Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / APRIL 11, 1966
More than 7,000 worshippers overflowed the entrance to the Garden of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific for an Easter sunrise service.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 10, 1962
Harry G. Poe is one of the few Native Hawaiians on Oahu who still toil away in taro patches in the tradition of their ancestors. Poe, 80, who has been growing taro for 52 years, stands in a patch in the parched Waianae Valley.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 14, 1963
Vice squadsman Clyde Springer examines some of the 118 cannabis plants collected by Honolulu police at a home in Kalihi Valley. Two suspected drug violators were arrested in the daytime raid, which followed a three-day stakeout at the property.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 20, 1961
Next time Honolulu experiences hot, muggy days, it’s nice to remember that you could be an employee at Honolulu Iron Works. They have the hottest job in town, working with lavalike molten metal that’s a heat-radiating 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit. The glowing ladle doesn’t cool down until the next morning.STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 25, 1969
Long-distance telephone operator Mary Low and other Hawaiian Telephone Co. employees have their hands full as they work to complete Christmas calls to the mainland.STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 13, 1975
Rocker Alice Cooper relaxes sans his glittery stage getup on a Maui beach. Cooper is a frequent visitor to the Valley Isle, and shoots in the upper 70s at the Royal Kaanapali Golf Course.STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 4, 1980
A patron at Little Orphan Annie’s in the airport area takes a turn on the bar’s mechanical bull, “El Toro,” Hawaii’s first bucking machine.