“BY ORDERS OF NEW OWNER, ALL CONTENTS ON ALL FOUR FLOORS OF THE HISTORIC, ICONIC HONOLULU ADVERTISER BUILDING MUST GO! PUBLIC AUCTION TO BE CONDUCTED ON SATURDAY, 7/24″
If you drive past the former newspaper building at 605 Kapiolani, you might have noticed the large banner across the front entrance announcing an “Everything to Go!” public auction to be held on Saturday (July 24).
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Auctioneer Joe Teipel’s web site has the details.
There’s an inventory of items to be auctioned, which also gives their locations in the building. I wonder how well they scrubbed the hard drives on all those computers? Are there any tales they could tell?
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Sad news about the Advertiser – do you know what has (will) happen to their photo archive? Is it privately owned or will it be donated – UH? State Archives? Bishop?
When I saw the ad in the Star-Advertiser on Sunday, he Cypress Hill song, “Ain’t going out like that” came to mind. Then I thought, no, the Honolulu Advertiser *is* going out like that. Sad…
Krauss had a real respect for history.
The Advertiser under Gannett did not.
You’d think they could have donated his old typewriter to the Bishop Museum or something.
Such a tacky ending to a tacky paper run by tacky people owed by a tacky company.
Yes it is sad. But what is more sad is the way Gannett and David Black/Dennis Francis chose to go about this. Business is business, we understand that. But to treat employees at both papers the way they have, and still are, is not right and proper.
I thought I read here that Jim Kelly already took all of that stuff…
this will never happen again with modern journalism
people will just pick up their yoga mats, put their Ipads in their backpacks, and head down to Starbucks for debriefing
Tacky is right. They should donate the historically significant items – somewhere.
They even spelled “typewriter” wrong in the ad.
What an absolutely poetic way for that paper to dump its last entrails.
The 1 man lift is how they gave people raises near the end. You read it here first.
I always read and enjoyed Bob Krauss. He had wit and heart.
I got first dibs on that former editor’s burger-flipping spatula!
It will be put to good use as the backbone of a voodoo doll.
Didn’t Krauss’ stuff wind up at the Marite Center?
Knowing the Evil Empire, I’m surprised they didn’t clean the place out of anythnig useful first.
When Gannett’s people shut down the Star-Bulletin assets, they took everything that wasn’t nailed down, including pictures off the wall and bolts of Star-Bulletin aloha-print fabric.
I believe the photo archive and the clip files were saved somehow.
So Burl it is bad when Gannett does it, but OK when OPI does it?
Crappy-end: they also spelled ‘Cabinet’ wrong (“lateral file cabintes”).
Black Press? More like Black Hole.
May be, but I ‘spect the ad copy was done by the auctioneer, “Surfer” Joe Teipel. That alone should be sufficient explanation for the spelling, etc. errors.
Is it bad when Gannett does it?
Yes, when their reason for doing it that way was to harrass and lean on the Star-Bulletin staff who kept working under those conditions. They had size-large security guards leaning over us in constant intimidation. That didn’t happen with OPI. But then, things are different. Gannett was trying to intimidate and annoy human beings, OPI has to get rid of a bunch of stuff — in a building that still belongs to Gannett.
I think Badvertiser means the Maritime Center. Krauss’s desk and cabinets and chair and stuff were all there on the second floor, at least they were when they closed it down. I don’t know about the typewriter.
I saw a typewriter in the Maritime Center at Krauss’s desk. even took a video of the exhibits before the close.
But Burl, what OPI is doing now might be different, but it is on the same low level that Gannett did 10 years ago. My point is that both companies are behaving very poorly! And If things were reversed and the Bulletin had been the one to close down I have no doubt that Gannett would be behaving in the same way today.
Gannett, for all its hard business tactics, probably would have paid severances by now.
I’m not at all sure the old Royal typewriter left in the building belonged to Bob Krauss. Other people DID have Royals, y’know. I feel like going down there and asking if they have provenance on the typewriter. Kinda doubt it.
Actually, Gannett is acting the same way today. The severence pay is hung up because it’s being litigated.
The only reason it’s being disputed is because OPI is trying to weasel out of it.
so bottom line for you all, should I renew my subscription? I kept a subscription to both papers until the end. Is this one worthy?
I would renew.
Despite the shortcomings which we’re certainly aware of, a daily newspaper is still better than no daily newspaper.
I’m looking forward to the folks at the Star-Advertiser eventually living up to their potential.
-Ian
ian, i’m looking forward to that as well. But right now? It’s like watching grass grow.
also, seems like the hon-tizer’s treatment of photos has passed off the the star-tizer. Shouldn’t their photo editor select photos? visuals still play an important role in news. seems like something all papers, even KaLeo included are not considering.