Arkiva Tropika is the online archive of the collection of Mimi Payne. This large collection includes a wide array of mostly pre-1970 menus, postcards, matchbooks, and paper ephemera souvenir items, mainly from Polynesian and other Exotic themed restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, bars, and the like.

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menu from Hawaii Drive In - Royal Oak, MI

Item added on February 9, 2010, 11:46 AM
Latest picture added on February 9, 2010, 12:09 PM

This 1950's menu cover from the Hawaii Drive In uses the imagery of Eugene Savage's "Aloha, Universal Word" mural, created for the Matson Lines, and used as menu covers for S.S. Lurline cruise ship.

1950's menu, front cover w/artwork by Eugene Savage

Tags: copycat graphics, illustration, menu, Michigan

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