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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
1970: Kauai store’s
combination of
offerings is jolting
DULY noted on Kauai: the Kapaa Liquor & Electric Shop. That's nearly as good as the Alboro Guitar & Karate Studio, which in its yellow page listing (page 347) advertises, "Pick-Strum & Nerve Points." (June 25, 1970) ...ISN'T it coincidental that two of the city's finest chefs, Paul Gruter, of Michel's, and Martin Wyss, of the Kahala Hilton, went to school in the same tiny Swiss town and learned their culinary art elbow to elbow, so to speak? Chef Wyss recently returned from Bangkok where he and his wife, Jeanne, were shopping for a Thai national costume that travel gal Ruth Rittmeister wanted to wear to "A Night in Thailand" this week at the Kahala Hilton. They visited 10 stores before finding a traditional dress -- seems all the Bangkok gals are wearing nothing but hot pants these days. (June 28, 1971) ...
BISTRO co-owner Karl Diebold been spending a lot of time on Maui of late, overseeing the first few weeks operation of Le Tournedos, his new, 175-seat French steak house in the Napili Shores Hotel. One switch: All liquor is served in airline-style miniatures at your table. It's proving popular already: Lahaina restaurateur Jerry MacDonald dined there three nights in a row after the opening, and Paul Kirk, of Chez Paul, is happy he now has a nice place to go besides his own place. (June 28, 1973) ...
IT'S going to be a busy Sunday for Al Harrington. He'll be entertaining at halftime when a Hawaii team takes on the Will Rogers Polo Club of California at Mokuleia (a press release refers to Al as a "former Stanford graduate"???), and then Sunday night, he and his Polynesian show will be featured at Schofield's Conroy Bowl. (June 27, 1974) ...
A THIRD baby sea lion was born yesterday at Sea Life Park, and the facility's general manager, Greg Gillette, denies it was a publicity stunt to tie in with 45,000 visiting Lions. Incidentally, the lone male sea lion at Sea Life Park, Nalu, is probably the happiest sea lion in captivity. He has some 20 female sea lions at his disposal: Three have given birth, and several more appear to be pregnant. (June 22, 1976) ...
Leon Edel, whose title is Citizens Professor of English Emeritus at the UH, is back from New York where he launched his latest book, "Bloomsbury: A House of Lions." The book already has been reviewed in Newsweek, the New York Times and the L.A. Times, among others, and while in the Big Apple, the 72-year-old professor taped two shows with Dick Cavett which will be seen here (and around the country) in the near future. (June 28, 1979) ...
SOME people seem particularly well named: the per diem judge on Maui named James R. Judge, for example. And would he be accused of improper conduct if he wandered into the Jury Box? The Alakea Street bar by the same name, I mean. (June 22, 1984) ... And Windward Community College's summer session has a course called "Open class figure drawing," which consists of "drawing from nude figure models, male and female." Six three-hour sessions cost just $20, which beats the daylights out of Hotel Street. (June 26, 1984) ...
THE Kahala Hilton prides itself on being a special place for special people, and on the current VIP list is a typical mix: a famous designer, champion athlete and legendary beauty. They are, respectively, Louis Dell'Oliio, Boston Celtics center Robert Parish and actress Arlene Dahl, who arrives Sunday for that day only. (June 27, 1986) ...
FRIDAY is Wendy Walker's final day as office manager at Manoa Valley Theatre. One of the actors at the theater, Harry Williams, walked into the office and asked Walker to marry him, and she said yes. In grand theatrical style, the couple is planning a long engagement. The wedding date is a year away, and they will do some traveling before the official opening night. (June 28, 1989) ...
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Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com