Ahead of the July candidate filing deadline, Dan Boylan reflects on the pivotal U.S. Senate race between Democrat Dan Akaka and Republican Pat Saiki, following the death of Spark Matsunaga.
And new stamps went on sale at the post office in Honolulu that same day.
Lacking English, he manages a graphic appeal in sign language. “The food is good. The bed is warm. The shelter is nearer home.”
The shack now only exists in photographs.
Before Clinton, Gabbard, Klobuchar and Warren, there was Mink.
A cherry red convertible sets the tone for 1995’s “Spring Into Color” fashion section.
Finding affordable accommodations in the Islands for teachers and out-of-state students isn’t a new problem, it seems.
“One of Hawai‘i’s most colorful events.”
In 1930 the four-story building was one of the tallest on the street.
He turned down a job with the NFL’s San Diego Chargers to head up a UH team.
For years, about 50,000 TV fans waited every week to hear Ken Alford say, “Howdy Buckaroos.”
Before it housed the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, the island off the Windward Side was slated to be a playground for the nation’s researchers and wealthy.
Since the Polynesian Cultural Center opened in 1963, some 38 million people have visited. But early on, many considered the concept outlandish, as HONOLULU Magazine reminded them a few years later.
A look back at Honolulu from 1948 to 2003. Stories taken from the archives of the Paradise of the Pacific and HONOLULU Magazine.
When the original “Magnum, P.I.,” went off the air in 1988, it was one of TV’s highest-rated shows. Twenty years later the reboot debuted. Its new season premiered Friday, Sept. 27.
One day in May, Hawai‘i drivers started going through the Ko‘olau mountain range to Kailua, instead of over it.
Here we see how the other half lived on vacation—sometimes breaking the law in style—and even, in one instance, dying.
A modern state building was in the works. But a quiet coral-block barracks stood in its way.
On July 24, 1969, the command module Columbia landed in waters 812 miles southwest of Hawai‘i.
With only a few “benders” on the island, classic neon signs faced a dim future in 2010.
The advent of Honolulu’s new, technologically advanced fleet of Twin Coach buses signaled a new era in the city’s rapid transit system.
In the late 1970s, Hawai‘i’s housing prices hit an all-time high. Fast forward four decades, and we’re still singing the same tune.
In the 1950s Hawai‘i’s hotel industry was booming but the state needed more cooks in the kitchens.
This uniquely Hawai‘i adaptation of America’s rising pastime was played without pads and substituted slick ballhandling, shifty moves and multitalented stars in rolled-up dungarees.
