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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

View historic Hawaii photos “back in the day.”

By Star-Advertiser

Dec. 1, 2024

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STARADVERTISER / SEPTEMBER 30, 1965

Students at Kalihi-Uka Elementary School gave up eating lunch in their termite-ridden cafeteria several years ago. They now carry their lunch trays back to their classrooms, where termite droppings will not fall on their food. They return their trays to the kitchen, where students wash them. Fifth grader David Rosado scrapes the trays as they are returned. A new cafeteria-auditorium is in the works, but negotiations over whether it will include community facilities have held up the process.
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STARADVERTISER / SEPTEMBER 18, 1989

Joe Maize claimed the $300 first prize with his creation titled “Third City of Atlantis” in the Waikiki sand castle contest held as part of Aloha Week festivities.
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STARADVERTISER / FEB. 18, 1960

An unidentified youth from Wailuku’s St. Anthony School is about to experience a sensation not often enjoyed by islanders: getting smacked by a snowball. Several carloads of St. Anthony students traveled to Haleakala’s 10,000-foot summit, blanketed by its heaviest snowfall in years.
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STARADVERTISER / JULY 7, 1973

Two boys amble along in Waialua beside a field of lotus, one of the most exotic plants in the United States. The root, or hasu, is a delicacy in Asian cooking. Lotus requires a field of oozy mud and Waialua is one of the few places in the islands where conditions are right for growing the plant.
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STARADVERTISER / JUNE 23, 1962

Lt. Gov. James Kealoha gets a grip on his work as he presides over the opening of the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation’s agriculture fair at the McKinley High School grounds.
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STARADVERTISER / FEB. 12, 1970

It’s floor No. 10 in the construction of Hawaiian Telephone Co.’s $12 million, 17-floor headquarters and equipment building in downtown Honolulu. The lower 10 floors will be windowless and will house equipment. The top seven floors will contain general and executive offices. Bethlehem Steel Corp. supplied about 1,200 tons of steel for the building, which will contain 311,090 square feet of floor space.
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STARADVERTISER / NOVEMBER 25, 1966

Actor Eva Gabor, visiting Hawaii, enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner at the Pearl Harbor general mess, accompanied by Eric Fogerland, right, and Laura Prud’homme, left. Gabor also plans a visit to Tripler Army Hospital, as well as to other Oahu military bases.
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