In her day, the Falls of Clyde was a four-masted, fully-rigged workhorse. She was built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, so she’s almost 140 years old. That alone makes her special, but what makes the Falls of Clyde unique are the several iron tanks that fill her hold. She is, in fact, the last…
Back in the early 1960s when I first arrived in Hawaii, Honolulu International Airport (it was John Rogers Field back then) had six—Count ‘em: six!—parking spots for the huge, new Boeing 707 jets that had started coming here. They were bringing a lot more tourists and also a lot of people like me who…
Honolulu’s transit system is in the news again and it’s not good news. The powers-that-be have once again revised the cost estimate—upward, of course—and no one has any clear idea of where the extra billion or so will come from. Mayor Kirk Caldwell has just announced that because of cost overruns, the initial phase…
Most Americans have become accustomed to the visual blight that is outdoor advertising, and that’s really a pity. When many of us who live in Hawaii travel to the mainland U.S., we’re jolted by all the billboards from the moment we step off the plane. That’s because they’re illegal here, and have been for some…