{"id":751,"date":"2012-02-04T06:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/?p=751"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:25:43","slug":"mai-kai-history-presentation-at-the-mai-kai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2012\/02\/04\/mai-kai-history-presentation-at-the-mai-kai\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai-Kai History presentation at the Mai-Kai!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leila,<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0On April 20th, I will give a much updated version of my Mai-Kai <\/a>history presentation as part of Hukilau<\/a>. I have many more stories and images and long lost videos than when I was at Oasis, plus, I will have many of the people whose stories I am telling, right there in the room with me!<\/p>\n

I am really looking forward to this once in a lifetime event. I hope you will join me as I share the tales that will greatly deepen your appreciation of the Tiki Mecca.<\/p>\n

Come meet the man who invented the Mystery Drink, see the Mystery Girl on the Tonight Show, hear how the Mai-Kai was able to recreate Don the Beachcomber’s recipes so perfectly, and how so many incredible people are linked to this incredible place.<\/p>\n

Tickets at The Hukilau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0On April 20th, I will give a much updated version of my Mai-Kai history presentation as part of Hukilau. I have many more stories and images and long lost videos Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,643,547,11,540,541],"tags":[152,179,647,234,702],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-mai-kai-history","category-places","category-polynesian-pop","category-retro-preservation","category-vintage-places","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-history","tag-johnny-carson","tag-mai-kai","tag-og-tiki-central"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-c7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1263,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2017\/04\/19\/hukilau-mai-kai-history-presentation\/","url_meta":{"origin":751,"position":0},"title":"Hukilau Mai-Kai History Presentation","author":"Swanky","date":"April 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"June 9th, in support of my recently released book on the history of the greatest Tiki bar on earth, the Mai-Kai, I will once again be giving a presentation at the largest Tiki event outside of California, The Hukilau. 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