The Invention. Prohibition dies in December 1933; within months Don’s Beachcomber is pouring on McCadden Place — first documented, fittingly, by a 1934 vice-squad raid — and the tiki bar is invented whole.
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Dated milestones
December 5Prohibition repealed — within a year, Don's Beachcomber is pouring in Hollywood and the tiki age begins