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George J. Wimberly

George J. "Pete" Wimberly was an American architect known for his work in Honolulu, Hawaii and for his firm's designs of resorts. He was part of the architectural firm of Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo until his death in 1995.

Projects
Jean Charlot House Honolulu, Hawaii • Waikikian Hotel (1956) • Top's, Coco's and Popo's coffee shops built with "lots of lava rock and an almost cartoonish South-Seas flair." • Hotel Bora Bora that includes thatched huts built on stilts the edge of a lagoon in Tahiti. • Bishop Bank in Waikiki (1951) • Kau Kau Jr. hamburger stand on Nimitz Highway (1956) that included a "little glass kitchen huddled beneath a fantastical, arrow-shaped, concrete-slab roof was certainly Honolulu's most fanciful small building." • Royal Theater (1962) ("shortlived") • Don the Beachcomber bar/restaurant with "big, authentic thatched roofs" on Kaläkaua Avenue • Kalakaua Avenue Shops • original International Market PlaceDuke Kahanamoku's night club, "where Don Ho sang and drank through his salad days." • Bishop National Bank that includes a mural by Jean Charlot (1959) • McInerny department store (1959) and an earlier building on the same site. • Royal Hawaiian Shopping Arcade wooden crescent(1960) • Rattan Art Gallery, a "cooly modernist" building (1947) • Canlis' Restaurant (1954) • Kapi'olani Bowl building on Kapi'olani Boulevard at Ward Avenue (1958), demolished in 1996 • Valley of the Temples Chapel in 'Ähuimanu on the Windward Side (1965) • Foodland supermarket at Windward Shopping Center (1953) in Käne'ohe. • Bank of Hawai'i building, 15-stories (1966) • Sheraton Waikïkï • Sheraton Maui "clinging to the side of a prominent rock outcropping at Kaanapali Beach" (1963) • Kona Hilton, a "primitivist, bony, whitewashed" building "built on a rocky point at Kailua Bay on the Big Island" (1968). • Pago Pago Inter-Continental Hotel with its "authentically constructed thatch beach fale" in American Samoa. • Tahara'a Hotel which is "no taller than three-quarters of a coconut palm" and spills "down a lush hillside above Matavai Bay" in Tahiti. ==Firm's projects==
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