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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

View historic Hawaii photos “back in the day.”

By Star-Advertiser

Sept. 3, 2023

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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 24, 1971

The Society of Seven puts on a swinging show for residents at the Kalanihuia retirement home.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 25, 1957

Among the businessmen chatting on the veranda of the old Pioneer Inn in Lahaina is hotel operator Gwynne Austin, center, who is visiting an upcoming resort center on Maui while on holiday from his own site, the Windsor hotel in Seattle.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 19, 1953

A realistic Hawaiian village is being built in Kauka Hila Park in the Keaukaha homestead area on the Big Island by residents of the homestead. William Haena, left, Gertrude Wiggins and Rose Haena sit in front of a completed home of ahianiu grass over a framework of ohia.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / APRIL 5, 1979

Froggies bookstore on Kalakaua Avenue was founded by a social worker from Oregon, Morgan “Froggie” Griffin, and his wife, who turned a 2,000-square-foot room into a treasure trove of used hardcover and paperback books ranging from fiction to bestsellers to nonfiction.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / NOVEMBER 8, 1976

The Cannon Club at Fort Ruger, a social club for Army officers and their families, offers expansive views day or night.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 23, 1983

Yoroku Ito cultivated this group of mame bonsai trees and also built the stands beneath them to display at the Club 100 bonsai show. The show, hosted by the 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans organization, continues at the club’s headquarters on Kamoku Street.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 15, 1983

Despite a pollution warning from the state Department of Health, Calvin Kapua watches his Lokahi Canoe Club paddlers train in the Ala Wai Canal a day after the city dumped 2.5 million gallons of Waikiki’s raw sewage into the canal because its pumps were disabled by a daylong, islandwide power outage. The Lokahi paddlers had been “wondering how come (the water) was so stink and dirty,” Kapua said. “We know the water is dirty but we didn’t know they dumped raw sewage in here. If any of the canoes fl ip over — which they do — sometimes the paddlers swallow the water, especially the novice paddlers,” Kapua said. He said the signs didn’t say to stay out of the water, notoriously polluted under normal circumstances, and didn’t mention raw sewage. Kapua said he felt offi cials should have done more to get the word out.
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