Hawaiian Village or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microfilm - Collecting Tiki

S Swanky Tiki Socialite Hapa Haole Hideaway, Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 5398	S Swanky Posted posted on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 7:32 PM On 2008-10-28 11:02, senioraqua wrote: I recently acquired original vintage artwork of a Hawaiian Village menu I presume was never produced. The menu mock-up was done in colored pencil and appears to be an unfinished piece with some white corrective ink near the bottom. I was told the artist is Dwight Lee and he worked for the Tampa Tribune and must have done some freelanced work also. I'd be curious if anyone has seen the menu. Seemed like the time to do a little search for the artist in the Tampa Tribune archives at the downtown library. Found out that the Trib doesn't index that far, but St. Pete Times does and can be searched using Google. Second entry on Google came up with an ad from October 15, 1963. Things are dark hard to see on the Google's news search, grabbed the microfilm and made this copy. Very stoked to find a match and can even see where the artist decided to crop the wahine's dress. There are also some great ads and artwork from that time period to be found. Here are some other items: Google searches for St. Petersburg Times: Oct. 15 1963-HV ad is found with artwork-including Outrigger Inn Dec.29, 1971 – HV ad and New Years blerb March 10, 1970 – HV bartender pimp? Sept. 23, 1970 – Trader Franks Fixed the links to be clickable

On 2008-10-28 11:02, senioraqua wrote:
I recently acquired original vintage artwork of a Hawaiian Village menu I presume was never produced. The menu mock-up was done in colored pencil and appears to be an unfinished piece with some white corrective ink near the bottom. I was told the artist is Dwight Lee and he worked for the Tampa Tribune and must have done some freelanced work also. I'd be curious if anyone has seen the menu.

Seemed like the time to do a little search for the artist in the Tampa Tribune archives at the downtown library. Found out that the Trib doesn't index that far, but St. Pete Times does and can be searched using Google. Second entry on Google came up with an ad from October 15, 1963. Things are dark hard to see on the Google's news search, grabbed the microfilm and made this copy.

Very stoked to find a match and can even see where the artist decided to crop the wahine's dress. There are also some great
ads and artwork from that time period to be found. Here are some
other items:

Google searches for St. Petersburg Times:

Oct. 15 1963-HV ad is found with artwork-including Outrigger Inn

Dec.29, 1971 – HV ad and New Years blerb

March 10, 1970 – HV bartender pimp?

Sept. 23, 1970 – Trader Franks

Fixed the links to be clickable

Post #416218 by Swanky on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 7:32 PM