#Cocoanuts

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World Coconut Day: Great Moments in Coconut Culture

September 2 is World Coconut Day! We observe it as we did with National Banana Day last year, with a little survey of key moments when the humble coconut (sometimes spelled cocoanut) has inspired or impacted popular culture. Originating in the islands of the Indo-Pacific, the fruit was named by Portuguese sailors, “coco” meaning “head” in their language, an obvious reference to its size and…

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The R.L. Watkins Co, 1917

[unidentifiedprimate]

The Cocoanuts (1929)

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[poppingmary]

Jean Simmons, Jane Russell, Stewart Granger and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper at The Cocoanut Grove LA California - 56s

[fredandginger64]

I've been looking at bunches of pictures lately of Dean and Jerry, especially Dean wearing the twin watch. Here he is prominently showing if off at the Cocoanut Grove in 1961. People are brain dead if they believe the story about them not talking for 20 years. I now think the opposite, I believe the two of them saw each other regularly throughout the 60s until something broke them up in the latter part of the 60s. You just do NOT wear a watch given to you by someone you hate for years after a supposed split. These two were crazy about each other, so much so that the split from each other changed who they were. Neither would ever find the happiness that they found with each other. Especially Dean.

Credit: Donazify, via YouTube

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[dozydawn]

Corinne Calvet plays chess at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, California. Photographed by Earl Leaf, 1957.

[thursdaymurderbub]

Silver Screen magazine, October 1939

[spawksstuff]

January 1968 - Date Nights

Looks like De and Carolyn went out for some swanky nights in late January 1968. First to see Mel Torme at the famous Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel (article appeared 20 January 1968):

Next for dinner at "Dino's Lodge" which was Dean Martin's restaurant on Sunset (article appeared 31 January 1968):

A description found says "The tinkle of cocktail glasses… the aroma of fine food… murmurs of sophisticated conversation…waiters dressed smartly in black pants and red jackets with gold buttons… This mood of genteel elegance pervaded Dino's Lodge on the Sunset Strip Saturday night."

In case you were wondering what was served in these places, check out the menus:

Cocoanut Grove "from the 70s":

Dinos from sometime between 1960 - 1970:

The inflation calculator (1968 vs 2023) says $1.75 is $15.48 (hors d'oeuvres), $4.00 is $35.38 (chicken entrees), $6.00 is $53.07 (NY sirloin/filet mignon), and $9.50 is $84.02 (rack of lamb for 2).

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Season 2 of Star Trek had finished filming early January 1968 and had not yet been renewed for the third season (the writing campaign was going strong though). De and Carolyn were probably out celebrating the end of filming and also De's birthday (January 20.)

Both articles were from the Los Angeles Evening Citizen News.

[mudwerks]

(via BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: The Four Marx Bros-1925-1933)

[thepopculturearchivist]

JUDGE, February 27, 1926

[nepalsaysrawr]

Just some character ideas/sketches for my Marx Brothers/Cocoanuts slasher/horror AU project thing. It's just the basics. I'm not sure with Chico and Harpo but I'll add the rest soon.

Will be open to any ideas you chip in

[unidentifiedprimate]

The Cocoanuts (1929)

[nine-frames]

"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket."

The Cocoanuts, 1929.

Dir. Robert Florey & Joseph Santley | Writ. Morris Ryskind & George S. Kaufman (Original Stage Play) | DOP George J. Folsey & J. Roy Hunt

[therecipelibrary]

Coconut Pudding

-The American Lady's System of Cookery 1852

As requested by @detroitlib

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