ON THIS DAY IN TIKI HISTORY

1974 (2019)

HOTEL BORA BORA—TAHITI, PETE WEMBERLY ARCHITECT

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Nat. Hangover Day

Samoan Independence

Day—1962

New Years Day

2

Drink straw patented -

1888

3 4 5

6 7

8 9

Marvin Chin born—

1924

Bob Denver

“Gilligan” born 1935

10 11 12

13

Kon Tiki movie

released—1950

14 15 16

Pete Wembery born—

1924

17

Hot Buttered

Rum Day

18

Capt James Cook

arrives in Hawaii—

1778

19

20 21

Martin Luther

King Day

22

Duke Kahanamoku

dies—1968

Leon Lontoc

dies - 1974

23 24 25 26

27 28 29

30

Kon Tiki Tucson

opens—1962

31

January 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

MOON ISLANDER—TITUSVILLE FL

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Arthur Lyman born—

1933

2

Eldon Davis born—

1917

3 4 5

Moon Lueg born—

1908

6

Waitangi Day

(New Zealand)

7 Stephen Crane

born—1916

Edgar Leeteg dies–

1953

Pisco Sour day

8

Ports O'Call Long

Beach opens—1961

9

10 11

Tina Louise,

Gilligan’s “Ginger”

born 1934

12

Charles McKirahan

dies—1964

13 14

Death of Capt James

Cook Hawaii—1779

Valentine’s Day

15 16

17 18

President’s Day

19 20

Mt Gay founded 1703

The Tahitian Studio

City opens—1959

Kahiki opens—1961

21Hangover helper

Alka Seltzer

introduced—1931

Waikiki Minneapolis

opens—1953

22

Ernest Gantt (Don the

Beachcomber) born—

1907

23

24 25

Jim Backus “Thurston

Howell III” born 1913

26 27

National Kahlua Day

28

February 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

Don the Beachcomber

Palm Springs opens—

1953

3 4

Trade Winds Oxnard

opens—1964

5

National Absinthe

Day

Missionary Day

(French Polynesia)

6

Molokai Bar at Mai

Kai opens—1958

7 8

Alan Hale, Gilligan’s

“Skipper” born 1921

9

10

Daylight Savings

Starts

11 12 13

Wesley Herron born

- 1919

14

Lex Baxter born—

1922

Sandy Warner born—

1935

15 16

17

Pirates of the Carib-

bean opens—1967

St Patrick’s Day

18 19

Havana Club intro-

duced—1934

South Pacific movie

released—1958

20

Charles McKirahan

born—1919

21 22 23

24

Nat. Cocktail

Day

25) 26

The Traders Chicago

opens –1957

Prince Kalanianaole

Day (Hawaii

27

Mr Magoo goes to

Hawaii—1961

28

Elmer Bachtold

born—1903

George Nakashima

born—1928

29

30

March 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

31

POLYNESIAN GIRL WITH COCONUT—EDGAR LEETEG

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

Last episode of

"Hawaiian Eye"

