Hawaii at Play: Images of a Bygone Era - Softcover

Brown, Desoto

9780974267234: Hawaii at Play: Images of a Bygone Era

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974267236 ISBN 13: 9780974267234

Publisher: Watermark Publishing, LLC, 2003

Queen's Surf. The Palace Theatre. Stewart's Pharmacy. Kau Kau Korner. They are names and places of an era long past, a time when Hawaii's modern culture was coming of age. Islanders dined on Swanky Burgers or danced at La Hula Rhumba, while vacationers arrived by luxury liner, lured by romantic images of lovely hula maidens and a low-rise Waikiki. This golden era is captured in some 300 images -- menus and matchbooks, postcards and magazine ads, posters and coasters -- from the extensive personal collection of Bishop Museum archivist DeSoto Brown. Here is leisure-time Hawaii -- from the Territorial years through early Statehood -- seen through the eyes of those who marketed the magic of the Islands.

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