Honolulu's Black Cat Cafe-- Part 2:

One very popular concession they had at the Black Cat was the photo gallery where the men could pose for photographs with "hula girls" to send to their families back home.  "Look Mom, I'm in Hawaii!!  Wish You Were Here."

But, for the servicemen, the food was the Big Thing!!  After the war, eating at the Black Cat was one of the sailor's most remembered times of their Hawaiian experience. Prices were rock bottom.

The menu in 1941 listed hot dogs at 10 cents, hamburgers at 15 cents, a roast turkey dinner for 50 cents, and the most expensive  item was the porterhouse steak with mushrooms for a dollar.

One veteran reminisced:  ... the prices at the Black Cat were about the cheapest you could find anywhere, and we would go over and eat breakfast ... as a matter of fact  we would eat all our meals there.  All the sailors knew about the Black Cat."

For those stationed in Hawaii  during the war it was truly "hotsy-totsy" with gravy.

--GreGen