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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

View historic Hawaii photos “back in the day.”

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Today • Updated 12:03 a.m.

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STARADVERTISER / APRIL 5, 1988

State Senate Vice President Patsy Young watches as “Magnum, P.I.” star Tom Selleck issues a warning to state legislators that the salad days of Hawaii’s film industry might be over unless a studio is made available at reasonable rates.
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STARADVERTISER / NOVEMBER 26, 1964

Masaichi Goto, bookstore manager at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, tries to find more display room for books. The campus store mostly operates on a self-service basis.
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STARADVERTISER / FEB. 2, 1979

Weary but happy sugar negotiators sign a memorandum that paves the way for ratification votes by 7,500 ILWU members at 15 companies. The sugar contract is for one year and expires in January 1980.
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STARADVERTISER / APRIL 14, 1989

Sisters from across the state and Rome look through the window of St. Philomena Church to get a better view of a ceremony taking place outside.
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STARADVERTISER / FEB. 27, 1988

Molokai firefighter Wren Wescott stands next to a 100-year-old steam engine that he helped restore, part of the R.W. Meyer Sugar Mill being set up at the fledgling Molokai Museum and Cultural Center near Kualapuu, where it will reside. Built by Edwin Maw in Liverpool, England, between 1855 and 1870 and operated on Molokai for a decade by Meyer starting in 1889, it was the last animal-powered sugar mill in Hawaii. The mill had sat rusty and neglected at the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. on Maui. HC&S mechanics, assisted by Maui’s Pioneer Mill and volunteers working at Puna Biomass Co. and Hamakua Sugar Plantation on the Big Island; Oahu Sugar Co.; and Olokele Sugar Co., Kekaha Sugar Co. and McBryde Sugar Co. on Kauai helped lovingly restore it, fabricating missing and broken parts from scratch.
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STARADVERTISER / OCTOBER 14, 1964

Two kendo competitors square off in an exhibition at the Young Buddhist Association of Honolulu hall as part of the United Japanese Society of Hawaii’s annual Natsu Matsuri (summer festival).
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STARADVERTISER / JANUARY 17, 1960

The Y Square Wheelers hit the dance floor at the downtown Armed Services Young Men’s Christian Association facility on South Hotel Street.
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