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.

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luggage label from Grand Pacific Hotel - Suva, Fiji

Item added on July 31, 2009, 11:02 AM
Latest picture added on July 31, 2009, 11:32 AM

The Grand Pacific Hotel, overlooking Suva Harbor, was built by the Union Steamship Company in 1914, to serve their cruise line passengers. The hotel was designed to resemble the stateroom of and ocean liner, complete with identical plumbing fixtures as on a ship, saltwater bathrooms, and 15' wide veranda that wrapped around the building, as if a ships deck. Its been closed since 1992, awaiting restoration.

1940's luggage label

Tags: Fiji, illustration, kava bowl, luggage label

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