Today I came across the picture below while I was cleaning out stuff in my studio. It's part of an advertisement sponsored by the Hawaii Tourist Bureau in the April 1929 issue of
House and Gardens. The caption reads, "HAWAII, The World's Enchanted Island Playground." I love the colors of it, although I'm puzzled by the geisha serving drinks and by men wearing ties at the beach. I found this magazine among my dad's things after he died; he would have been only 14 when it was published, so perhaps it belonged to his mother.
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| "HAWAII The World's Enchanted Island Playground" |
My friend Debbie and I went to Hawaii in 1976, when we were in our twenties. We didn't see a single geisha. We
were served drinks, so many that Debbie wrote this memorable line on a postcard: "Bombed, we walked the beach at night." That would be Waikiki Beach. Here we are at Waimea Canyon on the island of Kauai:
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| On Kauai in 1976 |
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