Lunch comes with side order of isle showbiz memories

By Ben Wood

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 22, 2013

~~I was pleasantly surprised when I went to Murphy's for a tasty Irish burger shortly before St. Patrick's Day and was seated across the aisle from my longtime pals Al Harrington, Jimmy Borges and Cal Lui. They invited me to have lunch and join their conversation. Both Jimmy and Al were in the original "Hawaii-Five-0," Al as a regular and Jimmy as a guest 16 times. Cal, a Saint Louis '54 graduate, and James MacArthur, an original "Five-0" mainstay the guys loved, were in a small travel-industry biz together. James played Jack Lord's "Danno." Our Murphy's waitress was Jan Diehl, who worked at Trappers in the Waikiki Hyatt where Jimmy sang for a decade. Lynette Adams stopped by the table to say hello. Lynette works with Kimo Kahoano on his "Aloha Friday" show on AM940 from 6 to 8 Friday mornings. Jimmy and Al have been interviewed on the program.
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I was pleasantly surprised when I went to Murphy's for a tasty Irish burger shortly before St. Patrick's Day and was seated across the aisle from my longtime pals Al Harrington, Jimmy Borges and Cal Lui. They invited me to have lunch and join their conversation. Both Jimmy and Al were in the original "Hawaii-Five-0," Al as a regular and Jimmy as a guest 16 times. Cal, a Saint Louis '54 graduate, and James MacArthur, an original "Five-0" mainstay the guys loved, were in a small travel-industry biz together. James played Jack Lord's "Danno." Our Murphy's waitress was Jan Diehl, who worked at Trappers in the Waikiki Hyatt where Jimmy sang for a decade. Lynette Adams stopped by the table to say hello. Lynette works with Kimo Kahoano on his "Aloha Friday" show on AM940 from 6 to 8 Friday mornings. Jimmy and Al have been interviewed on the program.