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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MARCH 27, 1959

Workers for Tajiri Lumber are busy taking apart this structure to make way for the Hawaii Housing Authority’s plans to build a low-income housing project for seniors. The site was the former home of the Normal School and of Stevenson Intermediate School.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 26, 1963

Margie Yaeko Naito, who is fluent in English and Japanese, is one of the young women who have been hired by Pan American World Airways to serve as flight attendants on round-the-world flights. The initiative includes a plan to double the number of flight attendants who can speak Japanese or Cantonese.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 29, 1961

Puanani Aiwohi of Kihei gets a closer look at one of Maui County’s new coastal tidal wave sirens.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 5, 1990

Regular chess and card players have mixed feelings about the city’s plan to replace unauthorized lockers like these at Kuhio Beach Mall.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / MAY 18, 1987

Sculptor Yaacov Agam examines his “Kahala Welcome” work, installed near the entrance to the Kahala Hilton Hotel.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 24, 1959

The uplifting sound of pipes soared through Ala Moana Center as bagpipers from Nanaimo, British Columbia, gave a demonstration of their art before their formal performance at the shopping center.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 3, 1955

John Fulbright’s doglike baboon shows off for the youngsters at Shriners Hospital during a special halfhour circus performance by the 442nd Go for Broke circus troupe, which staged the special show at the hospital for patients who couldn’t travel to the circus site in Waikiki.