Harris United Methodist Church <br />South Vineyard Blvd, Honolulu
The first image is from 1965. The other images are from 2021.<br /><br />The Harris United Methodist Church (originally the Harris Memorial Methodist Church) has been housed in a succession of buildings in downtown Honolulu since its beginning in 1887. <br /><br />In 1925, the church moved into a substantial structure at the corner of Vineyard Street and Fort Street. But in 1951 the City & County of Honolulu informed the church that this site would be condemned for the straightened and widened Vineyard Boulevard. The former Korean Methodist Church a half-block mauka on Fort Street was therefore purchased and renovated - but in October 1955, before Harris had even moved, this site was also scheduled for condemnation for the construction of what would become the bottom stretch of the Pali Highway. Harris only was able to occupy this new location for three years, from 1956 to 1959. The Honolulu Redevelopment Agency reserved the current site for Harris as this entire area was cleared for Urban Renewal, and the church was able to purchase it.<br />
<p>The Harris United Methodist Church looks substantially the same in 2021 as it had in the 1960s. Fundraising for this complex began in 1958 and its groundbreaking took place on December 25, 1960. By June 1962 the buildings were in use, and the official dedication was on August 5, 1962.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The entire site is 2 acres; the sanctuary holds 350 people and the social hall 300. There are 14 Sunday School / preschool classrooms and parking for 100 vehicles. The cost, including the land, was $750,000.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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Royal Hawaiian Hotel Entrance Gate
Kalakaua Avenue
From when the Royal Hawaiian Hotel had opened in 1927, a simple entrance for pedestrians from the Kalakaua Avenue sidewalk onto the hotel grounds had been marked with this metal trellis over a path through the boundary hedges. <br /><br />Second Image: The Royal Hawaiian Shopping Arcade was built in 1972 and incorporated the same access point to the hotel from Kalakaua Ave.
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The Lum Sai Ho Tong Building
River Street, Honolulu
The first image is from 1954-1956. The other images are from 2012.<br /><br />The Lum Sai Ho Tong is a Chinese society for people with the last names Lum, Lin, or Lam (all considered the same, since the same Chinese character was used for all.) Groundbreaking for the Lum Sai Ho Tong Building was December 27, 1952 and it was dedicated on December 19, 1953. It sits on a lot of 2,229 square feet and cost $60,000. It replaced a 53-year old wooden building that had been constructed after the previous one had been damaged in the January 1900 Chinatown fire. The first floor held two retail spaces as well as living quarters for society members who lacked families. The second floor was the "Shrine of Mother Lum" (Tin Hau Temple) and a reception hall and kitchen. The third floor had a meeting / social hall. The Tin Hau Temple used rituals from both Buddhism and Taoism, and when completed was included on walking tours for tourists hosted by the Hawaii Visitors Bureau.<br /><br /><span>The front view of the Lum Sai Ho Tong Building shows its various ornate traditional Chinese elements, many of which have been modernized to fit the 1950s trends. Thin textured horizontal bricks, popular in the USA at the time, frame the other decorations on either side.<br /><br />The building was allowed to remain standing while all the buildings around it were demolished around 1962 for the Queen Emma Redevelopment Project (Urban Renewal).<br /><br />The Lum Sai Ho Tong Building's Chinese elements are only on the facade; in every other way it is a contemporary American-style structure, as this side view shows.</span>
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Bachman Hall
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii Administration building's groundbreaking was on July 22, 1948 and it was completed around May 1949 at a cost of $379,600. It was renamed Bachman Hall on March 25, 1957 after the fifth president of the University of Hawaii, Dr. Paul S. Bachman. He had been the Dean of Faculties until he became the acting president in July or August 1955. He died unexpectedly at the age of 55 on January 9, 1957 after being in the position for only 16 months. In May 1968 during a 10-day sit-in political demonstration, protestors renamed it "Liberation Hall" on a quickly-made banner.<br /><br />The collaborating architects were Philip Clark Fisk, Allen Johnson, Vladimir Ossipoff, and Alfred E. Preis.<br /><br />The second image is a postcard of the building around 1955, before it was renamed Bachman Hall.
