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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

By Star-Advertiser

Feb. 13, 2022

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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 11, 1961

Officers and trustees of the See Dai Doo Society attend a groundbreaking for the society’s new building at Fort and Kukui streets in Chinatown. High priest See Hop Lee officiated at the ceremony, which included cleansing the property of evil spirits and dedicating the three-story, 7,000-square-foot building in the time-honored Chinese manner.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 18, 1989

Maybe back in Portland, Ore., Stephen Hall is accustomed to feeding birds, or perhaps he’s never seen anything like Kapiolani Park’s flocks of pigeons. Either way, these street-wise birds know a soft touch when they see one.
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STARADVERTISER / MARCH 21, 1962

A McCully Fire Station rescue squad practices with aquatic lifesaving equipment, including a portable pulley-and-line and an inflated rubber tube. The team includes, from left, Antone Pai, Moses Kaina, Capt. Abraham Kuni, Clifford Moniz, Lt. Abraham Akau and Melvin Nonaka.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 13, 1979

People line up at the corner of Metcalf Street and University Avenue to order a meal from Grace’s Lunch Wagon, where the hamburger steak is best.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 10, 1988

Leon Bruno, director of the Lyman Museum in Hilo, has put about $19,000 of his own money into restoring this sampan bus.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 5, 1960

Walter Y. Kitsu, general foreman, takes a sighting near the edge of the under-construction La Ronde restaurant atop the Ala Moana Building. The revolving restaurant will extend 16 feet beyond the edge of the building’s 23rd floor. In the background is the Kapiolani Drive-In Theater, which was Hawaii’s first drive-in theater when it opened in 1949 and which was closed and demolished in 1962.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MAY 26, 1979

Every weekday morning, counselors with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “700 Club” program man seven telephones to talk to Hawaii viewers — most of whom call with requests for prayer — at the club’s headquarters above Le Bon restaurant on Kapiolani Boulevard.
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