“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.