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Firsts and almost firsts in Hawai'i

Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawai'i, like the subject it celebrates, is itself a first - the first book-length look at how and when a wide range of items made their first appearance in the Islands: from credit cards, mongooses, cockroaches, dumb waiters, slot machines, and drive-ins to aloha shirts, computers, roller skates, parking meters, and shipwrecks. The most important and the most trivial are found in its pages - everyday household objects as well as major
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, ©1995
Trivia and miscellanea
xxii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780824812829, 0824812824
32894100
"A Kolowalu book."