These images are from a 1963 California textbook entitled Hawaii: The Aloha State  by Helen Bauer. I found it in a thrift store many years ...

A commercial came on tv last night for some cruise line that has a HUGE ship that has a gaping hole in the fantail area with cabins facing ...

There's nothing particularly Polynesian about this ad, and yet that was what they were hoping to sell you. This ad could have just as e...

For anyone who has followed this odd corner of the universe for any length of time you'll know my love for the Matson Lines and Hawaii ...

Okay, I'm going out on a high note here. I'm going first class on a Matson Liner back in time to Hawaii. Join me if you wish. It...

These two dolls advertised the Estey Organ Company. I imagine they were printed around 1900, give or take 5 years either direction. These sa...

I've written on my vernacular photography site about tourist photos . You know the kind I'm talking about. You're on a ride, or ...

I remember hearing my folks talk about going to the Barefoot Bar in Waikiki to see Sterling Mossman. I have no memory of him other than this...

There was a background music for growing up in Hawaii in the late 1950s and early '60s: Exotica. Of course I didn't know at the time...

Well folks, this is it for the first class travel. We've now crossed to new territory, which this was sitting on when this card was ma...

Leave San Francisco aboard ship and in 4-1/2 days you'd be coming around the bend of Diamond Head towards the harbor in Honolulu. I'...

50 years ago today Hawaii became a state. I was lucky enough to be there for the event. At the time I wasn't aware of the real history o...

The year after I moved back from Hawaii my family went to Disneyland where we met up with my best friend and her family who had also recentl...

Was it with the Brownie Troop? Is that how we went to the Dole plant? Or did I go with my parents? I'm betting it was with the Brownie T...

The original is long since gone, but not in the memory of two little girls. It was a pink palace in Waikiki with a big fish pond inside. We ...

It was 50 years ago today that my family boarded the SS Matsonia in San Francisco to sail to our new home in Hawaii. Hawaii was still a US t...