This Was Papeete Of Yesterday
p. 87 · Read in the full issue
These interesting old photos from the collection of Oscar G.
Nordman will bring nostalgic memories to those few who knew Papeete 40 years ago—and to others who have enjoyed their Tahiti from an armchair with the aid of the books of Frederick O’Brien.
Top is the famous Tiare Hotel, long since demolished but once the social centre of Papeete’s foreign colony—though they were not looked on as foreigners in those days.
Below, the equally famous Annex or Aina Pare where lived the overflow from the Tiare Hotel. The home of Mr. Emile Martin, a leading Papeete citizen, now stands on this site.
Of this trio, Lovaina, the much-loved hostess of the Tiare establishment is on
the left, and her sister, Flora, on the right. The identity of the gentleman is not known. Lovalna died in the in fluenza epidemic which followed World War I. Flora’s husband, Captain George Dexter. was lost in the schooner “Tahltlenne” in the 1906 hurricane in the Tuamotus. He was master of this and other well-known Tahiti schooners of the past.