airs—1963

3 4 5

Capt Jacob

Roggeveen arrives in

Easter Island—1722

6

He Ke Lau opens

Chickopee, MA—1965

7 8 9 10

Martin Denny born—

1911

11 12 13

Edgar Leeteg born—

1904

Trader Vic's NY

Savoy opens—1958

14

Lewis VanDecar

born—1913

15

eden ahbez born—

1908

16 17

Final “Gilligan’s Is-

land episode—1967

18 19

Good Friday

20

Frank Walls born-

1919

Nat. Pineapple Up-

side Down Cake Day

21

Seattle Worlds Fair

opens—1962

Easter

22 23 24 25 26

Bobby Butago born—

1906

27

Magellan dies—1521

28

Kon Tiki sails from

Peru 1947

Tiki Ti opens—1961

29

Hilo Hut Palm

Springs opens—1959

30

April 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

LEI DAY

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Lei Day Hawaii

Don the Beachcomber

Chicago opens—1940

National Luau Month

2

Jack Thornton born–

1929

Scurvy Awareness

Day

3 4

Francis Cabang born

– 1911

5

Pago Pago Tucson

opens—1949

6

First Official

Aloha Friday—1966

7 8

Paul Gauguin dies—

1903

9

Facundo Bacardi

dies—1886

Leland Henry born—

1930

10 11

12

Mother’s Day

13

Skipper Kent's Zombie

Village opens—1942

World Cocktail Day

14 15 16 17 18

19

20

Lanai San Mateo

opens—1959

21

Hawaiian Luau New

Orleans opens - 1963

22 23 24 25

26

Don the Beachcomber

Hollywood opens—

1937

Lamprey Appreciation

27

Memorial Day

28 29 30 31

May 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

OCEANIC ARTS—WHITTIER CALIF WILLIAM WESTENHAVER

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2 3 4

Tonga Emancipation

1862

5 6

William Westenhaver

born—1925

7

Paul Gauguin

born—1848

8

Name Your

Poison Day

9

Dan Blanding

dies—1957

National Gin Day

10

11

Kamehameha Day

(Hawaii)

12 13 14

Bill Sapp born

The Grass Shack

burns down—1959

Nat. Bourbon Day

15

16

Father’s Day

17

Clifton’s Pacific Seas

closes—1960

18

Milan Guanko

born—1906

19 20

Ren Clark's

Polynesian Village

opens—1960

21

Herb Kane born—

1928

Summer Solstice

22

23August Holland

born—1928

Samoa rest. Cocoa

Beach opens—1960

Enchanted Tiki Room

opens—1963

24

Royal Tahitian

Ontario opens—1961

25

Oceanic Arts opens—

1956

26 27

Tur Maikai Kalama-

zoo opens—1969

National Pineapple

Day

28

29

The Hawaiian

restaurant Long

Beach closes —1969

30 Ralph Tyree born—1921 Nat. Mai Tai Day

June 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

BLACK TOT DAY

KONA KAI PHILADELPHIA

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

“Hawaii Calls" first

broadcast—1935

Mainlander rest. St.

Louis opens—1962

4

Islands Phoenix

opens—1958

Independence Day

5

Spam production

begins—1937

6

7

Ben Wilson born—

1929

8 9 10

Pub Tiki Philadelphia

opens—1961

National Pina

Colada Day

11

Tahitian Village

Downey opens—1961

National Mojito Day

12 13 Kona Kai

Philadelphia opens—

1961

Elmer Bachtold dies—

1970

14

National Grand

Marnier Day

15 Hop Louie's Lati-

tude 20 Torrance

opens—1966

“South Seas Adven-

ture” Premiers 1958

16

Orange Chicken Day

(yesterday)

17 18 19

National Daiquiri

Day

20

21

22

National Mango Day

23

Tiki Jo restaurant

Santa Monica opens—

1959

24 25

Beverly Hills Luau

opens—1953

26 27

28

The Hawaiian

restaurant Long

Beach opens—1955

29

Ports O'Call Dallas

opens—1960

30 31

Black Tot Day—1970

July 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

MARIANO LICUDINE, THE

HOUDINI OF LIQUIDS

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

4

Cook Islands become

self governing—1965

5 6

Kon Tiki Ports

Chicago opens—1962

7

Kon Tiki arrives

Tuamotu Islands—

1947

8

The Reef Long Beach

opens—1958

9 10

11

Traders Beverly Hills

Hilton opens—1955

12 Mariano Licudine

born—1907

Wallace Turnbow

born—1921

Mauna Loa Detroit

opens—1967

13

Don Ho

born—1930

14 15

VJ Day—1945

16

Benny Chang’s Poly-

nesian Salt Lake City

opens—1963

National Rum Day

17

Bill McCoy born—

1877

National Thrift

Store Day

18

International

Mermaid Day

19

Debra Paget

born— 1933

20 21

Hawaii Statehood

1959

22

Kowloon Saugus

opens—1950

Trader Vic’s NY Pla-

za

opens—1965

23

Kon Tiki Cincinnati

opens—1965

24

Duke Kahanamoku

born—1890

25

The Polynesian

Torrance opens 1957

26 27

Sven Kristen

born - 1955

28 29

Chop Suey Day

30

Trader Vic’s

Mai Tai Day

31

August 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

TONGA ROOM - SAN FRANCISCO

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

World Coconut Day

Labor Day

3

4

National Macadamia

Nut Day

5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13

Yma Sumac

born 1922

14

15 16

Papua New Guinea

Independence Day—

1975

17 18

Tonga Room San

Francisco opens 1945

19

International Talk

Like a Pirate Day

20

First “Hawaii

5-0”—1968

National Rum

Punch Day

21

22

Brady Bunch cursed

Tiki episode first

airs—1972

23 24 25 26 Harry Yee born—

1918

Kon Tiki Portland

opens—1959

1st “Gilligan”—1964

27

Trader Vic’s St Paul

opens—1966

28

29

Brady Bunch “Pass

the Tabu” 1972

30

September 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Disney’s Polynesian

