Kona memories

From a web search for Akamai Barnes:

The first run I made on the USS Tiru (SS416) after reporting aboard at Pearl Harbor in June of 1967 was over to Kailua Kona on the Big Island of Hawai'i. We anchored out in the harbor, and a motor whaleboat from a destroyer took us into the pier. We all went into the first bar at the end of the pier, a place called Akamai Barnes, and inside were Lee Marvin, Jonathan Winters, Richard Boone, and some other actors and actresses from Boone's television show. Boone bought $900 in drinks that afternoon and some of my friends and I drank with Lee Marvin late into the night at a nearby hotel night club, an experience I will never forget, in spite of my intoxication. Jonathan Winters, another Marine veteran of World War Two in the Pacific, went out to the boat and had a great time running around shouting orders and looking through the scope. A few weeks later we saw on television that he was committed to a mental hospital, from which he later escaped, I am sure.

Rico says the bar (and Boone, though not Marvin, alas) were still there when he and his father went scuba diving in Kona that summer...