Comments on: Remembering Ala Moana Center http://www.hawaiitraditions.com/2010/02/18/remembering-ala-moana-center/ Traditions, Values, and Culture...Hawaii Style Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hazelnut Cottage http://www.hawaiitraditions.com/2010/02/18/remembering-ala-moana-center/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Hazelnut Cottage Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:10:27 +0000 http://www.hawaiitraditions.com/?p=570#comment-333 hello kaimanapine!<br>what a memory! i totally remember the grandpa who used to hand out cardboard squares over by Sears :)! haha! do you remember the big bird cage by Shirokiya, and how Liberty House once turned the bottom floor space between the escalators into a mini ice skating rink? my, how time flies!<br><br>jan hello kaimanapine!
what a memory! i totally remember the grandpa who used to hand out cardboard squares over by Sears :) ! haha! do you remember the big bird cage by Shirokiya, and how Liberty House once turned the bottom floor space between the escalators into a mini ice skating rink? my, how time flies!

jan

]]> By: kaimanapine http://www.hawaiitraditions.com/2010/02/18/remembering-ala-moana-center/comment-page-1/#comment-302 kaimanapine Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:40:54 +0000 http://www.hawaiitraditions.com/?p=570#comment-302 Very cool article, I visited Ala Moana's celebratory pop-up gallery in August of 2009 in conjunction with the UH Manoa historic Costume Collection. It really was a treat to see Hawaii's unique fashion spanning the 50 years of Ala Moana, even a Palaka print shirt from Arakawas store Waipahu. Today there are 11 original mall retailers from 1959 which are still at Ala Moana today. They include: Sears, Shirokiya, Crack Seed Center, Dairy Queen, Foodland, Longs Drugs, Reyn's, Territorial Savings Bank, The Slipper House, US Post Office and Watamull's-- minimum wage was $1 per hour (1959). Being young (29) I do remember the sandbox with sculpture, the old man upstairs by longs that used to give you cardboard to sit on the rock wall with, Foodland was where Makai Market is today and you could see into Foodland from McDonald's upstairs seating, grandma used to take me their for breakfast and buy me a toy from Woolworth's! haha! I do wish management would set aside space to showcase it's history and the people and businesses which built our economy, so that we see value in supporting local businesses. Ala Moana is definitely a local tradition in my book. Mahalo! Very cool article, I visited Ala Moana's celebratory pop-up gallery in August of 2009 in conjunction with the UH Manoa historic Costume Collection. It really was a treat to see Hawaii's unique fashion spanning the 50 years of Ala Moana, even a Palaka print shirt from Arakawas store Waipahu. Today there are 11 original mall retailers from 1959 which are still at Ala Moana today. They include: Sears, Shirokiya, Crack Seed Center, Dairy Queen, Foodland, Longs Drugs, Reyn's, Territorial Savings Bank, The Slipper House, US Post Office and Watamull's– minimum wage was $1 per hour (1959). Being young (29) I do remember the sandbox with sculpture, the old man upstairs by longs that used to give you cardboard to sit on the rock wall with, Foodland was where Makai Market is today and you could see into Foodland from McDonald's upstairs seating, grandma used to take me their for breakfast and buy me a toy from Woolworth's! haha! I do wish management would set aside space to showcase it's history and the people and businesses which built our economy, so that we see value in supporting local businesses. Ala Moana is definitely a local tradition in my book. Mahalo!

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