Village Resort

opens—1971

2 3 4 5

Mauna Loa

Hollywood 1962

6

Thor Heyerdahl

born—1914

Brady Bunch “Tiki

Caves” - 1972

7

First episode of

“Hawaiian Eye” 1959

8

Lotu-a-Tamaiti Day

(Samoa)

9 10

Louis Armet

born— 1914

National Vodka Day

Fiji Day

11

Explorer East

Syracuse opens 1965

12

Dr Johann Siegert

dies—1870

Polynesian Cultural

Center opens—1963

13 14

Facundo Bacardi

born 1814

15 16

National Liqueur Day

17 18

Dawn Wells,

Gilligan’s “Mary

Ann” born 1938

19

George Cates born—

1911

20 21 22 23 24 25

26

Hawaiian Room

Emerson Hotel

opens—1962

27 28

Maori Independence

Day—1835

Wayne Coombs

born 1949

29 30 31

Eli Hedley

born—1903

Halloween

October 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

THE TAHITIAN — PASADENA

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

3

Daylight Savings

Ends

4 5

Natalie Schafer, Gilli-

gan’s “Mrs Howell”

born 1900

6

Kon Tiki Palm

Springs opens—1956

7

Don Blanding

born—1894

8

“Mutiny on the

Bounty” released

1935

9

Ray Buhen born 1909

10

Russell Johns,

Gilligan’s

“Professor” born

1924

11

Webley Edwards

born—1902

Veteran’s Day

12 13 14

William Krisel

born—1924

15 16

17 Robert Drasnin

born— 1927

Hinky Dinks—1934

Aloha Jhoe’s Palm

Springs opens—1961

18

Mr Magoo ship-

wrecked—1960

19

20

Frank Bowers

born—1905

21

Tahitian Pasadena

opens—1961

22 23

24 25 26 27

The Tropics Beverly

Hills opens—1935

28

Thanksgiving

29 30

November 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

VICTOR BERGERON— “TRADER VIC”

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Don the Beachcomber

Las Vegas opens1962

2

Marina Lanai Apts

Seal Beach

opens - 1962

Kalua Room Seattle

opens—1953

3 4

King Tupou I Day

(Tonga)

5 Repeal Day—1933

Don the Beachcomber

Café Hollywood

opens 1933

Gilligan’s “Waiting

for Watubi” - 1964

6

Kon Tiki Palm

Springs opens—1956

7

Charles Ward dies—

1913

Attack on Pearl

Harbor—1941

8 9 10

Victor Bergeron

born 1902

Trader Vic Detroit

opens—1969

11

Frank Bowers

dies - 1964

12 13 14

15 16 17 18 Andres Bumatay

born—1931

Trader Vic’s Waikiki

opens—1940

National Roast Pig

Day

19 20 21

Winter Solstice

22 23 24

South Pacific

Hollendale opens—

1959

Christmas Eve

25

Molasses Act of 1733

Christmas

26

Monte Proser’s

Beachcomber NY

opens—1939

27 28

Mai Kai opens—1956

29

Beatles break up at

Disney’s Polynesian

Village 1974

30

Jack Lord born—1920

Bill McCoy dies–

1948

31 Skipper Kent’s

Polynesian Village

opens—1954

New Year’s Eve

December 1974 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ARRIVES IN HAWAII

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Nat. Hangover Day

Samoan Independence

Day—1962

New Years Day

2

Drink straw patented

- 1888

3 4

5 6 7 8

9

Marvin Chin born—

1924

Bob Denver

“Gilligan” born 1935

10 11

12 13

Kon Tiki movie

released—1950

14 15 16

Pete Wembery born—

1924

17

Hot Buttered

Rum Day

18

Capt James Cook

arrives in Hawaii—

1778

19 20

Martin Luther

King Day

21 22

Duke Kahanamoku

dies—1968

Leon Lontoc dies—

1974

23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

Kon Tiki Tucson

opens—1962

31

January 1975 For additional info go to Tiki Central/General Tiki/ On This Day in Tiki History