Rainmaker Hotel
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Rainmaker Hotel was a 250-room luxury hotel in Utule'i, Pago Pago, American Samoa
.It was the only proper hotel in American Samoa and was operated by the government. The hotel was at its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was known as the Pacific's Intercontinental Hotel.The hotel was once refurbished by Drabbles at a cost of about $2.5 million. The thatched roof building is now a private accommodation.
In 1980, an air disaster occurred when a US Navy plane hit the cables and crashed into the hotel, killing the six servicemen aboard and two tourists who were staying at the hotel.The hotel manager reportedly refused for a memorial to be erected inside the hotel grounds.
The hotel hosted most of the Miss Island Queen Pageant
competitions between 1987 and 2001.
American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...
.It was the only proper hotel in American Samoa and was operated by the government. The hotel was at its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was known as the Pacific's Intercontinental Hotel.The hotel was once refurbished by Drabbles at a cost of about $2.5 million. The thatched roof building is now a private accommodation.
In 1980, an air disaster occurred when a US Navy plane hit the cables and crashed into the hotel, killing the six servicemen aboard and two tourists who were staying at the hotel.The hotel manager reportedly refused for a memorial to be erected inside the hotel grounds.
The hotel hosted most of the Miss Island Queen Pageant
Miss Island Queen Pageant
Miss Island Queen is a fa'afafine pageant held annually in American Samoa since 1979. The pageant was established by the American Samoa Island Queens Association, an alliance of the growing fa'afafine population fostering community service aiding to maintain a positive acceptance of fa'afafine's...
competitions between 1987 and 2001.