They Are Up To Date in Honolulu

Many people labor under the illusion that Hawaii is not a part of the United States and that they do things in a primitive way down there. Such people are wrong on both counts, and when it comes to building and building materials they are just as modern and up to date as California. Perhaps we can even learn a thing or two from them.

For example, the accompanying sketch shows the interior of the Town and Country Shop in Honolulu, which, from a standpoint of design and equipment, is just as modern as anything you will find on Fifth Avenue, New York, or Grant Avenue, San Francisco.

To attain the unusual artistic effects, NIr. Lewis E. Davis, the architect, has used the new structural insulation board, Canec. The doors in the cabinets have panels of this material which, because of its unusual characteristics lends itself ideally to such work. Mr. Davis is quoted as saying "Now I have found an insulation board which I can really do something with-one that is really workable."

A number of other jobs in Honolulu are being reported as having used Canec, notably the new S. H. Kress Company Building, the Roosevelt School, the Nuuano Roman Catholic Church, and also extensively in construction work by the U. S. Army in Hawaii.