The Barefoot Bar and the adjoining balcony were filled to capacity as TS Restaurants celebrated what would have been Duke Kahanamoku’s 126th birthday and honored Hawaii’s beachboys Friday at Duke’s Waikiki. TS Restaurants Regional General Manager Dylan Ching, second from left, joined Duke’s Assistant Manager Michelle Whitton, General Manager Greg Ames and Assistant Manager Darin Tann in making sure it was a party Kahanamoku would have been proud of.

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