Showing posts with label Matson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matson. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Pālolo Hill

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“And they gathered their friends together and journeyed up into the hill country, and when they did not return others followed, saying un...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Alexander & Baldwin

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In 1843, Samuel Thomas Alexander and Henry Perrine Baldwin, sons of early missionaries to Hawaiʻi, met in Lāhainā, Maui. They grew up tog...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Falls Of Clyde

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She was launched December 12, 1878 by shipbuilders Russell & Co at Port Glasgow, Scotland; the four-masted, full-rigged ship Falls of...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

‘Bloody Monday’

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In 1935, as part of the New Deal initiatives, Congress passed the Wagner Act legalizing workers' rights to join and be represented by...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Kaluaokau, Waikīkī

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Kaluaokau, an ʻili in Waikīkī, has been interpreted with several possible meanings.  Henry Kekahuna, a Hawaiian ethnologist, pronounced K...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Matson Navigation Company

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Born in Sweden, Captain William Matson (1849–1917) arrived in San Francisco in 1867, at the age of 16.  There, he began sailing in San...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

At The End Of The Line

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Repeatedly evidenced in the early years of rail across the continent, railroads looked to expand their passenger business by operating...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Waikīkī

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The first Royal Hawaiian Hotel was not in Waikīkī.  It was in downtown Honolulu where the "One Capitol District" building now...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Waiʻalae Country Club

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In 1887, Daniel Paul Rice Isenberg (Paulo Liʻiliʻi) (son of the Paul Isenberg, one of the founders of H. Hackfeld & Co. (Amfac) and ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Seaside Hotel (Before the Royal Hawaiian)

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What we think of today as the “Royal Hawaiian Hotel” actually is the second hotel of like name (the first one was in downtown Honolulu –...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Moana Hotel

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Waikīkī was once a vast marshland whose boundaries encompassed more than 2,000-acres (as compared to its present 500-acres we call Waikī...