Hunting for
The Hunter

The Hunter, a Kailua landmark second-hand store founded by Dorothy Garliepp in 1987, has moved -- but not far.

Garliepp sold the shop to Gina Kawananakoa at the end of 2002 and last month, Kawananakoa liquidated her portion of the business. Two of her consignors, father and son Terry and Shane Ferreira, took it over and took it across the street.

Shop manager Cheryl Moriguchi, first hired by Garliepp, was retained by Kawananakoa and is running the new shop as well.

"We still have the same low-priced country and Hawaiiana (items), all different collectibles, costume jewelry for $1 apiece. The high school girls come in and find earrings for a dollar and girls buy knickknack stuff for their parents," Moriguchi said.

Kawananakoa opted not to move to the much smaller space and liquidated her holdings, knowing her lease was going to run out on the building.

Terry Ferreira didn't want to see the landmark store go away. A longtime customer, "he wanted to keep it going," said Shane, a 2003 Kalaheo High School graduate.

It is Shane's first experience in a retail business that provided its founder with many happy memories.

"I had a great time and met many wonderful Kailua people," Garliepp said.

Her intention was to run the shop as a jewelry store, but after buying retail showcases from the Gold Bond Stamp Co. liquidation sale, "we started filling them up with everything."

She never considered herself a competitor to Heritage Antiques across the street.

"Oh no, not at all. I was more of a junk person. It didn't have to be a great old antique, it just had to be nice."

Shoppers poking around for treasure at either shop no longer have to cross the street as Heritage and Hunter are doors apart in the Davis Building at 767 Kailua Road.

Kaneohe Ranch Co. will tear down the now-vacant, dilapidated building that housed The Hunter at 764 Kailua Road.

"We have folks that we are going to build a new building for," said Kimo Steinwascher, vice president for development and leasing. He declined to identify the new business.

New business arrival

The retailer of maternity and infant apparel and accouterments is moving from University Square into the former Kamehameha Garment Co. space at Ward Centre.

Sharkey was ready to take the next step into a seven-days-a-week mall setting, but she was unsure if she was ready to jump into to a five-year lease without some sort of transition period.

"We're really excited about this next step in our evolution," she said.

The store will open Wednesday and operate from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays for a holiday-season run.

"On Jan. 16 for all I know, the store will be in my house in Kaimuki," she laughed.