 I'm particularly happy even more than anyways all the time for a special reason to have you back to this or a show thing take a wise human human architecture is happening to be the 312 episode that you're watching. Hopefully you watch from the day one and number one. And this one has to do with these numbers 7 and 10 because that multiplied means 70 and this is a very special twin duo double anniversary show and me is Martin this bang and you the solo brown what is that number about that you're very familiar with. Well, I am very excited to say that I just celebrated my 70th birthday and the same month of January, 2024, the breakers hotel in like he celebrated its 70th birthday. So, in honor of these 2, 70th birthday celebrations, we're doing a show about the breakers hotel in like he. Because it's a not only historic hotel from the 1950s, but it also has a lot of aspects to it that we really like and we want to praise it. We've talked about it before, but we're going to talk about it again to let you know how special it is. And I personally as a historian because that's my job at the museum where I am right now. I'm particularly enthusiastic and happy that the breakers has survived in such good original condition that you can go and visit it and see what a 1950s authentic. Hawaiian hotel Waikiki hotel is like. Yeah, and we always try to keep things real so we want to share that you're almost dripping and exhausted because you rushed to your Bishop Museum workplace and you came from home. We were doing the follow up show of to this one here because this one was supposed to be very special how can it be any different because your birthday. We wanted to do it in your birthday buddy breakers and we did and Apple the manager who you see her business card here somewhere we let these run through so you get an impression already where we were and what we all saw and to prove that we were really there. The little thing that's left from what didn't work old man's a new technology speaking about myself of course, having been the reason we're going to walk you through in a little video towards the very end. Yes, so let's talk about why it is so special because these days they talk a lot about gray energy so how you build buildings and then how you operate buildings and then also that you don't care buildings down on all these levels the breakers is an absolute winner because was built out of wood to begin with and then it stayed around almost unchanged and it's it's basically operated in an easy breezy way as we like to say so this is really. We also going to be with the students next Monday with Apple and show them that and these are not the architectural students but our additional travel industry management. And so this is also not the first time we've been reporting about it in the very first slides if you remember, we've been show quoting both think take Hawaii and docomomo shows with our fellow board members, many of them being excited about some of them as having lived in Edwin Bauer's buildings, who's the architect of that one, and then then be fostered that one sort of summarizing all of that about the tragic end of Edwin Bauer who was then basically lost no one he had the men show so many summers and no one saw him anymore but that is the only bad node all the other nodes are absolutely great that the building is just as it was in 54 and it just looked just as good as young as happy birthday again you do. So, but let's go into the little specifics because on Ethel's business card that looks very vintage to she says it's why he keys most distinct resort. Definition wise distinguish between a hotel and resort what's the difference. Well the resort is usually described as a place where you can stay on the premises and all these different amenities are offered to you and you don't have to go other places. So what the breakers offers first of all of course it has a swimming pool so if you choose not to go to the beach and go swimming in the ocean you can swim. Secondly, there is a restaurant on the grounds so there is food available there if you want to buy that, but also the beach walk neighborhood that this is located on the beach walk street is a quiet street even though it's in wiki it doesn't have a lot of traffic, and it does have convenience stores nearby. So you can purchase food outside very easily with a short walk. In addition, the beach walk contains kitchenettes and this is an innovation of the 1950s for hotel rooms in wiki key to have cooking facilities so that again you don't have to eat out you can eat on the premises. And furthermore amazing in wiki key. It has free parking and there's not a lot of it, but parking in wiki key is difficult as everybody who lives here knows, and also in the bigger hotels where there may be a whole parking building. They charge you for parking and the breakers doesn't charge for parking so not only is it a 1950s resort in the way it's designed and the way it still exists but it still has amenities that other hotels no longer offer free. Yeah, and let Ethel show this to us so this is slide 44 and then we can show 43 42 41 and 40 39 Michael as well, because this is Ethel basically having walked us through and basically demonstrate all that so not only is the hotel the architect to original but also it's inferior, not necessarily the furniture you can move around that has been changed at some point but it's also been a while, but we're talking the builds in things that are fixed, and they are still original in many of the units and that's absolutely it speaks about a time when America was like made in America means I last, just like Deutsche Werter by men. Okay, that's good German stuff that lasts, which is unfortunately in none of our two cultures the case anymore with stuff they manufacture today. So these things are still there is still work, and they look beautiful yeah that picture if you can stay on that one. We had a chance to check the situation I was actually not happy with this picture to begin with but there's always a good thing about everything bad so the reason that way you had the chance to be there made us, you know, check on things more. So what looks like boo boo it's been changed to AC. Yes, because some of the guests require that that's what they're conditioned to use to they want that. But when Ethel's staff led us into the room. The default was oh let's switch that machine on. We went there and switched it