — and most notably, the creator of the Tiki bar. The James Beard Award-nominated film is on a summer roadshow ...

A new film "The Donn of Tiki" dives into the life of Donn Beach, aka the Beachcomber. His life and career inspired the tiki bar culture we know today.

Visiting a tiki bar, sipping a strong drink from a pineapple and donning a colorful Hawaiian shirt are all ingredients for instilling mental images of Hawaiian beaches or remote islands in Polynesia.

Click here for the original audio. A new documentary explores the life of Donn Beach, the creator of a pop culture movement known as tiki that peaked in postwar America and is now seeing a revival of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you've ever been to a tiki bar like San Francisco's Smuggler's Cove or the famed Tonga Room, you have one man to thank -- and he's probably not someone you've ever heard of ...

We all recognize the fancy cocktails with flourishes, bright floral clothing and kitschy, tropical decor but do you know where tiki culture began? It all starts with Donn Beach, aka Don the ...