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Post #762627 by MrBaliHai on Mon, Apr 18, 2016 6:38 PM

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Among other things, the walls of the Hai'deaway are adorned with a lot of framed, paper ephemera that I've collected over the years. It's relatively cheap to buy (usually cheaper than the frame), and it looks great:

The cover of an issue of Ballyhoo Magazine from the 1930s:


A couple of Hawaiian-themed pinball flyers I purchased from the gentleman who sold me my Bali Hi pinball machine:



A South Seas travel poster, probably a reproduction of an old poster from the '30s:


Every tiki bar needs an album cover featuring a comely wahine shaking her big gourds:


Vintage Matson cruise line menus with beautiful watercolors of Polynesian scenes:


And finally, lithographs of Polynesia from the 1850s that were cut out of magazines, like Harper's Weekly: