Article: HAWAII OF OLD WWII, AIR TRAVEL FOREVER CHANGED THE PLAYGROUND OF THE WEALTHY.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

Byline: Mim Swartz News Travel Editor

HONOLULU -- In the late 1930s, Hawaii called and tourists answered. Before air travel, San Francisco-based Matson luxury liners carried well-to-do visitors across the Pacific, along with their servants and steamer trunks. Travelers soaked up the sun and the Hawaiian spirit on the beaches of Waikiki.

Those not wealthy enough to sail to the islands came here by way of airwaves. At 2 p.m. Saturdays, from under the banyan tree at the Moana Hotel, host Webley Edwards invited listeners to imagine themselves on the beach listening to the surf on his Hawaii Calls musical program, which was beamed to hundreds of radio ...

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