Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past
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STARADVERTISER / NOVEMBER 26, 1970
Mrs. Charles Norwood of Wahiawa and her children, Raoul, Toi and Rosie, look at a replica of Plymouth Rock included in a display about the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony that the McInerny store at Ala Moana Center set up to get shoppers into the Thanksgiving spirit.2/7
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STARADVERTISER / AUGUST 4, 1977
Ginger Krauss stands with pack horse Primo on Sliding Sands Trail in Haleakala Crater on Maui. Krauss and her father, longtime Honolulu Advertiser columnist and author Bob Krauss, are part of an 11-person expedition trekking 250 miles around Maui on foot and horseback following a guidebook written in 1875 by Advertiser founder Henry M. Whitney.3/7
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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 30, 1977
The price of sashimi at many fish markets is a few cents lower than a year ago. Ruth Horimoto, owner of Horimoto Fish Market in the Ala Moana farmers market, holds a fillet of aku priced at $3.10 a pound alongside different grades of ahi.4/7
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STARADVERTISER / OCTOBER 23, 1964
The Female Beatles have arrived to open Waikiki’s first discotheque nightclub, Reilly’s Au-Go-Go. The establishment at Kalakaua and Kuhio avenues is owned by Betty Reilly, who also owns the Copacabana.5/7
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STARADVERTISER / NOVEMBER 1, 1962
Play has begun in the regional Hawaii championships of the American Contract Bridge League at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel. Five trophies are at stake in four days of events.6/7
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STARADVERTISER / JANUARY 2, 1982
A samurai and a witch rouse sleepy residents lining the loop road in Lanikai during the Jan. 1 Woes Parade, part of the community’s annual “Recovery Day” celebration.7/7
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STARADVERTISER / MARCH 24, 1975
Laundry dries in the sun aboard a boat home at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.
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