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Back in the Day: Photos from Hawaii’s Past

Dec. 15, 2019

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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / APRIL 9, 1964

Richard Buckminster Fuller stands in front of his invention, the geodesic dome, and explains the principle of tetrahedrons, the units that make up the structure. The dome served as an auditorium at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It was demolished in 1999 to make room for the Kalia Tower.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / FEBRUARY 4, 1951

Eki Cyclery added a pair of new neon signs and brand new bicycles to its King Street store, which has been in the same location for a number of years. (The store is now on Dillingham Boulevard.)
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / OCTOBER 14, 1981

Gay Bisch, front, and Neal Timon stand inside the entrance of an “artmobile,” where they’ve installed an exhibit of Filipino arts and crafts. The Department of Education first designated two windowless buses to take art to schools in 1969, after the Legislature appropriated funds for the program. In other years the buses have housed Portuguese, Puerto Rican and contemporary exhibits by island artists.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / JUNE 12, 1974

Most graffiti writers scrawl their messages and dash away. Someone on Maui was more careful. The person took the time to stencil “of love” beneath “tunnel” at the entrance to the tunnel on Honoapiilani Highway between Central Maui and Lahaina. Bonnie Endo studies the defacement.
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STARADVERTISER / DECEMBER 12, 1970

Hundreds of kids and adults enjoyed making and throwing snowballs in Waikiki as Honolulu Zoo concessionaire Walter Miura shot snow from a machine. Miura supplied the machine used to make snowmen on the zoo’s front lawn.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / SEPTEMBER 4, 1962

Brother Thomas B. Regan, principal of Damien Memorial High School at 1401 Houghtailing St., welcomes a group of first-year students at the opening of the new all-boy high school this morning. The 175 freshmen attending the first island school run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland are among the 16,000 Catholic students who reported for a half-day of classes today. Tomorrow some 153,000 public school pupils head back to school for a full day of classes.
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STAR-ADVERTISER ARCHIVE / AUGUST 1, 1968

The city removed the crosswalk on the Diamond Head side of King Street at Bishop Street to improve traffic flow; however most pedestrians just ignore the sign and trek on over.
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