Historic Hubba Hubba hosts Chinatown fete

For Friday, October 7, 2011

By Erika Engle

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 07, 2011

~~<p>The building that housed the storied Club Hubba Hubba in Chinatown has been renovated by its owners and will be the site of a pau hana fundraiser for the Chinatown Improvement District, a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit’s mission is to improve conditions in Chinatown while preserving the area’s cultural, ethnic and historical character.</p>
<p>The notorious club, which <a span="" style="color: #0000FF;" target="_blank" href="http://is.gd/HubbaWhatev">closed in 1997</a> and spent all these years boarded up, was once <a span="" style="color: #0000FF;" target="_blank" href="http://is.gd/Hubba2000">referred to by a Star-Bulletin columnist</a> as a “lusty old lady of lurid nightlife,” which indeed it was, famed as a strip club dating back to the World War II era.</p>
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The building that housed the storied Club Hubba Hubba in Chinatown has been renovated by its owners and will be the site of a pau hana fundraiser for the Chinatown Improvement District, a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit’s mission is to improve conditions in Chinatown while preserving the area’s cultural, ethnic and historical character.

The notorious club, which closed in 1997 and spent all these years boarded up, was once referred to by a Star-Bulletin columnist as a “lusty old lady of lurid nightlife,” which indeed it was, famed as a strip club dating back to the World War II era. Login for more...