Here’s a question I couldn’t answer.
A regular visitor to the Princess Kaiulani Hotel asked what the building next door used to be. He’s referring to this one on the corner of Kalakaua, now home to various small shops.
He recalls that it was previously a cafeteria-type restaurant of some kind.
Can anyone help him out with any specifics?
Here’s another photo looking for a story.
I walked over the Ala Moana Center a few days ago and noticed a series of these huge, steel supports that appear to be shoring up much of the Macy’s end of the center. Have there been structural issues publicly reported in the past? Some of these braces appear to be relatively new. What’s the story here?
Could this be the quote of the week:
“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watching naked people on stage doing pleasurable things will never hurt you.” [Psychology professor J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University in reply to questions about an after-class live demonstration of sex toys.]
The professor reported that student evaluations were uniformly positive.
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I believe the restaurant on the corner was called The Minute Chef restaurant. It belonged to the PK Hotel and also serviced the pool area behind it.
waynevid
On the reader’s question about the building next to the PK, he is correct. it was a cafeteria style restaurant years ago. At the back of the building was a barbershop where I used to get my hair cut. My late father was VP of Sheraton at that time and Dick Holtzman, who he hired from the Greenbrier Hotel in W. Virginia, was CEO of Sheraton Hawaii. No that’s probably more than you ever wanted to know…
“…an after-class live demonstration of sex toys.
The professor reported that student evaluations were uniformly positive.”
Of course. Can you imagine anyone claiming: “ah, I didn’t like that last orgasm”.
Corrosion, including re-bar is always an issue in Hawaii. Ala Moana has had several renovations to repair or replace supports & beams. I remember in the 1980’s steel caissons being put around vertical structural supports at Ala Moana & the filled with concrete to form jackets to keep the vertical supports from spalling expansion. UH has done a study on Ala Moana beam strength and failure the link is below.
http://www.cee.hawaii.edu/reports/UHM-CEE-04-08.pdf
“About 100 students attended the after-class, optional seminar on fetishes.”
No one was forced to be there.