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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 26, 1981

A Singapore Airlines flight attendant shows off the carrier’s new slot machines on Flight SQ 2, which landed in Honolulu en route to San Francisco. The five slot machines on board, available during flights to passengers 18 years or older, will be given a two-month test. If the “one-armed bandits” prove popular, they’ll be placed on all 15 of Singapore Airlines’ planes.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / APRIL 6, 1970

Wrecking cranes tear into a Honolulu landmark as the dome of the American Factors building is being demolished. The structure is being razed to make room for a new building.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 9, 1963

A fire at Aiea Elementary School destroyed 12 classrooms, the auditorium, the library and most restrooms. Students temporarily attended classes at Aiea Methodist Church’s Sunday school rooms and at Halawa School. Above, teacher Edith Lee and Principal Harry Hale watch as third grade students clean erasers outside their temporary quarters, a quonset hut at Halawa School.
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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 18, 1964

If signs mean anything, there’s at least one form of segregation in Hawaii. The arrows at Fort DeRussy indicate that part of the beach is reserved for enlisted men and part for officers. The Army says, however, that the signs don’t mean exactly that. A spokesman explains that they are intended only to point the way to segregated bath houses and that the beach itself isn’t segregated.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JUNE 24, 1981

Yesterday was the last day of business at Everybody’s Super Market at Kapiolani Boulevard and McCully Street. The land has been subleased to Host Duty Free operations by Chun Hoon Ltd., which owns Chun Hoon’s and Everybody’s Markets. By noon yesterday, the shelves at Everybody’s were half empty. Every item was discounted 20%, and there was a steady stream of customers going in and out of the store. Some of them came to say goodbye to old friends — the clerks, cashiers and butchers.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 8, 1991

Leonard Chung, president of the Hawaii chapter of the Antique Radio Club of America, tries to tune a 1922 Chelsea radio at the Hawaii All-Collectors show at Blaisdell Center. He’s listening on a 1916 headset built by C. Brandes Inc., New York.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 10, 1966

The president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, suddenly stopped his motorcade on the way back from church Sunday so he could gulp a cupful of ice milk from this stand at 2494 Kalakaua Ave. and this sign is to make sure you don’t forget it.
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