Postcard Post: Hula

A postcard from Series C: Our Colonies. 

No. 6 Hulu-Hula Dancing Festival, Hawaii

Compliments of NY Sunday American & Journal

Copyright 1903 by W.R. Hearst

 

 

The card has an undivided back for only the address.  Post Card backs were not divided until 1907!

The sender could only write the address on the back... any message would have to be written on the front of the card.  The area below the grass was left blank intentionally for a message.

Newspaper Cards from MetroPostcard.com

Beginning in 1903 Hearst’s New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco newspapers started inserting whole sheets of chromolithographed postcards that its readers could cutout. Many other newspapers would soon adopt this marketing ploy. These cards were printed on paper closer to newsprint in weight than card stock, which has added much to their ragged appearance today. By 1907 newspaper postcards began being replaced by printed cutout dolls and toys. A variation of the cutout card was the coupon card, which some newspapers would print on a weekly basis. These coupons in turn could be redeemed for postcards by mailing them back to the publisher.

 

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Postcard Post: The Tropics at Waikiki

I have always LOVED Hawaii...  I have collected a few vintage postcards of Hawaii.  On Postcard Friday I plan to show some of cards.  I hope to share some of the history of the islands the is behind the cards!

One of the hot spots in Waikiki was The Tropics at Waikiki Beach

Found this in a Tropics match book cover:

Year in ... Year out,   

the favorite restaurant of Island residents...

serving finest prime rib, corn fed exclusively...

Island game fish...

caught and served daily.

 

COCKTAILS in TROPICAL LUXURY 

 

2254 Kalakaua Waikiki

Phone 996108

 

1607 Kona St

Ala Moana

Phone 93428

 

Proprietors Peaches & Tony Guerrero

 

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The matchbook got me wondering about the proprietors...so I started to do a little searching....

 

Tony Guerrero was an "Island Boy"! In the 1930's he went to Hollywood made a several movies.  While there he meet the beautiful Peaches Jackson, who was pursuing her career in the movies, the rest is well... Tony owned his first restaurant in Hollywood.  When they sold it they moved to Hawaii. In 1940 they bought a waffle place, that was to become the first Tropics restaurant.  In 1958 plans to build what was to become the Ala Moana Shopping Center were under way and that location was closed.

 

Read more in "Creating Hawai'i Tourism A Memoir" by Robert C. Allen  

 

 

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Note - all postcards shared on Postcard Friendship Friday are from my private collection