1. George Lycurgus was a Greek American businessman who played an influential role in the early tourist industry of Hawaii.
22 Facts About George Lycurgus
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George Lycurgus became friends with the sons of Claus Spreckels, whose family owned the Oceanic Steamship Company and a sugar cane business in Hawaii.
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George Lycurgus spent only a week in Hawaii, but must have enjoyed the stay, since he took more trips and spent more time on the islands.
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George Lycurgus leased the small guest house of Allen Herbert in 1893 on Waikiki beach in Honolulu.
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George Lycurgus expanded it and renamed it the "Sans Souci" for the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam.
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In 1894 Lycurgus made his first trip to the Kilauea volcano with Admiral Royal R Ingersoll, sailing to Hilo aboard the USS Philadelphia.
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The new government, controlled by conservative missionaries, fined George Lycurgus for selling liquor at his resort.
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George Lycurgus was arrested, charged with treason, spent 52 days in jail, but was never tried.
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George Lycurgus entertained press correspondents on their way to the Philippines at his Sans Souci hotel.
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Hawaii was annexed as a territory of the United States that year and the practical George Lycurgus applied for American citizenship.
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George Lycurgus opened a restaurant called the Union Grill in Honolulu in 1901 and would hold "Jailbirds of 1895" nights which were not popular with the new government.
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George Lycurgus phased out of the politics of Honolulu over the next few years.
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George Lycurgus was probably the first Greek woman in Hawaii.
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Kilauea had been inactive for almost a year, but George Lycurgus had other enterprises to keep himself afloat.
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The George Lycurgus family raised money to build a small building next to the hotel for scientific instruments.
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In 1919, Demosthenes George Lycurgus traveled to Athens to marry Maria Yatrakos, but died of influenza within a week of his wedding in the 1918 flu pandemic.
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Finally George Lycurgus was able to return to Hawaii in 1920 with his sister-in-law Poppy Detor.
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In 1921 George Lycurgus sold the Volcano House and moved to Hilo, Hawaii.
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George Lycurgus bought it back for $300 in a receivership sale, but very few guests showed up until an eruption in 1934.
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George Lycurgus started the tradition of tossing gin bottles into the volcano, a practice certainly not approved by park officials.
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George Lycurgus reopened the new Volcano House by November 1941.
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George Lycurgus died on August 6,1960, at the age of 101, reportedly the oldest man in Hawaii.