False Advertising???

While perusing an old copy of National Geographic from 1981, I came across this ad that extolled the virtues of the Island Paradise of Hawaii. The only problem is, the island shown in the ad is not in Hawaii at all, but is actually the island of Moorea, which is right next door to Tahiti in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It's several thousand miles from Hawaii. Now I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that if I were placing an ad in a magazine called National Geographic, I'd try to get the geography right. And then there is the issue of why did National Geographic agree to run the ad? Shouldn't they know the difference and point it out?

What got me going on this was watching an episode of Biography in which the subject was Conrad Hilton and they were talking about and showing photos of all of the hotels he bought in texas in his early days as a hotelier. In that segment, they showed a building in Terlingua that was never a hotel and was never owned by Conrad Hilton, but I guess they used it anyway because it was interesting looking and they figured nobody would notice. It was actually a mansion built by mine owner Howard E. Perry. Makes me wonder if it's now acceptable to make documentaries by just making stuff up.

The abandoned Perry Mansion

CORRECTION: I am informed by someone who knows that the Perry Mansion Ruins were made habitable...1 room only, and it was rented out to tourists, thereby making it a hotel...sort of. But Conrad Hilton had nothing to do with the place.