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Luau Theme Baby Shower
Luau Theme Baby Shower
Put a Hawaiian touch on your baby shower by having a Luau themed celebration. For your next Luau
Party check out the Hawaiian
Murphy's Law. Play the Limbo game. Be sure to include Hawaiian
Luau Music for your Hawaiian
Party. Below are lots of great facts about Hawaii that you can
talk about during your Hawaiian Luau event. Cute Luau
Decorations will add to the atmosphere putting everyone in the Aloha
mood. Use Luau
Invitations to set the tone and theme of your occasion. Below are some facts about Hawaii that make for an interesting conversion. Also, use the information to create Trivia games. Have
party games and Luau
Party Ideas set up prior to the party. Give the guests Luau party favors as a thank you for coming gift. Interesting Luau Party Supplies are now available online saving you time and gas.
Have a great time at your Tropical
Luau Party!
A Timeline of Construction in Hawaii
1837 First public streets are laid out in Honolulu.
1849 One of the earliest residential subdivisions in the Islands is laid out in Honolulu in the area approximately bordered by the current streets of Alapai, Kinau, King and Punahou (Makiki Stream).
1860 Queen's Hospital opens its initial, 124-bed, coral stone building on Punchbowl Street in Honolulu.
1871 The Kamehameha V Post Office is completed at Bethel & Merchant streets in Honolulu. It is the first structure in Honolulu built largely of cement.
1876 Construction is completed on the Maui Hamakua-Haiku Ditch, built to supply irrigation water to Alexander & Baldwin's sugar lands.
1882 Iolani Palace is completed. The Palace features electric lights and telephones several years before such technology is available in the White House.
1886 The Islands' first building permit requirements are imposed in the central Honolulu area between Kalihi and Manoa.
1892 Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum opens.
1898 Construction of Pali Road is completed.
1899 Construction of Honolulu's first sewer system begins.
1901 Hawaii’s first skyscraper, the six-story Stangenwald Building is completed on Richards Street in downtown Honolulu.
1901 The new Moana Hotel becomes Hawaii's first large resort hotel.
1903 The Alexander Young is completed. At six stories it is Hawaii’s first high-rise hotel.
1903 Completion of the Pacific Cable. This technological event breaks Hawaii’s isolation by connecting it to the Mainland U.S. and the rest of the world. The cable is a mainstay of communications into the early 1950s when newer technology rendered it obsolete.
1906 Hawaiian Pineapple Company’s Iwilei (Honolulu) cannery completed.
1910 The College of Hawaii Observatory, Hawaii's first astronomical observatory becomes operational in Honolulu’s Kaimuki district, featuring a 6-intch telescope.
1916 The Waiahole ditch and tunnel system to transport water from the Koolau Mountains to the sugar lands of leeward Oahu is completed. The main trans-Koolau tunnel is 2.76 miles long.
1921 Reclamation of swampland in Waikiki begins, marking the beginning of its evolution into one of the world’s premier resort destinations.
1926 Ten-story Aloha Tower is completed, reaching 184 feet, making it the tallest building in the State.
1926 The Honolulu Stadium, Hawaii's first large sports stadium, opens in Honolulu’s Moiliili District. Years later the wooden structure would become affectionately known as the Termite Palace.
1927 John Rodgers Airport in Honolulu is completed, later to become the Honolulu International Airport.
1927 The Royal Hawaiian Hotel opens in Waikiki.
1927 The Hawaiian Pineapple Company adds a 199-foot water tower to its Iwilei cannery, shaped and decorated in the form of a giant pineapple.
1927 Natatorium War Memorial opens.
1940 Kamehameha Homes, the first public housing project in Hawaii is built by Hawaii Housing Authority near Farrington High School in Kalihi (Honolulu).
1942 Military fuel storage tanks built 450 feet under Red Hill between Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. Twenty tanks, each measuring 250 feet tall by 100 feet in diameter (larger than Aloha Tower) are hollowed out of solid rock under the hill. Site is on the list of National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.
1947 Aloha Shopping Center opens on Farrington Highway in Waipahu, the first planned integrated shopping center in Hawaii.
1948 Tripler Army Hospital is completed (fourteen stories, 189 feet).
1951 First tunnel constructed on a public highway in Hawaii is built as part of the Lahaina-Wailuku Road on Maui (286 ft. long).
1953 First freeway constructed in Hawaii is the Mauka Arterial through central Honolulu. It later became known as the Lunalilo Freeway and eventually part of the H-1 Freeway.
1956 Mees Solar Observatory is constructed on the summit of Maui’s Haleakala.
1957 Hawaiian Village Hotel in Waikiki builds one of the world’s first geodesic domes as an auditorium. Structure is demolished in 1999 to make way for hotel expansion.
1959 Nuuanu Pali Tunnels of the new Pali Highway are completed.
1959 Ala Moana Shopping Center opens in Honolulu.
1960 Wilson Tunnel completed as part of the Likelike Highway linking Honolulu and Kaneohe.
1961 First condominium project in Hawaii is approved; a 12-story apartment structure on Kalakaua Avenue.
1961 The La Ronde revolving restaurant is completed atop the Ala Moana Building next to the Ala Moana Shopping Center.
1962 Sheraton Maui Kaanapali Beach Resort opens, beginning the West Maui resort investment era.
1964 An $84 million undersea cable between Hawaii and Tokyo is put into operation.
1965 Laurance Rockefeller’s Mauna Kea Beach Resort opens on the South Kohala Coast of the Big Island, the beginning of the South Kohala, North Kona resort investment era.
1969 University of Hawaii initiates the age of astronomy on the Big Island’s Mauna Kea with a 24 inch (.6m) optical telescope facility.
1969 The Hawaii State Capitol building is completed.
1974 Construction of H-3 Freeway linking Kaneohe to Pearl Harbor is begun.
1975 Aloha Stadium (50,000 seats, costing $32 million) opens in Halawa, Oahu near Pearl Harbor.
1976 First geothermal well in Hawaii (named HGP-A) produces steam. The 6,140 feet deep well in the Big Island’s Puna district is found to be among the hottest in the world and six years later begins powering a 3-megawatt electric generating plant.
1977 The $80 million reef runway at the Honolulu Airport is completed.
1979 The world’s first at-sea Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plant is operational off of Keahole Point, Kona on the Big Island.
1979 The first all light gauge steel frame residential structures (ten housing units), are built by Galante Construction for Hawaii Housing Authority.
1991 W.M. Keck I optical/infrared telescope became operational on Mauna Kea.
1996 The world's most powerful telescope to date, the W.M. Keck II, 10 meter optical/infrared facility is completed at the University of Hawaii's Mauna Kea Science Reserve.
1996 Hawaii's tallest building and first to exceed 400 feet, the First Hawaiian Center is completed (438 ft.).
1997 H-3 Freeway opens after more than 20 years.
1997 Hawaii Convention Center completed on the west edge of Waikiki.
1998 The 4,700 foot, $78 million Ford Island Bridge is completed, providing the first highway link to the Island.
2000 (under construction) The Smithsonian/Taiwan 8 meter submillileter Array Observatory will become the 13th facility in the Mauna Kea Science Park.
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