Post #143637 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 12:47 AM

In the 1960s, many hotels in Hawaii produced postcards showing what the interiors of their rooms looked like. Besides being good advertising to the relatives of the tourists who mailed these back home, the postcards unwittingly captured a moment in Hawaiian history that doesn't exist anymore. The vintage rattan furniture, colorful bedspreads tiki lamps and tapa wall hangings are all relics of a bygone age. The only thing that remains unchanged is the view of Diamondhead out the windows.

I've been collecting these postcards for some time now and thought I'd share them with the group. There always seems to be new ones out there.

3 rooms from the Hotel King Kamehameha on the Kona Coast.

2 rooms from The Kona Inn, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii (The second one with tiki lamps)

2 from the Coco Palms Hotel, Island of Kauai.

2 from The Hanalei Plantation, Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

The Kauai Beachboy Hotel, Waipouli Beach, Kauai.

The Kauai Inn, Lihue, Kauai, (Tiki art?)

A couple from the Kauai Surf Hotel, Kalapaki Beach, Kauai (nice moai lamp!)

The Royal Lahaina Hotel, Kaanipali Beach, Maui.

The Holiday Isle Hotel, Honolulu.

2 rooms from The Islander, Waikiki

Sabu