Tolley is always adding to his collection and posting new items to on Instagram as he gets things in the mail. “It’s about the lives of people who live here now, or were stationed here during World War II, or during Korea-anyone who’s crossed paths with Hawai‘i.” “It’s not only about places tourists care about,” he says. He strives to strike a balance in what is presented rather than focusing solely on the hospitality industrial complex. “I try to think about what will be most meaningful and exciting and focus on the places that are mostly gone,” Tolley says about how he curates the Instagram account. The shape of the hotel’s “hyperbolic paraboloid” lobby roof and the ornamentation of its adjacent suites conjure the seduction and dread of attending a Skull Island sacrifice, but with cocktails shortly to follow. A postcard of the Waikikian, “Hawaii’s Most Beautiful Hotel,” shows off its wild architecture. Lately, Tolley has been posting images of of Hawai‘i’s unique architecture, past and present.
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“Every day of your stay at Hana Maui,” the copy promises, “will be pleasure-filled and exciting … The full facilities are yours to enjoy exactly as you wish.”Ī Family’s Surprise Journey in ‘Ukulele Crafting I try to think about what will be most meaningful and exciting and focus on the places that are mostly gone.Ī mid-’50s Hotel Hana Maui brochure posted by Tolley sneaks us a glance, through hala and naupaka leaves, of a Hāmoa Beach scene with bathers, umbrellas, and a pink longboard arranged just so. According to Tolley, ’60s jet travel and mass-marketed tourism brought that era to a close, though Hawai‘i continued to attract visitors looking for an exclusive place of retreat, isolatation, and freedom through the 1950s. Seats aboard Matson luxury liners and propeller planes headed to the islands were reserved for the well-heeled and adventurous. In this phase of its tourism history, Hawai‘i was a hard-to-reach and expensive destination. As his collection grew, he began sharing his finds on Instagram under the name the account, Tolley has cultivated a vision of the islands he refers to as the golden age of Hawai‘i travel, between the turn of the 20th century and late 1941, when the United States entered World War II. Hunting down postcards has also helped Tolley learn about his new home and entertain folks online. Sites like eBay, where Tolley’s watchlist is maxed out at 100 items, make finding these antiques much easier, though collectors are more educated now. Postal Service history that private companies could print postcards. Tolley is especially interested in locally produced cards from between 19, the first time in U.S. produced lithographic postcards that played up Hawai‘i’s sensuousness, its traditional and regal cultures, its landmarks and landscapes.
Local companies like Hawai‘i and South Seas Curio Co. Postcards also played a part in shaping Hawai‘i’s reputation as a paradise of the Pacific.
“Collecting postcards has been a constant.” “I’ve been a collector of things all my life,” says Tolley, whose pursuits include first-edition books, midcentury housewares and furniture, and postcards of New York City’s Rockefeller Center. In the case of Spencer Tolley, he began searching out vintage Hawai‘i ephemera in 2012, when work as a travel agent brought him from Miami to the Wai‘anae coast of O‘ahu. There’s always something the collector wants but doesn’t have, never mind all the things the collector would want but hasn’t yet seen.
Through postcards and hotel brochures, a collector endlessly pursues the golden age of Hawai‘i travel.
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