{"id":252,"date":"2007-05-15T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/05\/15\/hilo-hattie-in-la-times\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:58:01","slug":"hilo-hattie-in-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/05\/15\/hilo-hattie-in-la-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilo Hattie in LA Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCLA has made a library of LA photos from 1920-1990 available and searchable online<\/a>. I tried the names of some Polynesian Pop locales to see if I got a hit on the Luau or Tropic’s or Latitude or Tiki or Trader, etc. Nothing. This was the only teaser. A 1946 picture of Hilo Hattie (center) hamming it up at a Polynesian Society luau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"clusc_8_1_00059281a_j.jpg\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

And who wouldn’t love to go to this 1949 Swimming Club Luau?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I just noticed the lady second to left has a flower that appears to be taped to her chest. No straps on that dress…<\/p>\n

\"Swim\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Via BoingBoing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UCLA has made a library of LA photos from 1920-1990 available and searchable online. I tried the names of some Polynesian Pop locales to see if I got a hit Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,11,539,540],"tags":[177,213,225,311],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-googie","category-polynesian-pop","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","tag-hilo-hattie","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-polynesian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-44","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":159,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/08\/28\/vintage-hawaii-slide-of-the-week-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":252,"position":0},"title":"Vintage Hawaii Slide of the Week","author":"Swanky","date":"August 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ah, calling me back to old Hawaii, 1969. 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