In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it’s deja vu all over again!!

While I was spinning my wheels yesterday afternoon, several readers were doing their due diligence and solving the puzzle.

A reader commenting as “Joel” was the first to point out late Sunday afternoon that I went through this same exercise in a “Throwback Thursday” post almost exactly 10 years ago!

“Hi Ian, I think the consensus the last time this was discussed is that it’s the contessa taken from hale manoa,” he wrote in a comment.

Honestly, I had no recollection that this was the second time around on this littel mystery, but it’s true!

And back in 2016, several people quickly recognized the location.

The photo is taken from Hale Manoa at the East West Center. For a period in 1970, I was the primary photographer for the East West Center, paid as a student worker. It was a lot of fun and gave me my own darkroom to work and play in. I must have spent some time in the Hale Manoa living quarters and took this photo of the view looking down toward Waikiki.

The street is East West Road, heading towards Dole Street, where the low rise building shown is Johnson Hall B, a student dorm.

The building under construction across the street, at the corner of East West Road and Dole Street, is the UH enginerring building, Holems Hall.

And at the very bottom of the photo, in the center, is the back of the sign welcoming welcoming visitors to the East West Center.

And this Google Map shows the approximate line of sight from Hale Manoa to the Contessa down on King Street, where construction appears to have been nearing completion.