The Hawkes Bay area was hit by 2 very large earthquakes on one day in February 1931. As a result the towns of Napier and Hastings had to be rebuilt and this was done in the Art Deco style of the 1920's.
The Hawkes Bay area now has an Art Deco weekend where a lot of the towns people and visitors dress up in styles of the 20's and 30's for the weekend. There are loads of events organised but the biggest is a vintage car parade with probably about 500 vintage cars in the Napier over the weekend.
It is an odd sight to see all there people dressed up in fancy garb. I find it very strange and I am sure the people of the 1930's would also find the sight very odd!! They probably could not have afforded to dress as well!!!
Anyway the townspeople seemed to have lots of fun and it brought a lot of visitors to the area. We are just glad we had accomodation sorted and did not need a motel for the weekend!!
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