Sin In Paradise

Sin in ParadiseThe whorehouses in Honolulu were not on the hilltops before the war. In 1939 they were at the opposite pole, in their own segregated area near the water-front. Many of the hilltop Anglos had never seen them. But they were a significant part of the Hawaiian systems with a development story of their own.One afternoon in 1803 a British merchantman was approaching the Islands of Hawaii. At her bow rail stood a sailor who may have been named Thomas Andrew Martin. Tom Martin was a good...