Arkiva Tropika is the online archive of the collection of Mimi Payne. This large collection includes a wide array of mostly pre-1970 menus, postcards, matchbooks, and paper ephemera souvenir items, mainly from Polynesian and other Exotic themed restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, bars, and the like.

Mimi can be contacted at aloha@
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illustration, 1964 NY World's Fair brochure from Intercontinental Samoa - Pago Pago, Am. Samoa

Item added on September 27, 2006, 10:00 PM
Latest picture added on September 27, 2006, 10:01 PM

Illustration of the Inter-Continental on Pago Pago Bay. Among the architects were Wimberly, Allison, & Tong, who were responsibile for the for the design of the Waikikian, Tahiti's Hotel Bora Bora, Tahiti's Tahara'a Hotel, among others.

illustration from Polynesia at the Fair brochure

Tags: brochure, building exterior, hotel, illustration, Samoa

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