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Bachman Hall Details
University of Hawaii at Manoa
First Image: Postcard ca. 1950. The lobby of the University of Hawaii Administration Building / Bachman Hall has a large fresco mural designed by Jean Charlot, based on research he did on traditional Hawaiian culture at Bishop Museum. It was paid for by donations from the UH classes of 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952. In late 1949, small sections of fresh plaster daily were applied to the wall and Charlot and two student assistants painted in that portion of the overall picture.<br /><br /><span>Second Image: Courtyard of Bachman Hall at the University of Hawaii in 1959. The plantings have been changed a number of times over the years. <br /><br />Third Image: Brise soleil latticework on the left side of the Bachman Hall facade, 2018. <br /><br />Fourth Image: Open hallway on the makai side the facade of Bachman Hall, 2018.</span>
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Foster Tower Hotel
Waikiki
First Image: Rendering of the proposed building. Foster Tower began construction in August 1960, and it opened on October 19, 1962. At 25 stories it was the second-tallest building in Hawaii at the time, with the Ala Moana Building 25 feet taller although it had the same number of floors. Foster Tower contained 136 units, of which 25 were co-op apartments with the majority being hotel rooms. There were 6 units per floor, and each had a full kitchen. Its pool was on its elevated deck. A separate parking structure behind the tower had spaces for 137 vehicles. <br /><br /><span>Second image: Foster Tower seen from Waikiki Beach in May 1963. As the first tall highrise in Waikiki, surpassing the 10-story buildings already there since 1955, Foster Tower was criticized for its height and for blocking the view of Diamond Head from most of Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki. It originally had the words "Foster Tower Hotel" painted on its highest point, but they were painted over after complaints, even though they were legal in their size and placement.<br /><br />Third image: Foster Tower was so prominent in the view of Diamond Head and Waikiki that it appeared in the artwork for posters and other advertising for the 1963 Hollywood film "Diamond Head". It also was seen prominently in the background of one scene shot on the beach, although the plot of the story was supposed to be taking place in 1959 and the building had not been completed until 1962.<br /><br />Fourth image: Detail view of the wavy concrete canopy of the Foster Tower Hotel over the Kalakaua Avenue sidewalk. This wavy pattern also appeared at the 1958 Windward City Shopping Center in Kaneohe, Oahu. The holes in the canopy originally were for the trunks of coconut palms, now gone, which were already on the site when the building was constructed. Incorporating palms into sidewalk canopies was first done in 1950 for the Royal Block on Kalakaua Avenue at Lewers Street and was popular in the 1950s and '60s.<br /></span>
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Dole Pineapple Stand in 1965
Wahiawa
Dole Pineapple built a roadside stand outside Wahiawa in 1951. The first, simple building was replaced by this modern structure in February 1965. Designed by Leo S. Wou, the jagged outline was inspired by the ridges of the Koolau and Waianae mountain ranges visible from the site in central Oahu. The cedar shakes on the exterior referred to the rough skin of a pineapple. A second floor was a "lookout" over the surrounding pineapple fields; this had become a gift shop by 1971<br /><br />On the night of May 4, 1971, the Dole Pineapple Stand was completely destroyed by fire. A cryptic note left at the scene said it had been burned as an act of political protest, but this could not be confirmed. The stand was rebuilt substantially the same but not identical, with the replica opening on November 1, 1972.
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Waikiki Beach Center
Kalakaua Ave
<span>First image: The Waikiki Beach Center ca. 1969. The men's facilities were in the wing on the left and the women's on the right. The Waikiki Biltmore Hotel is visible in the background, across Kalakaua Avenue. The Center was demolished in 1974<br /><br />Second image: Detail of the roof of the Waikiki Beach Center, 1964. It was fabricated of terne metal, which is steel with a coating of tin and lead, which adds protection against corrosion. This was important directly next to the ocean.<br /><br />Third image: Detail of the roofline of the Waikiki Beach Center seen from Kalakaua Avenue, 1972. The dramatic angular roof was a notable feature of the Beach Center, which was demolished about May 1981. The site was left open and today is the location of the Duke Kahanamoku statue.<br /></span>
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McInerny's Waikiki Store
Kalakaua Avenue
McInerny was an important Hawaii clothing store. Its large Waikiki store's groundbreaking was on April 17, 1957 and its opening on November 18, 1957. This structure replaced a smaller 1950 shop in the next block with three times as much space. The building and its interior fittings cost $1 million, and it was called the "jewel" of the company. The copper roof received an acid wash to give it the desired weathered patina.<br /><br />Second Image: The first McInerny store was opened by 20 year old Michael McInerny in 1850, at the corner of Beretania and Smith Streets. He had come to Hawaii as a carpenter on a clipper ship and decided to stay.<br /><br />Third Image: Display window at the McInerny Waikiki store; Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961. The McInery Waikiki store had three sections. The facade of the right side had display windows in a zigzag layout; there were 19 show windows in all, and 5 entrances. A replica tiki about 15 feet tall, copied from one in the Bishop Museum, was placed outside the building.<br /><br />Fourth Image: Partly demolished McInerny store on Kalakaua Avenue, used as an on-site office during the construction of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in Waikiki, 1978. Waikiki grew so quickly that the McInerny store only lasted for 21 years. For the construction of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, the two ends of the McInerny building were demolished in 1978. Seen here, the center section was retained for the project's construction site office till it was removed in 1980. McInerny opened on June 3, 1980 as an anchor tenant of the new Royal Hawaiian Center. However, all the McInerny stores closed for good on January 31, 2003.<br /><br />
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Pagoda Hotel and Restaurant
Honolulu
The Pagoda Hotel and "Floating" Restaurant was developed by H. T. Hayashi of Hayashi Enterprises, which had already constructed three buildings in the area from 1960 onwards. The Pagoda complex opened on May 2, 1964 and consisted of a 12-story hotel of 203 units, the restaurant, and a parking building with 150 spaces on a 1 1/2 acre site. Most of the site was in the Bishop Tract, but a portion was in the Kapiolani Business District and was the first development to be completed in the latter since its dedication on July 9, 1963.<br /><br /><span>Second Image: The Pagoda Restaurant seen from Rycroft Street in 1965, the year after its opening. It looks substantially similar in 2021. It was one of a number of round buildings constructed in this period.</span><br /><br /><span>Third Image: Diners in the Pagoda Restaurant looked out on a Japanese-style garden with a small artificial hill with a waterfall that ran into the pond around the building. On the hill was a 13-tiered decorative hand-carved stone pagoda ornament which was the source of the name of the complex. Beyond the garden, visible in the distance was the Ala Moana Building topped by the La Ronde Rotating Restaurant.</span>
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