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\"\"Swanky<\/a> is\u00c2\u00a0Tim Glazner, co-creator and organizer of Hukilau<\/code><\/span><\/a> and collector of Polynesian Pop<\/span><\/a>. He created the first carving seminar for Tiki carvers and helped organize Tiki Eyeball at the Aku Tiki Room in Illinois and other events. He is author of Mai-Kai: History & Mystery of the Iconic Tiki Restaurant<\/a>. He is the creator of the Grogalizer<\/a> site for helping you try all of Beachbum Berry’s cocktails. He produced the Tiki Daze <\/a>calendar and was voted “Best Mixologist” by Metro Pulse magazine. He produced a line of Tiki bowls in cooperation with the Mai-Kai <\/a>celebrating that great institution. He has lectured around the country and been invited to speak around the world. He is into Midcentury culture and Tiki is a part of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swanky is\u00c2\u00a0Tim Glazner, co-creator and organizer of Hukilau and collector of Polynesian Pop. He created the first carving seminar for Tiki carvers and helped organize Tiki Eyeball at the Aku Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P731sH-1w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/links\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":0},"title":"Links","author":"Swanky","date":"June 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Swanky's\u00c2\u00a0Grogalizer is your key to unlocking Beachbum Berry's Tiki Drink books! The Hukilau event, co-founded by Tim Swanky Glazner","rel":"","context":"In "Blather"","block_context":{"text":"Blather","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/blather\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"the Grogalizer","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/grogalizer_large_white.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/archives\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":1},"title":"Archives","author":"Swanky","date":"June 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Blather"","block_context":{"text":"Blather","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/category\/blather\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1135,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/knoxville-visitors-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":2},"title":"Knoxville Visitors Guide","author":"Swanky","date":"September 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Swank Pad Knoxville Visitor's Guide Vintage Knoxville Google Map is a way to tour various remnants of the 50s and 60s in town. There are neighborhoods with Mid-Century Modern homes, vintage neon signs, shopping,\u00c2\u00a0and other mid-century points of interest. Knoxville is becoming a destination and visitors want to\u00c2\u00a0plan their\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gay-street-too-1.jpg?fit=399%2C247&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}