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Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt.

That's the birth name of Don Beach, a Texas native prohibition bootleger and Air Force

major who spent his younger years sailing the Caribbean, and fell so in love with the

beach he adopted it as his surname.

In 1933 in Hollywood, California in a Maustrum of Cultural Appropriation, Mr. Beach

crammed together Polynesian decor, Cantonese food, and potent Caribbean rum-based cocktails

into what would be the first Tiki bar.

During his creations like the Poupou platter and the Mai Tai, the Tiki craze was a legitimate

and beaches lifetime and continues nostalgicly today, and though representing no real

existent culture, it has become instrumental in informing American perception of oceanic

peoples.

In the early 1960s, Tony DeGrazier, a military man of a different era and branch of

service, was station Nanowahu when he became an officionato of surfing waves and sipping

boozy drinks with his navy pals.

DeGrazier later combined the Tiki aesthetic and cocktails with the menu of meaty burgers

and baskets of fries, choosing as his foothold the biggest beach community in the U.S.

Mother in California.

In 1982, his first restaurant opened on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, just a few blocks

from beloved local burger institution, the Apple Pan.

While the Apple Pan is stayed put as a bustling single eatery, DeGrazier's creation has

grown into a chain of 50 locations across California, Nevada, Arizona, and the state that

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