On this, the eighty-seventh birthday of the Royal Hawaiian, a picture from the past, 1927.

This is a scene from Right Outside Waikiki with the Royal Hawaiian Hotel from Up in the Sky

[The famous pink hotel opened up a few weeks earlier on the 1st of February. You can barely see on the bottom right of the picture, "Photo by Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor". If the newspapers were rescanned carefully, pictures like these would be so much more vivid!]

(Nupepa Kuokoa, 2/24/1927, p. 5)

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke LXVI, Helu 8, Aoao 5. Feberuari 24, 1927.