Honolulu, HAWAII - "Steamer Day" - Gangway Departures - 1938

Description: Honolulu, HAWAII - "Steamer Day" - Gangway Departures - 1938 - HAND COLORED: “It was a pleasure in the old days to wait for a steamer for days and days, and then to hear the siren whistle down town blow three long blasts. Honolulu got slowly into motion. In two hours the old Rio Janeiro, or the City of Peking, long, narrow, rakish looking steamers with towering masts and sharp bows, would turn in from the deep sea and start up the channel.” Alerted by the whistle blasts, the denizens of the town boarded one of Pain’s mule cars — little rolling compartments drawn by diminutive mules — and joggled over the uneven streets toward the “Pacific Mail wharf,” the most important wharf in those days, located at the present day piers 6, 7 and part of 8. “The boat came up to the dock. The Hawaiian Band was always there and played it in. Everybody on the wharf wanted to show hospitality to every traveler aboard the ship…. Often a stranger found himself in a hack with a couple of Honolulans, might have been men, and might have been young women, it didn't matter—on the way to the Royal Hawaiian hotel. “And how the old hotel leaped into life after a somnolent seven days or two weeks. From the dock the Honolulans flowed into the hotel, and many into the cool basement barroom for Scotch and soda, and other things, too, and that night the band gave a concert in the bandstand in front of the hotel and the new people danced with “old friends” of a few hours, all Honolulans.” One of the special pleasures of steamer day was the arrival of the mail and the San Francisco newspapers. This Hand Colored Linen Era postcard, mailed in 1938 "Buy U. S> Savings Bonds", is in good condition. Sunny Scenes. Winter Park, Fl.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

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