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Rearview Mirror: Neighborhood vendors gave way to supermarkets

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                                Above, Walter Shigekane delivered milk for Dairymen’s in 1961.

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    Above, Walter Shigekane delivered milk for Dairymen’s in 1961.

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                                Above, in 1966, manapua man Choi Yong was one of many vendors who brought their goods to various neighborhoods in the 1930s through the 1960s.

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    Above, in 1966, manapua man Choi Yong was one of many vendors who brought their goods to various neighborhoods in the 1930s through the 1960s.

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                                On a warm day in 1964, Chie Betsuyako and Delfin and Linda Gleed enjoyed a treat from the neighborhood ice cream man, Doyle Kinder.

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    On a warm day in 1964, Chie Betsuyako and Delfin and Linda Gleed enjoyed a treat from the neighborhood ice cream man, Doyle Kinder.

Before the advent of modern supermarkets in Hawaii, vendors supplied many of neighborhood families’ needs. Read more

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