Recently, I found out that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and Hilo High School had a special connection. It began when the seniors put on an “I Love Lucy” play at the school in 1954. Read more
This summer marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. To honor those who served, I plan to write a series of articles, from the start of the war to the surrender ceremonies onSept. 2, 1945. Read more
This week I thought I’d write about two noteworthy Oahu restaurants that have passed into our rearview mirrors. Read more
This year marks significant anniversaries of many important Hawaii companies and organizations. Here are a few. Read more
Arthur Godfrey had some interesting connections to Hawaii. Hawaii embraced him and in return he embraced us. Read more
Last month marked the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of missionaries to Hawaii from Boston. In researching this article, I learned a few things I hadn’t known previously. Read more
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This week’s column is about people you probably have heard of many times, but my focus is on curious things you probably don’t know about them. Read more
“Hawaii Calls” broadcast weekly from Waikiki to, at one point, 750 radio stations worldwide. It changed forever how the world perceived Hawaii and its music. Read more
We’ve had many historical writers at the newspaper over the years. Two of my favorites were Russell and Peg Apple, who wrote Tales of Old Hawaii in the Star-Bulletin beginning in 1969. Peg died in 1981 and Russ in 1999. Read more
I realized I had a lot of little-known stories about the subject and thought they’d make for an interesting column. Read more
This week I thought I’d respond to several questions readers have asked me. One is about the boat that Natalie Wood died on or near, which ended up in Hawaii. Read more
I cover a wide range of topics in Rearview Mirror: people, places, organizations, sports, the military, schools and even food. But I never thought I’d write a column on toilet paper! Read more
Harold Nagato suggested I do a story on the Manoa War Homes, where Safeway and Longs Drugs stores are now located. “It was built for World War II veterans like my dad,” he said. Read more
The owners of Eki Cyclery on Dillingham Boulevard announced recently that they were closing at the end of this month after 109 years in business. I hate to see venerable old companies shut their doors. Read more
Junior Police Officers, or JPOs, have been an island tradition for as long as I can remember. I found its roots surprisingly go back 98 years to 1922. Read more
Frequent contributor Ken Fujii told me recently that on the Big Island, beef tomato was called tomato beef and shave ice was called ice shave. I wrote about that in my Jan. 17 column. Read more
Sonja Edsman asked me recently when the original Trapp Family Singers first performed in Hawaii. Read more
Recently, Mainard Tom asked if I would write about the first Robert Louis Stevenson Intermediate School, which was located in an old quarry near Alapai and Green streets. Read more
Every year, I write several columns about events and organizations that are passing important milestones. Here are some of the anniversaries taking place this year. Read more
In November I wrote about the 1869 Hawaii visit of Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh. Read more
“It would have been interesting to see what kinds of reactions from the rest of the Hawaiian Islands you would have gotten if you had used ‘ice shave’ in the article,” Ken Fujii said. “Only Big Islanders would understand the obscure term.” Read more
