Author

Contributions

  • Walker, Elise Meyers - Contributor
  • Chenault, Jeff - Contributor
  • Motz, Doug - Contributor

Publication

2014 - American Palate, a division of The History Press, Charleston, SC, South Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

43,250 words, Guess

Page Count

173 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101626195943
  • ISBN-139781626195943
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014035001
  • OCLC Control Number881401328
  • Better World Books9781626195943
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Classifications

  • DDC641.5996
  • LCCTX945.5.K34 M49 2014
  • LCCTX945.5.K34M49 2014

Description

"Inspired by Florida's famed Mai-Kai Restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. They set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. Patrons lined up for hours to see the celebrities who dined there: everyone from Betty White to Raymond Burr. Outside, two giant Easter Island heads with flames spouting from their topknots stood guard while customers dined in a faux tribal village with thatched huts, palm trees and a towering fireplace moai. One wall featured aquariums of exotic fish and another had windows overlooking a tropical rainforest with periodic thunderstorms. For nearly forty years, the Kahiki was the undisputed center of tiki culture"--

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