143: Matson Line national magazine advertisement, ca. 1957, mentioning Matson's flagships the SS Lurline and SS Matsonia, which carried tens of thousands of visitors to and from Hawaii in the Thirties, Forties and Fifties but were ultimately put out of service with the advent of mass travel by air. It's said that when you approach Hawaii by sea long before you see land you can smell the fragrance of its flowers... Try that on a plane...
