When Beach was sent to World War II, Don the Beachcomber flourished under his ex-wife's management (Sunny Sund), expanding into a chain of 16 restaurants. It displayed many artifacts that he had collected on earlier trips through the tropics.
The bar served a wide variety of exotic rum drinks (including the Sumatra Kula and Zombie cocktail), and later Cantonese food. One of the earliest and perhaps the first of what is now known as a tiki bar was named 'Don the Beachcomber,' created in Hollywood in 1933 by Ernest Gantt (who later legally changed his name to 'Donn Beach'). Don the Beachcomber restaurant menu cover
