Post #672681 by tiki mick on Fri, Mar 29, 2013 9:25 AM

On 2013-02-27 18:23, creativenative wrote:
What a point Big Bro, If a lot of Poly Pop was created by fond memories of the war but thousands of US troops died on these islands what kind of fond memories were they? I can only think of those Hawaii stops (and training) for almost all US troops coming in and out of the Pacific theater. After Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was relatively a safe heaven. Those Honolulu tropical bars and whorehouses were packed. Anyway maybe that is why Poly Pop is full of dark bars, alcohol and mellow music. One vet can escape the negative of the War and remember only the good, even though the good was a short period of their time in the South Seas.

In film, in the next 20 or so years after WWII we had the action patriotic war pictures, the comedies, than the serious (and at times not so patriotic realistic) heavy dramas. I guess it is a matter of the times and what the public is ready to watch on screen. Now WWII movies are in full realistic gore.

An earlier subject, Sven here is what I was thinking about in an old French press book of HULA:


Yeah, like what theater owner or manager would build this today.
Your example is way more cool, on a trailer AND with a tiki no less.

It also could be that for a lot of former soldiers and sailors, you end up looking back at the places you went and things you saw with fondness, despite the fact that when you were there...it wasn;t always so fun. I know that is the case with me...looking back, they were the best years of my life but while I was there I was looking forward to getting out.

Creanative, you mention the bars in honolulu....I wish someone would do a thread about them with historic photos and info....me and my pirate buddies were regulars at places like "the harbor lounge" and other dirty, nasty places on Hotel Street....places that were old, dark and full of whores but for me the allure was that most still had the original WW2 era jukeboxes with Glen Miller and Dorsey brothers....no one ever played them, of course. But I was there.

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2013-03-29 09:26 ]