The Honolulu Police Museum is a one room museum located within the Honolulu Police Headquarters. You

In the Charlie Chan film The Black Camel (1931) , Shelah Fane ( Dorothy Revier ) has an appointment to meet with Tarneverro ( Bela Lugosi ), a mystic, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. This meeting starts a chain of events that ultimately leads to Shelah's murder and Charlie Chan's ( Warner Oland ) investigation of the crime. adventure travel vacation The hotel is also where Charlie Chan meets with Tarneverro to talk about actor Danny Mayo's murder. Tarneverro is meeting with Shelah Fane to talk about the same thing. And the mystery begins.
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel is a big deal. Not only was it the filming location for The Black Camel (1931) and other films, it's also where all the major classic Hollywood movie stars stayed when they came to visit Oahu. This hotel housed the entire cast of From Here to Eternity (1954) when they were filming on the island. This was definitely one of the places I wanted to visit and it's connection with Charlie Chan intrigued adventure travel vacation me more.
My comparison shots are not the best because I hadn't seen the film before going to Oahu. But I thought I'd still share some interior screen adventure travel vacation shots from the film with pictures I took of the lobby and patio.
This is an old photograph of Charlie Chan author Earl Derr Biggers posing on the patio of the Royal Hawaiian hotel with a random guy posing as his famous character. Because of the bird cage, I'm assuming this photograph was in part publicity for the Charlie Chan novel The Chinese Parrot.
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel is absolutely stunning. If you are ever in Honolulu, just wander through the lobby, the patio, the garden in the front and the path leading to Waikiki Beach in the back. If you have a lot of cash burning a whole through your pocket, stay there!
The last Charlie Chan location I would like to talk about is the Honolulu Police Museum. adventure travel vacation Why yes. I went to a police museum on my honeymoon. I'm lucky to have married Carlos because he thought it was really cool (and not very weird) that I wanted to go to this museum. Not only that, he ended up having more fun there than I did!
The Honolulu Police Museum is a one room museum located within the Honolulu Police Headquarters. You can visit any weekday from between the hours of 9 am and 3 pm and you can request a tour. We opted to just browse the museum on our own. Entrance to the museum is free. You just need to be screened before entering the building. We left a donation for one of the Police Department's charities.
The Chang Apana/Charlie Chan portion of the exhibit was small but a good size in comparison to the museum as a whole. It featured adventure travel vacation lots of photos of Chang Apana as well as some Charlie Chan memorabilia including a first edition copy of House Without a Key, the first Charlie Chan novel.
On the right you'll see Chang Apana's leather horsewhip which he often used on criminals he captured. Apana was a cowboy adventure travel vacation when he was younger and his experience wrangling cows and horses helped him do the same with criminals later on.
How cool that the police museum has an exhibit related to Charlie Chan! I wonder how many tourists adventure travel vacation to the island miss this exhibit or don t have the classic film interest to appreciate the exhibit? Great pics of the hotel too. Reply Delete Add comment Load more...
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