Hawaiian Village Hotel Pupu Bar, Waikiki, 1950s

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Hawaiian Village Hotel Pupu Bar, Waikiki, 1950sStanley Stubenberg was born in Hawaii on December 8 1925 and was a highly regarded commercial artist who created illustrations for menu covers that are still wonderfully fresh and charming today. He created many illustrated menus for the Hilton Hawaiian Village as well as the Reef Hotel and The Tropics. These six illustrations depicting the peril of drinking the Pupu Bar's signature cocktail The Zombie were part of a menu booklet used by the bar.

when he came to Honolulu to perform a benefit concert for the USS Arizona Memorial

Louis Prima and Chico Marx were regular band leaders on the Blackhawk stage

the bucking horse raising clouds of dust and a plump-chested cowboy as the centerpiece

It’s worth looking at old photographs of the Penguin restaurant on the internet

Source: British Library Board/Robana

Established in 1927

El Rancho burned down in 1960

The restaurant expanded by taking over adjoining four story buildings and was soon hosting opera stars from the nearby Grand Opera House on Eighth Avenue

mostly from the Canton region of Southern China

in 1856 by Richard Leggy Wheeler

a fire in 1961

spaghetti Caruso named in honor of the famous Italian tenor for $1

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