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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souvenir dinner menu from Niumalu Hotel - Waikiki, Hawaii

Item added on September 4, 2009, 7:34 PM
Latest picture added on September 4, 2009, 7:37 PM

The Niumalu Hotel opened in 1928 in Waikiki. The hotel was purchased in 1954 by Fritz Burns & Henry Kaiser ( along with 8 acres of oceanfront property ) to build the Hawaiian Village Hotel. This souvenir dinner menu is from the Tapa Room at the Niumalu, probably dating from the late 1940's.

1940's souvenir dinner menu, front cover

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1940's souvenir dinner menu, back cover

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