Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1901/03/11 | The Moana Hotel opens and welcomes its first guests, a group of 114 Shriners. For $1.50 per night, rooms feature private baths and a telephone while the hotel offers a billiard room, parlor and the first electric elevator in the territory. | Moana Surfrider, Honolulu |
1920/00/00 | The Prince of Wales gallivants around the Moana Hotel, learns to surf standing up and dives off Peacock Pier into the ocean. | Moana Surfrider, Honolulu |
1925/01/24 | 'The Saturday Evening Post' begins syndication of Derr Biggers' "The House Without a Key". | |
1926/06/00 | National Construction Co completes Aloha Tower at a cost of $160,000 and turns over control to the Board of Harbor Commissioners and Chairman Lyman H Bigelow. | Aloha Tower, Honolulu |
1927/02/01 | Royal Hawaiian Hotel opens | Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu |
1935/07/03 | Webley Edwards begins 40 years as the voice on radio that announces: From the Banyan Court of the Moana Hotel overlooking beautiful Waikiki Beach, it's Hawaii Calls! Regular performers are Alfred Apaka, Hilo Hattie, Haunani Kahalewai and Martin Denny. | Moana Surfrider, Honolulu |
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