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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 9, 1970

Joseph Hoohuli, a sixth grader at Nanaikapono Elementary School, demonstrates his battery-powered tree, a string of lights that illuminates a stack of snow-flecked tin cans.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 14, 1957

Juvenile delinquents at Koolau Training School for Boys break rocks for a new road. Every inmate gets 30 days of such labor.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 24, 1960

John W. Hoxie, treasurer of the Oahu Tuberculosis and Health Association, was the first customer for the new after-hours X-ray unit at Wahiawa Rural Hospital. He was assisted by nurse Marguerite Nobuhara.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 16, 1978

Victoria Barrera, right, washes and trims the cooked taro at the Honolulu Poi Factory. The taro later is fed through a hopper into a grinding machine.
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STARADVERTISER / MARCH 30, 1973

Foresters Hall, a memento of Honolulu’s past near the corner of Alapai and Lusitana streets just makai of the freeway, will soon be razed to make way for a 12-story, 83-unit condominium. The hall served as headquarters for a succession of fraternal and benevolent associations and as a venue for a variety of public affairs, including dances.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 4, 1973

Roland Kouke, second from left, and his friends — Jay White, left, Harold Fenton and Kurt Mench — were able to wrangle and spear a 450-pound sea bass off West Molokai that Kouke encountered while he was swimming 30 feet below the surface.
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STARADVERTISER / MARCH 31, 1989

Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos and tobacco heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke attend the 26th annual Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition in Hilo.
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