Hawaiian Village Hotel Pupu Bar, Waikiki, 1950s Soda Fountain marble staircases and decaying grandeur

marble staircases and decaying grandeur have made it a favorite of movies

Gilded and tinted in a lithographic process using three stones

The Vita Sun Café was on the ground floor of the J Lyons Corner House in Leicester Square

Majestic was a hugely popular commercial vessel and was the pride of the newly merged white Star-Cunard line but its fortunes began to decline when the Great Depression set in and the vessel was eventually scrapped in 1936

Hawaiian Village Hotel Pupu Bar, Waikiki, 1950s Soda Fountain marble staircases and decaying grandeurStanley Stubenberg was born in Hawaii in 1925 and was a highly regarded commercial artist who created illustrations for menu covers that are still wonderfully fresh and funny today. We are thrilled to have found this set of illustrations for the Hawaiian Village Pupu Bar, from Waikiki in the 1950s. In tones of acid green and bright pink, they are a play on the warnings about the "Zombie Cocktail", slightly sinister but humorous too The Hawaiian