Month: April 2025

Surfers Annual Greg Noll

New to the SMH surfing ephemera collection, is this highly sought after Surfers Annual, published by Greg Noll in 1960 with illustrations by Rick Griffin....

Natural History Magazine Eddie Aikau Cover

Natural History magazine was founded at the turn of the 20th century (1900) by the American Museum of Natural History in New York as The American...

Paradise of the Pacific Hawaii Volume 73 No.7 1961

Paradise of the Pacific Hawaii was a periodical/magazine promoting tourism and investment in Hawaii. The last king and penultimate monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, King Kalakaua,...

Miki Dora Hawaii

“Odi profanum vulgus et arceo” The above quote was inscribed by Miki Dora on a personal board that was crafted for him in his twilight...

Rabbit Kekai Godfather of Malibu

Featured images: Honolulu Star Advertiser + Clarence Maki Next to Duke Kahanamoku, no name is as synonymous with the Waikiki Beach Boy mystique as Albert...

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