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Last updated Jun 14 2021.
In its heyday, the Holiday Isle Resort had a poolside bar called Kokomo. The owner at the time created the bar after hearing inquiries from tourists looking for Kokomo. The bar was former a birdhouse, according to the resort. A sign at the bar plotted the distance to all the places referenced in the song, Hull said. Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, Montego. Although the resort is now the Postcard Inn Beach Resort and Marina (home to the mid Keys Starbucks before the last two in Key West), people still make the connection between Kokomo and Islamorada. The resort has a re-imagined pool bar called Kokomo that serves cocktails, beer and wine and light fare from nachos to sandwiches.https://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/fl-fea-florida-keys-kokomo-beach-boys-20190920-fjl2o4qmqfblrbh56zx2kglwfm-story.html
Farther south, as in the end of the continental U.S., there was also a “Kokomo Beach.” Casa Marina Resort in Key West renamed their beach to reflect the song, along with a cocktail called “The Kokomo” for drinking by the beach and pool. Although the 1,100-foot private beach is no longer called Kokomo, the song still carries an association with the Keys, said Maureen Holden, a spokeswoman for Casa Marina, a Waldorf Astoria resort ...
“Kokomo was a name that originated with John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas,” Love told the publication. “Phillips wrote the melody and the verse, and I wrote the chorus, and our friend Terry Melcher produced the record, and he came up with the ‘Oooh I want to take you…’ and it was a true collaboration.” Although Phillips pictured Kokomo as a place off the Florida Keys, there really is no Kokomo in South Florida. There is a Kokomo Charters in Sarasota, a Kokomo city in Indiana, a Kokomo in the Fiji Islands and a community named Kokomo in Hawaii. But the music video was filmed in Florida. The Beach Boys, with actor John Stamos on bongos, shot the video at The Grand Floridian before it officially opened.
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