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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JUNE 4, 1960

The Chinese Consulate in Makiki would give way to an apartment building after the property was purchased by Los Angeles businessman Billy Veprin.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 17, 1951

Standing in a forest of chairs, Archie H. Eriksson, left, Oahu Prison executive; William R. Okeson, furniture shop superintendent; and Doyle S. Allen, chair shop supervisor, inspect some of the 800 chairs already completed in a lot of 11,500 to be built in the prison shop for Oahu schools.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / APRIL 23, 1981

Henry and Lillian Buscher of Kahala have a vintage gas range that was inherited from Lillian Buscher’s mother. It has two broilers, two ovens, a griddle and a warming oven. An old General Electric fan sits on a shelf mounted on the wall above the six-burner stove-top.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 30, 1959

“We not worried,” says Harriet Patterson, proprietor of lei booth No. 1 on the Lagoon Drive approach to Honolulu Airport. Somehow a rumor got started that the new jet-age terminal would forsake the lei sellers. “They’ll find a place for us,” Harriet said confidently. The Hawaii Aeronautics Commission agreed, saying, “We’ll fi nd a good place for them, you can be sure.”
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 20, 1973

Federal Aviation Administration radar controllers Chester Chang, foreground, and Fred Nakamura maintain positive radar control of all aircraft within several hundred miles of Honolulu. The en route controllers take over until it’s time to hand over an aircraft to another center’s controllers.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 13, 1988

A team from Honolulu Community College, whose raft was outfitted with mannequin heads, managed smiles even though the women had lost a race on Kapalama Canal to a Windward Community College team. A raft parade and race were part of events at Honolulu Community Colleges Month.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JULY 11, 1978

Patrick “Malo” Maldonado and Jocelyn Kiehm show off their disco routine at Valentino’s in Waikiki.
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