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Post #413413 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 9:59 PM
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In any case, I feel inspired to post some images from the little book that gave me the great USO Tour map with the G.I. bases in the Pacific I showed in the Book of Tiki, Jerry Colona's "Who Threw That Coconut?":
Jerry was the other comedian next to Bob Hope in that tour... Here is the whole gang: Frances Langford was another seminal figure in Polynesian pop, she married South Sea movie actor Jon Hall and opened her own "The Outrigger" Restaurant in Florida.
The book has lots of funny illustrations like the above. The Dedication is also quite cool:
That was back when it was easy to tell who the bad guys and who the good guys were... |
