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The resort is best known in movie lore as the location where Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman’s characters married in the 1961 movie “Blue Hawaii.”

The resort is best known in movie lore as the location where Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman’s characters married in the 1961 movie “Blue Hawaii.”

The resort is best known in movie lore as the location where Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman’s characters married in the 1961 movie “Blue Hawaii.”

Contractors hired by the developers recently installed a dust barrier and cleared dead trees, overgrown brush and palm fronds from the property to prepare for demolition.

The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel

The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel

The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel

Demolition will soon begin on a resort once favored by Elvis Presley and other Hollywood royalty before it was heavily damaged by a hurricane three decades ago

The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel

The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel