South Pacific
The Miss Ka Palapala Beauty Contest
Contestants divided into racial categories? Seemed like a good idea at the time. Until a cow almost won.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 18, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, South Pacific, Twentieth Century
Sol Bright
His Wikipedia page.His full name: Solomon Kamaluhiakekipikealiʻikaʻapunikukealaokamahanahana Bright Sr.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 11, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Wild West and US Frontier, South Pacific, Twentieth Century
The Beachcomber Bar, UK
Anglo Hula: less is not more.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 11, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, 1960s, Dance, Parody, Europe, South Pacific
Judy the Dog: Only Canine POW of WWII
Judy the dog survived internment in a Japanese POW camp. Her story is told in No Better Friend (see sidebar).
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 21, 2015 -
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Category: War, Dogs, 1940s, South Pacific
Rudy Santos, Octoman
Wikipedia page.
Longer essay.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 25, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, South Pacific
The Sunshine Belt
As Alex showed us earlier, Florida merited a celestial spotlight to be shone upon it. But it was not the only favored land!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 16, 2015 -
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Category: Geography and Maps, Advertising, 1910s, South Pacific
Chopsticks Dance
The seamed pantyhose give it that authentic Filipino cultural touch.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 11, 2014 -
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Category: 1960s, Dance, Europe, South Pacific
John Braund and His Cure for Cancer
Link to newspaper article of the era.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 02, 2014 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Medicine, 1940s, South Pacific
The Aswang
Learn about the Filipino vampire known as the "aswang" here and here, then watch the documentary above.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 30, 2014 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Superstition, Foreign Customs, South Pacific
Bernard Wheatley, Hermit
The man depicted above is Dr. Bernard Wheatley who, after the deaths of his family, chucked a flourishing career to live as a hermit on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Read a long and fascinating article about him here.
In 1957 Dr. Bernard Wheatley - an African American physician from the Virgin Islands - made a pilgrimage to Kalalau Valley. Distraught after the death of his wife and son in a car accident, he kept questioning the meaning of life and other ontological problems until the answers finally came. In a remarkable religious conversion-like revelation he realized that life is eternal. He abandoned his medical practice, sold all his worldly possessions and sought a quiet, secluded place where he could earnestly seek truth without distraction. He arrived on the remote Island of Kauai and after seeing Kalalau from a ridge-top lookout in Kokee, he knew that he had found his home.... He passed on December 3, 1991 at the age of 72. His ashes were spread in Kalalau.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 10, 2013 -
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Category: Death, Religion, Hermits, 1950s, 1960s, South Pacific
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