Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past














STARADVERTISER / MARCH 3, 1977
The USS Constellation glides into Pearl Harbor Channel as a youngster watches from Hospital Point. The 80,000-ton, 1,702-foot Constellation was among 26 ships from four navies parading into Pearl Harbor after major “war games” in Hawaii waters.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 10, 1977
A $3 million complex of restaurants and shops is planned for this corner of Kalaheo Avenue and Mokapu Boulevard in Kailua. The project calls for construction of a new one-story building on the site of the Pali Palms Hotel, which will be demolished.STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 23, 1972
Children from the Kalihi Palama Model Cities area watch dolphins put on a show during their visit to the Kahala Hilton.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 29, 1968
Hundreds of children will give up their usual Halloween trick-or-treat for candy to collect coins for charity, working on behalf of UNICEF. Derrick Sakai, left, Glenn Uemura, Susie Wong and Doreen Sakai show off their costumes and the UNICEF collection boxes.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JUNE 10, 1988
Renee Edralin displays the special-delivery bottle she found washed up on the beach in Waimanalo. The bottle’s sender, now a high school graduate in Japan, hopes to follow the bottle’s route to Hawaii one day.STARADVERTISER / MARCH 25, 1965
Squeaky the house cat gets playful with Gelhak the cheetah. The cheetah, about 2 years old, is a pet at the Kailua home of Bishop Museum entomologist Lawrence W. Quate and his family. Hawaii’s only privately owned cheetah was found by Quate in Sudan in 1963, tied to a bed in a mud hut, starving and near death. Gelhak is now 90 pounds but is gentle and affectionate, with a “funny little squeak,” Quate says. Neighborhood curiosity and concern have died down, and the only trouble is that family dog Aki sometimes pesters Gelhak and the cheetah has put on a bit too much weight on its diet of three pounds of raw meat a day.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 8, 1981
Curious passersby watch as a wrecking ball smashes the facade of the 77-year-old Alexander Young building on Bishop Street.