Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past
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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 2, 1970
Wilcox Memorial Hospital will launch a community fundraising drive aimed at raising $900,000 to offset additional costs of its current $4 million expansion program. The new four-story wing will ease the pressing demand for hospital beds on Kauai, according to hospital Administrator Philip Coke.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 14, 1992
Kapiolani Park is good for more than just jogging. Dale Neff takes it easy in the park repairing a fishing net he made. Neff says he learned to make nets while living in Kona and that it makes a nice hobby.STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 8, 1988
Trikes for tykes were lined up last night at the Pacific Club as part of the annual Toys for Tots event sponsored by the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm. Doing the honors were Jack Baker, left, retired Coopers & Lybrand partner; Lt. Gen. D’Wayne Gray, commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific; and Art Tokin, Coopers & Lybrand partner.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 26, 1967
Two cranes and 10 men erected a 40-ton “instant bridge” across King Street in downtown Honolulu. The temporary bridge, measuring 80 feet long and 8 feet wide, was made from a single piece of precast concrete and was used to transfer equipment between Bank of Hawaii’s headquarters and the Plaza and Bishop Trust building. It was later removed.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 20, 1957
At the University of Hawaii Marine Laboratory on Coconut Island, Paul Saltman, right, slices fish liver for Howard Boroughs to put into radioactive zinc as they study the processes of accumulation of zinc in fish. Saltman, an assistant chemistry professor at the University of California Medical School, is at UH for the summer conducting experiments. Boroughs is in charge of radioscope research.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 28, 1950
A specially fitted ambulance now in operation in New York and adjacent beaches was devised by Dr. Paluel J. Flagg, president of the society for the prevention of asphyxial death, and named “Waikiki Beach Patrol” after Flagg’s visit to Honolulu in January 1949 where he demonstrated first aid at Waikiki. He’s shown at left with a mock patient in the vehicle and his son James.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JANUARY 30, 1968
Tiny flower basket bearers added a colorful touch to the Chinese New Year procession in the downtown streets of Chinatown.