Monte Proser's Beachcomber Lamp
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This is a driftwood style lamp with metal base and decorated shade featuring a caricature of Monte on one side and a shirtless beachcomber hanging out on a desert island on the other. It was made for Monty Proser's Beachcomber. Monte Proser was one of the first to lift Donn Beach's Don the Beachcomber concept, and he lifted the famous Zombie drink right along with it. Proser was largely responsible for introducing the Zombie to the east coast. He started with "Monte Proser's Zombie," a bar created for the New York World's Fair in 1939. Based on that success, he opened Monte Proser's Beachcomber at the end of that same year, December 26th, 1939, in a space above the Winter Garden Theatre in the Theater District north of Times Square (the same space would later hold Lanai, and then Hawaii Kai). Following this, several other locations sprang up, including Miami Beach, Florida, Boston, Massachusetts, Baltimore, Maryland and Providence, Rhode Island.
Production
- Producer
- Monte Proser's Beachcomber - New York
- Date
- circa 1940-1948
Release
Physical Characteristics
- Colour
- Unknown
- Marking
- "Monte Proser's Beachcomber" on shade.