Sent airmail from sun-drenched Honolulu in March 1970, this vivid chrome postcard captures a living tableau at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Oahu — a Maori village chief named Elkington looks on as women in traditional flax skirts play Ti-Ti-Torea, the mesmerizing stick game, while a guitarist in a yellow sarong strums nearby; the intricately carved meeting house behind them anchors the scene in genuine Pacific heritage, and the whole image crackles with the particular mid-century optimism of cultural tourism at its most earnest. Sender Flossie, writing to her friend in Bloomfield, New Jersey, describes triumphantly escaping the post-show crush by taking the limousine tour instead of the bus — home by 10:30, well before the buses even cleared the parking lot. "So crowded!" she concludes, a tiny capsule of 1970 vacation life that makes this card as much a social document as a souvenir.