Post #495610 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 12:35 AM

I recently obtained the same souvenir program as Dustycajun.

It's got a nice rendering of the Hawaii Pavilion area:

My favorite structure has to be that 5 Volcanos restaurant to the upper right:

:up: Talk about Poly-Pop Modern architecture! Love that roofline.

I also got a hold of a stack of pre-Fair progress report booklets which were apparently sent to investors to show the progress of construction and expenditures from 1962 all the way up to the post-fair proposals of what to do with the structures afterwards. They're lushly illustrated with wonderful artist's renderings and concept art of all the buildings, as well as photos of the buildings being constructed. The Hawaiian area was fairly minor in the larger scheme of things, so the photos are pretty sparse. However, I found a few.

This map shows where the Hawaii Pavilion was going to be built - just to the East of the existing Marine Theater at Jones Beach:

This early cartoon shows a rudimentary Hawaii Pavilion. The actual build-out was much more extensive, thankfully.

In 1962, 2 years before the Fair, the Marine Theater hosted a lavish production of Guy Lombardo's Hawaiian musical, "Paradise Island". I wonder if that had any influence on putting the Hawaii Pavilion in that area:

Later came the architectural models and artist renderings of the final Pavilion:

:down: Here's another building I would have visited for sure.

Here are some performers outside the completed Pavilion:

They were probably performers in Sterling Mossman's show "Barefoot In Paradise" - A sweeping spectacle of Pacific Island peoples in a great new musical extravaganza featuring a company of 46 exotic south seas entertainers.

Here's a coaster from the 5 Volcanos:

And an image from inside the souvenir recipe book:

Also an artist's rendering of the Papua New Guinea area of the Fair. Images of this structure seem to be less common: