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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2012-05-07 4:49 pm Permalink
Here is another old photo of Ray Kinney and his group at the Hawaiian Room stage.
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Swanky
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From: Hapa Haole Hideaway, TN
| Posted: 2012-05-08 08:49 am Permalink
At my presentation at Hukilau, a lady approached me about a Hawaiian Room anniversary something or other she was doing. I need to contact her. My presentation had footage from 1937 in the Hawaiian Room with Pualani Mossman Avon, who was lead dancer there and was part of Ray Kinney's Aloha Maids.
Anyone know about this anniversary thing? Will it be in NYC or Hawaii? I think they wanted me to participate. I'll share when I know more.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-08-26 1:33 pm Permalink
I picked up a souvenir photo holder from the Hawaiian Room.
A different cover than the other ones posted.
The photo inside.
Interesting to compare this photo to and older one.
You can see that the Hawaiian Room was becoming less Hawaiian and more Tiki with Tapa tablecloths and lamps.
Then it went full Tiki as seen in this photo.
Tiki lamps Tiki drinks, and a custom Tiki mug. It was around long enough to make the Tiki transition.
 
DC
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Or Got Rum?
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Joined: Jul 29, 2009
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From: Wisconsin
| Posted: 2012-08-27 11:54 am Permalink
Great photo timeline DC...nice work! OGR
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-09-07 12:55 pm Permalink
Thanks OGR,
Here are a few more old ads from the Hawaiian Room.
I like the description on this one - "Taking the town by Storm" with the tropical Hurricane, complete with rain, lightning and thunder"! Sounds like Trader Sam's.
DC
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Johnny Dollar
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From: Baltimore, Maryland, PNG
| Posted: 2012-11-10 03:54 am Permalink
evidence from the book "aloha america: hula circuits through the u.s. empire," suggests that there is a direct relationship between the hawaiian room in the hotel lexington in NYC and the hawaiian room at the emerson hotel in baltimore http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=40757&forum=2 : "Te Moana Makolo was part of the last group of Lexington dancers in the early 1960s, becoming the lead choreographer of the show. She, too, had an itinerant career as a professional hula dancer. After the Hawaiian Room closed in 1966, she opened a Hawaiian room at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, and continued on an overseas USO circuit with the performer Johnny Kaonohi Pineapple in the early 1970s." http://books.google.com/books?id=AgH9xngze1cC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=%22te+Moana+Makolo%22&source=bl&ots=1ClAG4ribc&sig=_owqzHg60DseWXL_EjSqfEqGd3k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UTyeUPHaFI3D0AHH7oG4Aw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
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tikilongbeach
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From: LBC via DFW
| Posted: 2013-01-17 2:00 pm Permalink
This is for sale on etsy. $19.99
www.etsy.com/listing/94649805/vintage-menu-the-hawaiian-room-hotel?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_query=polynesian+menu&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_vintage_rewrite=vintage+polynesian+menu&ga_original_query=2&ga_search_type=all
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Pittsburgh pauly
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Posts: 328
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 16 days ago; 1:44 pm Permalink
Recently acquired two matchboxes from the Hawaiian Room that aren't in this thread.
Here's the interesting (to us) side with artwork that matches the recipe brochure posted by DustyCajaun:
and the hotel on the obverse:
Don't know the year, 50s? Note the phone number, PLaza 5-4400. Which plaza? the Plaza hotel? Doesn't seem close enough to give name to the exchange .
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2 days ago; 6:12 pm Permalink
Another souvenir photo from the Hawaiian Room. What's with the mad dad?
DC
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