I’m pretty sure this photo dates from 1978. We were renting an apartment on the 4th floor of what was then called the Circle Jade, the round apartment building on 9th Avenue in Kaimuki, just makai of Waialae. On the ground floor, the old Kolohe Lounge.
We lived in that apartment through our graduate school days, and then as we transitioned into our first “real” jobs.
It was before computers, hence the stacks of papers, folders, books, clippings, journals, all of which kept mysteriously multiplying. You can tell that I was already pretty much a document hoarder. I didn’t know yet that it was great preparation for an investigative reporter.
I can’t read all the things that were taped onto the door. It was, as I recall, a good collection.
Here are some that I can make out.
Bumper Stickers
TH-3: Road to Ruin
Uppity Women Unite
Eat the rich!
Say Goodbye, Dick
Peace & Jobs, Stop the B-1 Bomber
Stop the Whale Killers, Boycott Japanese Goods
Don’t buy war toys
And other items. The cover of the Whitman College alumni magazine featuring a photo of Richard Nixon being given a Whitman shirt. A schofield Barracks visitors pass. A hand-printed poster, “Be a witness at the Hickam 3 Trial August 8.”
Luckily, the building went condo shortly after this and we had to move. We did thin the paper herd at that point, although stacks quickly grew to replace what we had jettisoned.
What you don’t see in this photo are the cats. We only had two. It seems like a very long time ago, in so many ways.
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I lived in that building for about a year, 10 years before you did. Sharing with some UH types. Enjoyed the bar on the ground floor and, even more so, great flame-broiled hamburger place across the street. Yes, a long time ago.
And the convenience of Zane’s Market on the corner.
Was the Hickam 3 trial the one which involved James Albertini? He taught at St. Ann’s School while I was a student there in the early 1970s.
Yes, that was the case. Those posters were produced in the late artist Ben Norris’ studio at his home in Makiki. Here’s a link to photos of the poster-making session. http://www.ilind.net/oldkine_images/hickam-posters/index.htm
Thanks Ian! LOVED seeing that link. Albertini had a great influence on my young life, both before the March 1972 act of dissidence, and afterward, as St. Ann’s students verbally parried support for his action, or not, for days and weeks on end.
I’d turned 12 that month, and things were already extremely complicated with my parents’ divorce happening at the same time, and their marriage dissolving like paper burning into ash for two years before that.
Something to talk about over tea one day. BTW, I miss seeing you in this big square building.
Not to sound like a commercial, but Northern Sun carries a bunch of political, socio, earthy, fem, etc bumper stickers. (Their mail-order catalogs are the best!) http://www.northernsun.com/bumper-stickers.html
One of my all-time faves: “Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society” 😀 http://www.northernsun.com/Ladies-Sewing-Circle-Sticker-%285240%29.html