MAUI GRAND HOTEL Hawaiian Luggage Travel Sticker Original Vintage 1950s Hula NOS

Description: MAUI GRAND HOTEL Hawaiian Luggage Travel Sticker Original Vintage 1950s Hula NOS WAILUKUMAUI Grand Hotel, Territory of Hawaii This listing is for one (1) enormously rare luggage label, colors are black and light pumpkin. This item is truly an original, from the mid-1950s, obtained in a souvenir packet from an estate sale that also contained all the other labels we are currently listing. The design features a lovely young woman with flowers in her hair, at the right wrist and ankle, with a sumptuous lei and full grass skirt, somewhat entranced as she tip-toes whilst performing her hula. Football-shaped oval, approx. 4½" x 3⅜", one 2¾" crease running across lower left near the edge.Full gum with tiny loss on the back at one spot.New Old Stock [NOS]. Wailuku is the county seat of Maui Island, Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The use of "Territory of Hawaii" would only have been appropriate post-1898, and obsolete after 1959, upon the beginning of statehood. IMPORTANT NOTE: This listing is for the hula girl label ONLY,the images of the B&W photo and ukulele girl label are included here FOR REFERENCE ONLY.[special 'thanks' to George for being such an obtuse knucklehead and making me spell it out.] ------------------------------------------------------ Please view carefully all photographic scans included, which are of the actual item in the listing - These are an important part of the description. Please ask any questions prior to purchase. The "make offer" feature is not activated. Free shipping in U.S. No foreign sales. Thank You. =================================================== SPECIAL HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE GRAND HOTEL, MAUI: Excerpted from posted article 6/17/2016 by Peter T Young Early newspaper quotations - “Those Honeymoon Isles are getting all sorts of publicity these days, says last Sunday’s Bystander … ‘The Valley Isle’ and Wailuku city of 30,000, a hundred miles or a half-day by boat from O‘ahu Island, and the gateway to the colossus extinct crater, ‘Haleakala,’ will step into the tourist limelight this season with the lure of the new Grand Hotel …” “… a Wailuku Clift – snow white, solid and beautiful, with every San Francisco fad and fancy of comfort, convenience and service, and a capacity for 100 patrons.” “General manager AJ de Souza of the Grand Hotel Company has just returned to the Maui Wailuku following a month at the Fielding, San Francisco, buying the equipment, engaging a manager Frederick McDonald and “planting” the Pacific Slope with patronage publicity.” (Maui News, 10/6/1916) “General manager de Souza said that the new Grand will be the Maui ‘Mecca’ this season with its California high-type hotel accommodations, the want of which has until now decimated tourist travel to the deep and dead Vesuvius, whose dimensions are incomprehensible and its depth bottomless and unknown.” “Thus Maui, Wailuku, the new Grand Hotel and the bottomless Haleakala will this season and henceforth vie and rank with Oahu, Honolulu.” “Waikiki Beach and their horde of hotels in the eye and appetite of the rich and multiplying America winter and summer tourist, indefinitely barred out of Europe.” “The Maui ‘Mecca’ Wailuku and the new Grand will soon bid Western Hotels and Travel fans to the added development of the ‘Hawaiian’ paradise.” (Maui News, 10/6/1916) Folks also learned, “The Grand hotel is going to work in conjunction with the St. Francis [Hotel] of San Francisco.” (Star Bulletin, 9/23/1916) -------------------------------------------------- All this early hype helped, however shortly thereafter, the hotel was in bankruptcy proceedings, “it is quite true that the Grand Hotel company is involved and unable to pay its debts”. (Star Bulletin, 7/21/1917) Associated litigation suggested “Rumors are flying thick and fast as to the nature of the probable adjustment of the case. One theory is to the effect that the Grand will be purchased and turned into a Japanese hospital. This is more or less of an old story, but is probably one of the plans upon which those interested are working.” (Maui News, 9/28/1917) The hotel, the largest hotel on Maui until after World War II, later ended up under the operation of William H Field and his Maui Hotel Company. “Mr. Field built and opened the Maui Hotel 21 years ago [1899] which at that time was considered far in advance of Maul’s needs for years to come.” “Later he built additions and enlarged the Maui into the present building. Three years ago he formed the idea of securing a string of hotels on Maui and leased from George Freeland the Pioneer Hotel at Lahaina, the West Maui port being considered the main gateway to Maui for tourists and traveling men, and he conducted the two hotels under his one management.” “To these he added the Grand Hotel two years ago and conducted the three under one management. Finding it unnecessary to conduct two dining rooms he closed the one in the Maui Hotel and used that building as an annex or for room accommodations only for guests who took their meals at the Grand.” (Maui News, 1/6/1922) Later, EJ Walsh owned the Maui Grand Hotel. Walsh was “one of the big wheels for Kahului Railroad”. He also “ran the observation station in Haleakala.” Back then (the 1930s and 40s,) Haleakala was not a national park, and it was run privately. (Haleakala National Park was established in 1961.) Walsh began furnishing meals and other services for visitors at Haleakala in 1936, becoming the first concessioner in this section of the park. One famous Grand guest was Georgia O’Keeffe; she was in the Islands to submit two paintings for a Dole Pineapple ad campaign. More than six months after her arrival in Hawaiʻi, O’Keeffe had produced 20-paintings, although not one included a pineapple - and she subsequently “submitted depictions of a papaya tree and the spiky blossom of a lobster’s claw heliconia” for the Dole ads. “This little hotel is very good – the Japanese boy carries my things up and down stairs for me – There is a Danish man (Harold Stein) who has charge of recreational work for the island who treats me as if I am his own special guest – It makes things easy”. (Georgia O’Keeffe, 3/25/1939; Saville) The large two-story wooden structure stood on Wailuku’s Main Street; cars drove into the hotel’s semi-circle driveway and it was the center of social life and fine dining up until about 1960. [see reference image in listing photos.] In 1961, The Maui Grand Hotel closed and it was demolished for a service station (the site of the Chevron at Main and Church.)

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Location: Standard, California

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