Loading ...Re the Grand Poobah:
In the 70’s people also recognized it from the show Happy Days. In the show the patriarch of the family is a member of a leopard lodge. Often he is seen heading off to his meeting wearing a fez with leopard spots. Again the head of the leopard lodge is the ‘Grand Poobah.’
It is easy to assume the origin of the ‘title ‘Grand Poobah’ came from a pop culture reference such as the ones mentioned above or in some of the other ways it has been used in pop culture. Especially over the last few decades.
Instead the origin of the term Grand Poobah comes to us from March 1885.
Comment: Reminds me of Ralph Kramdons racoon cap with the tail on it.