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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

By Star-Advertiser

June 25, 2023

Hawaii Photos

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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 23, 1989

Ron Norwood thumbs through the CD rack at Tower Records in search of his favorite group.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 17, 1985

Richard Thalheimer, creator and owner of The Sharper Image, demonstrates his $99 pogo stick in front of the new Ala Moana Center store.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MAY 14, 1973

An aerial view shows the majority of Salt Lake, with construction starting on land to the left of the lake.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 17, 1963

Castle & Cooke’s Royal Hawaiian macadamia nuts are going to market this year in cities like New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Los Angeles. This banding station is in a newly completed addition to the company’s Big Island factory in Keaau.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MAY 4, 1980

From the outside, S&T Properties Inc. might suggest a real estate office; inside, though, visitors will find an old-fashioned lunch counter, a pinball gallery and even customers on occasion.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 5, 1950

The famous Ginaca machine, named for an employee of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. who invented it in 1913, removes the shell, core and ends of a pineapple, leaving the fruit in cylindrical form. The fruit proceeds to trimming and packing while the other pieces go to the byproducts mill. The Ginaca machine can process 85 to 105 pineapples a minute.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 25, 1965

The fortunes in fortune cookies aren’t the world’s greatest literary compositions, but they do provide fun and surprises. This one reads, “Are you mad, glad, sad or bad? No, I ain’t.”
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