Reformed (more or less) North Carolina moonshiner Junior Johnson is the perfect launching-pad figure for the thing he represents, which is stock-car racing. Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Clara Bow, Chuck Berry—all of them, same thing, very hand-in-glove to their respective fields. But no activity of any kind has an origin-story legend so immaculately tailored to…
BEAUCOUP KAHANAMOKU: STEP ASIDE DUKE, AND LET’S MEET BROTHERS DAVID, BILL, SAM, LOUIS, AND SARGE
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- 1921: LIFE-SIZED DAVID KAHANAMOKU STATUE “SHOWS TO EXCELLENT ADVANTAGE THE SPLENDID DEVELOPMENT OF THE UPPER BODY THAT RESULTS FROM CONSTANT SURF-RIDING”
- GLAMMING THE JOINT UP WITH DUKE, MARILYN, LAIRD, AND RAQUEL
- LOST HOLLYWOOD “GOLD”: 1927 FOOTAGE OF DUKE RESURFACES
- READ: “DUKE’S ULCERS,” BY STEVE HAWK
- WATCH: DUKE BAGS LAUGHS IN LOST 1925 COMEDY SHORT
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- SUNDAY JOINT, 5-2-2021: BROTHERLY LOVE, FROM HERE TO HONOLULU
- MONDAY MAI TAI, 4-11-2022: PREMIXED FOR YOUR PLEASURE
- SUNDAY JOINT, 10-14-2018: DUKE, HAWK, TOM AND PAT CURREN
- SUNDAY JOINT, 7-14-2019: WSA, JOHN BRADBURY, DUKE COMEDY REEL