Donn Beach (born Ernest Raymond Gantt; February 22, 1907 – June 7, 1989) was an American adventurer, businessman, and World War II veteran who was the "founding father" of tiki culture. He is known for opening the first prototypical tiki bar, Don the Beachcomber, during the 1930s in Hollywood, California, which was expanded to a chain of dozens of restaurants throughout the United States. He later built the International Market Place and additional establishments in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. He married three times.
DonnBeach (born Ernest Raymond Gantt; February 22, 1907 – June 7, 1989) was an American adventurer, businessman, and World War II veteran who was the...
poet H.D. that gardenias were his favorite flower. In Tiki culture, "DonnBeach", aka Don the Beachcomber, frequently wore a fresh lei of gardenias almost...
probably first introduced to restaurants on the United States mainland by DonnBeach in 1934. It has since become a standard at most Polynesian-themed restaurants...
Hollywood in 1933 by Ernest Gantt (who later legally changed his name to "DonnBeach"). The bar served a wide variety of exotic rum drinks (including the Sumatra...
Sumatra Kula (a.k.a. Sumatra cooler) is a vintage tiki cocktail invented by DonnBeach that calls for light rum, equal parts orange, lime and white grapefruit...
fassionola is unclear but is closely associated with DonnBeach (AKA Don the Beachcomber). Beach cites his childhood as growing up near New Orleans, and...
Queen’s Hospital being named in her honor as part of her charitable legacy. DonnBeach moved to Honolulu in the mid-1950s before Hawaii had become a state and...
Trader Vic's forerunner, DonnBeach, claimed to have instead first created it in 1933, although a longtime colleague said that Beach was actually just alleging...
to Don the Beachcomber, and Beaumont-Gantt legally changed his name to DonnBeach. His restaurant featured Cantonese cuisine and exotic rum cocktails and...
served in many so-called tiki restaurants and bars. First created by DonnBeach, who almost single-handedly originated the tiki cultural fad of the 1940s...
exactly when the cocktail umbrella came into use. One possible source is DonnBeach, owner of the Hollywood, California-based restaurant and bar chain Don...
Hotel's famous guests: Lauren Bacall Tallulah Bankhead John Barrymore DonnBeach Lucius Beebe Robert Benchley Humphrey Bogart Clara Bow Louis Bromfield...
Command of the West Compound at Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp DonnBeach (1907–1989), born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt, founder of Don the Beachcomber...
Roads, the roadstead which enabled the town's growth in the 19th century. DonnBeach and Pete Wimberly played an important early role in establishing building...
81, Indian last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the state of Dungarpur. DonnBeach, 82, American adventurer, businessman and World War II veteran, liver...
Chris Barron (1968), vocalist with Spin Doctors, born at Pearl Harbor DonnBeach, restaurateur of Don the Beachcomber tiki restaurant, died in Honolulu...
dates from 1949, making it the earliest-known tiki mug in the world. DonnBeach, the father of Tiki, did not originally serve his drinks in ceramic vessels...
Beachcomber, a Chinese food restaurant themed to the tiki bar chain created by DonnBeach Schwab's Pharmacy, a sandwich shop based on the pharmacy of the same name...
head bartender for more than thirty years. Along with Ernest Gantt ("DonnBeach") and Victor Jules Bergeron ("Trader Vic"), Yee did much to popularize...
proving experimental aircraft Test Pilot (cocktail), a 1933 tiki drink by DonnBeach Test Pilot (film) a 1938 film about test pilots with Clark Gable, Myrna...
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