Post #570012 by woofmutt on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 8:54 AM

A lotta folks don't know that the mid century Hawaiian craze was the second big wave of fixation with Hawaii in the US. As mentioned above, in the 1920s the focus was mainly on Hawaiian music and ukulele playing. (The 20s was the time of the coon skin coat and ukulele playing college man cliche.)

Hawaiian 78s from that era are pretty common as is sheet music. (I usually rifle through sheet music piles at junk shops looking for cool tropical images.)

Some pictures snagged off the Internet:

1920s ukulele instruction books are pretty common as well:

If anyone's interested in the music of that era the CD Vintage Hawaiian Music - The Great Singers: 1928-1934 is a good collection of original recordings.