The Tiny Pineapple Gallery

Hawaii’s Best, America’s Favorite!

Visitors and islanders enjoy sampling ripe fresh Royal Hawaiian pineapple at Dole’s “space age” fruit stand in the middle of the fields at Wahiawa.

HAWAIIAN LANDMARK — Looming high on Honolulu’s skyline is the “world’s largest pineapple,” which each year guides many thousands of visitors to the world’s largest fruit cannery, home of famed Dole products. The “pineapple” is actually a company-owned water reservoir—capacity 100,000 gallons.

A familiar Honolulu landmark is this 100,000 gallon water tank on top of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company plant, the world’s largest fruit packing establishment, in which as many as 4,335,726 cans of DOLE Hawaiian Pineapple Products have been put up in a single day.

According to the caption, this is a “Natural Color Photograph.”

Prepare topping first.

• Melt 3 tbsps. butter or margarine in 9” round or 8”x8”x2” square pan.
• Sprinkle with ½ cup brown sugar.
• Over sugar arrange 4 slices Dole pineapple and Maraschino cherries.

Set aside while mixing cake part.

• Cream 1⁄3 cup shortening with ½ cup sugar.
• Add 1 egg, unbeaten, and 1 tsp. vanilla.
• Sift together 1¼ cups sifted flour, ¼ tsp. salt, 1½ tsps. baking powder.
• Add to first mixture alternately with ½ cup syrup drained from pineapple, beating smooth after each addition.
• Spread batter over pineapple in pan and bake in moderate oven (350°) 50 to 60 min.
• Turn out on plate, serve warm with whipped cream.

Serves 6 to 8.

This postcard is in honor of Chronicler’s Kitchen Krafts find. I haven’t tried the recipe yet, but surely any company-sponsored recipe found on the back of a cheap, hyper-saturated, out-of-register postcard from the mid-60s has got to be delicious, right?

Visitors and islanders enjoy sampling ripe fresh Royal Hawaiian pineapple at Dole’s “space age” fruit stand in the middle of fields at Wahiawa.

The famous Dole Pineapple Stand — Key stop on all the “Around Oahu” Tours — Pineapple never tastes better than freshly picked and chilled.

The Dole “pineapple” water tower was one of the distinguishing landmarks on the Honolulu cityscape for more than 60 years. Standing more than a hundred feet tall, including the office building it was attached to, it was one of the tallest structures on Oahu prior to World War II.

Designed and erected in 1927, it held 100,000 gallons of water and weighed 30 tons. It was better known than the “peach” water towers of Clanton, Ala., and Gaffney, S.C.; than the giant Brooks Foods ketchup-bottle water tower of Cillinsville, Ill.; even better known than the Libby Foods ear-of-corn water tower in Rochester, Minn.

Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Dole guides pose beneath the pineapple water tower, a famous Honolulu landmark. More than 100,000 visitors each year tour spick-and-span Dole “kitchen”, the world’s largest fruit cannery. Jim Dole started Hawaii’s pineapple industry in 1901.