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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