We stopped by today to take a look at what is being offered for sale in Saturday’s auction of the remains of the Honolulu Advertiser.
Frankly, walking through the building that formerly housed both the Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin during the years of their joint operating agreement was sad.
What’s left–lots of used cubicles, chairs, file cabinets, miscellaneous office equipment, most of it dated, a few bits of memorabilia, and memories.
There were a few abandoned awards for past journalistic accomplishments on the counter downstairs just inside the front door. A bulletin board formerly claimed by the Newspaper Guild. Empty shelves and cabinets in what used to be the library and archive.
Items are going to be sold in relatively large lots, and a lot of post-sale bartering is expected, according to auctioneer Joe Teipel.
You can bid on a room full of stuff and just take what you want, then either try to sell what’s left or just walk away. In that case, whatever is left will be sold at a big discount to a buyer committed to any remainders, Teipel said.
In any case, click on this photo to follow our tour through
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I guess it would have required too much class for those fucking idiots who ran that place to allow the people who actually earned those awards to claim them and chuck them into the sea themselves, instead of leaving them behind with the goddamn cockroaches.
I can’t wait for the wrecking ball.
I just missed you guys:
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Thanks for the pix, Ian. I thought about going down but now no longer have to endure that.
Frankly, I would think that the S-A would want to keep SOMETHING from Advertiser history. If this were truly a merger, its executives would think of some way to honor the history of both papers.
Mr. Lind — normally I would prefer that you keep all of the seven dirty words out of your blog — but I can understand why you would make an exception in this case
Thank you. I agree on the language issue, and have been making minor edits to comments along the way. In this case, I made an exception.
Wish I was there – those awards would spice up the old resume. “Whaddya mean I didn’t win an award? I have the trophy right here!”
Leaves me with such sadness for what we’ve lost- not just in Honolulu, but around the nation. Auwe.
I’d love to see that building become a school. Hope all that beauty doesn’t fall to the wrecking ball.
For something like $15 million, the building is yours. But there is a ton of deferred maintenance. There is also a toxic cleanup problem out back where HNA buried gasoline and diesel tanks.
It’s also actually two properties. The one on Kapiolani is the classic News Building, and one on Kawaiahao is the pressroom and roll-storage building. That’s where “5-O” is filming.
You know, something like two decades ago the legislature passed a bill mandating a state history museum that stalled partially due to lack of a suitable location ….