- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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May 1, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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April 24, 2020
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“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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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April 17, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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April 10, 2020
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I realized I had a lot of little-known stories about the subject and thought they’d make for an interesting column.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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April 3, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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March 27, 2020
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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!
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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March 20, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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March 13, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 28, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 21, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 14, 2020
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Sonja Edsman asked me recently when the original Trapp Family Singers first performed in Hawaii.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 7, 2020
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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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 31, 2020
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.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 24, 2020
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In November I wrote about the 1869 Hawaii visit of Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 17, 2020
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“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.”
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 10, 2020
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‘Honolulu’s celebration of the new year, culminating at the stroke of midnight, took most of the vociferous energy out of the city’s population, with the result that yesterday was a very quiet and subdued holiday,” The Honolulu Advertiser wrote.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 3, 2020
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I take a lot of things for granted. For instance, the major road around Oahu is called Kamehameha Highway. I assumed that was always its name.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 27, 2019
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My last column of the year gives out my annual Rearview Mirror Awards to people who have made a difference in Hawaii and in the world. Here are this year’s honorees.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 20, 2019
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Every December, I look back on the year and catalog things I learned while writing this feature. There is so much that it usually takes two columns. Here’s part two.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 13, 2019
Writing this column is a joy to me. I love learning about Hawaii history and the amazing people, places and organizations that make us so much more than a tiny speck in the vast Pacific Ocean.
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- By Bob Sigall, Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 6, 2019
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I wrote about the Manago Hotel in Captain Cook a while ago, and it reminded Ken Fujii of his first family road trip from Hilo to Kona back in 1944.
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