off immediately and it was very windy that day, and the curtains were blowing so I, we look behind and the the jealousies are actually still working. They're not only working there but tell us how they worked in on the other side. The really dramatic or interesting thing about the breakers rooms is the rooms that face onto the central open area where the swimming pool is and where you can lounge around on the on the paved deck. Those entire walls are jealousies and those work perfectly. So you can open there they are and you can open that entire wall of jealousies up and receive the breezes coming through naturally. And that's what we always say we love the term easy breezy meaning you can make use of natural wind and natural air movement and you don't have to have air conditioning and you don't have to use electricity. You don't have to use fossil fuels. You let the natural environment take care of your needs. Absolutely and go back to the resort definition that it's so proudly rightly so carries. Again, the kitchen nets, which is what other resorts by the way of newer kinds don't have anymore you need to get out to be ripped off in Wanky key where everything is expensive while here, you can go and shop somewhere where it's not that expensive and bring it home and cook your food on top of that and that would be slide twenty seven and twenty eight please they grow your food. There is basically use in Guzman who I met as well. He is the as a little kid he was trained by his father this is tradition of the hotel to do the landscaping. He used and took over and he plans these baby pineapples on your planter trough that we're also very familiar from the killings with body of work. I always do that integrated vegetation into the Belastrade. And here they are then right and ripe when they are to be picked harvested and you can do your white toast that you laugh about rightly so because that's what we cookie Germans as you call us. It's a it's a piece of toast well it's a piece of bread that's got what cheese and a slice of pineapple or doesn't have ham and cheese on as well. I can't remember. I think it's got all of those and you toast it. I guess under a broiler or in a microwave not in a microwave but under a heat source. That's a German delicacy toast. So you can you can create that. You can create that right there. No thing your culture did not know that did not have that in order to have dairy or cows or anything to that extent right but so it's a purely made up thing by cookie Germans as you rightly call us who mid century. We're craving for being not in the cold anymore but in the tropics and they invented that thing and these Germans. As you will point out in the follow up show you saw an anti slip warning sign and they also have it in German so they come here. They might want to make the Hawaii toast and they can't. And no other glitzy fancy expensive and let's get to that part let's go to slide number 53. Not only and we know all this from from Ethel who will then show on slide nine after that but let's stay on this one here. She also told us that all the staff was basically kept so sustainability happens on all levels. Not just on you know building sustainability operational sustainability you know passive system versus active systems but also social work ethic sustainability. They kept all the staff. She convinced the owner that we get to next to basically keep everyone and the rates are not. Yeah. And there we see the woman in red is Ethel the manager since the beginning of the hotel and thanks to Ethel again all these things are still practiced the way they basically were. And on the previous slide you saw the room rates right there. They're they're still pretty moderate 150 bucks to begin with. Next to it is the we almost don't want to talk about it because of politics. The Trump Hotel Trump International Hotel. The rates started 400 and go to the thousands in an obnoxious way. Well. Let's point out to that the Trump Hotel name is about to be dropped. So. Oh wow great news. That is great news and they will be disassociating themselves with Donald Trump. I also want to just point out that when this hotel opened the rates for a low cost hotel like this range from five to eight dollars a day. That's how much inflation has occurred in my life. And then people got paid you know and then an apple cost only a fraction of what so they needed to raise it according to inflation. But it's still again an absolute numbers. This is affordable. Right. And the next following slides Michael are going to give us hope that it will continue to be around because while great news about the Trump name dropped. But capital creditor or creditor capitalism is still going on around it. There's the been the very scouting creeping up on it pretty badly on the other side on the Malca side. So you might think well it might be swallowed up. No. There's hope because not the original owner but the one who bought it fairly early from the original orna according to Ethel. They are the most. You know most famous ceremony masters in Japan. And in fact there is a building that's number 59 which is a key house they build later on the premise. And they come there and do periodically and do their ceremonies. So they're in a financial position to not be vulnerable to some indecent offers from anyone. They basically keep it and it includes the premise around it. The previous slides if we go back to 57 I make the keyword delicious Japanese chocolate to poke you. Yes. Well because in this neighborhood as I said along Beachwalk a lot of original buildings are still there there has been a lot has been sustained since then as we've been saying. And in this small building which is just a short distance away from the breakers hotel there is this high end Japanese chocolate shop. It's just to the right in the same building of what we're looking at right now. And I have made a point to stop there a few times in recent months to pick up some of their special chocolate which I believe this is the only place in Hawaii where that particular brand of high end Japanese chocolate is available by retail. So I make it a point to go down there sometimes and pick up some treats. And it's it's inclusive because the the neighbor of that one is is a more low end or moderately priced little mom and pop store where you can buy a little bit of everything and you can carry that back into your room and even cook with it. That's