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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a fan of tiki cocktails and culture, you’re probably aware of its “founding father,” Donn Beach, who founded a string of Don the Beachcomber restaurants in the mid-20th century. And you ...

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 ...

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.