great. There is also however and that's on the slide 60. There is a restaurant on there that is now a sushi place. And we heard and we addressed this in the next show and actually show you that we heard there was actually a Tiki bar in there which makes total sense because we're talking Polynesian pop here. That one has is gone and has sort of redirected itself. I guess one can say a couple of blocks further away that we will talk about. So these are all great amenities. You know and it sounds like we're on the payroll of the hotel. We're not. We have our own employers Bishop Museum and you age pay my students pay decently enough more than decently enough so no we're not. This comes from true sympathy. You're a little buyer is because you're siblings you know age wise. So that's that's fair to say. But go back to the very beginning when when Ethel basically told us that this is how vintage the place is. I mean Henry J. Kaiser hardly anyone knows the name anymore and no one knows that Hawaii is not any Hawaiian name but comes from Kaiser and and all other things that we have covered in many previous shows. And she tells us that Henry J. Kaiser was sitting down there and saying hey this is actually not bad what I did here because he also did the neighboring hotel which he likes this one here better and you agree with him. And then he was saying you know and actually I like it that much that I'm going to do you know stuff like that just over there which was the Kaiser Hawaiian village just next door which is long change. He sold it to Hilton you said pretty soon we have to blame him pretty soon after that predator capitalism but then he basically did entirely different things that went high rise. As you rightly say, and there's none of that old Hawaii if that's fair to say feeling around it anymore. But in this one here absolutely. Yeah, and Henry J. Kaiser opened the Hawaiian village complex in 1955. So, when he was able to come and visit the breakers in 1954. He was already getting started on what he wanted his resort to be but I think you're absolutely right. It's very likely he was influenced because as he continued to build in the 50s. It looked a lot more like what the breakers still looks like but as you also just pointed out everything that was original to the Hawaiian village complex is all been demolished and replaced by newer high rise buildings so there's nothing left of all of that. Yeah, yeah, and that would be slide six if you can look back into that quickly here that's going to portray that kind of situation we're sitting there in the previous show in front of that and down there is the all the other Kaiser things that he did. But the next slide. I number seven I stole from one of your leading segue into this shows where you were talking about small hotels in Waikiki for a doko momo playlist and I took the right to transform it a little more because I grayscaled even the picture he took recently and also cropped it a little bit more. So this is actually looks like these are both historic pictures there are not one is, and the other one is contemporary by the Soto Brown, and he also excited about the signage and we should go to that respective slide here that is number where is that where did that go. Well, the breakers on on its facade to the right of its entryway has brass metal lettering or copper or brass metal lettering custom made that say the word it says the word breakers in a script. That's the original sign that script sign is original from 70 years ago. And that's one of the most remarkable things the breakers has not changed his name. And it still has its original sign and again, as a historian, things like that are very rare. It's very, it's very unusual to find things that have survived that long and I'm really, I find that wonderful. I do that from the point of view of a sustainable architect because that's true sustainability. Everything else is green rush blah blah blah and the turnover of six to seven year what our exotic is. All the experts is on it tells us every six to seven years they throw everything out. They do a renovation or remodeling. They resist this and slide 62 and 63. This is how it used to look like. And only because of the sort of second skins how we call clothing. You can identify that this is actually of course because of the stamp and you are collector of things like that you know immediately this is all right. And if you just say, you look at the architecture of the third skin and the first skin which is the skin we were born with you know they still look the same. You know, human beings will forever look like with that skin that we have on, and these buildings you know they're just timeless. The only the wardrobe so to speak what people wear but they're also very easy breezy dress right. So the previous slide number 61 Apple is kindly showing people around this is this is our students that you had hosted to last semester at your museum we've been covering that. So Apple has been you know is welcoming and she's welcoming us next week kindly. I'm really surprised to see a much larger crowd because this was a small studio now we got 24 students but we'll all fit in somewhere and and again, the legacy is to be continued. That's just, that's just really awesome. This is, if not our favorite, you know, piece of showing off, you know to the world that that Polynesian pop is basically very profound, you know, and besides all the discussions that we will continue next week about, you know, some issues with sexuality and gender issues and discrimination that some young, you know females, rightly so to feel whatever they feel and how they feel have. But we want to add to that and basically said well, you know, here, there's really nothing wrong here on on all levels, everything is actually really right. So why not, again, celebrating that and that's what we're doing and this very special double dipping birthday so show so happy birthday again to you and to you the breakers and to you the solo. And so I think we're at that point to say goodbye but not without walking you around. So this is us in real thanks to Michael been worked into this here in the showing around and give you a better, even better feel and make you go there by yourself and that's right spent spent the weekend there. Staycation if you're on a walk, have a staycation at the breakers staycation and make your own Hawaii toes with Houston's pineapple. Bye bye. Bye.