What Waikiki, Honolulu looked like in the 1970s

#1 Random snap looking mauka along Seaside Avenue from the Kalakaua Avenue intersection, 1971

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#2 Driver’s eye view looking Diamond Head from Royal Hawaiian Avenue along Waikiki’s main drag Kalakua Avenue, 1974

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#3 Street view of the busy intersection at Kalakaua and Kapahulu Avenues, 1971

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#4 Waikiki’s Ala Wai Blvd between Kanekapolei and Wailana looking more or less west, 1974.

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#5 Hotel along the water in the popular Waikiki Beach area, 1973

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#6 13 year-old Adam Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, enjoying the surf at Waikiki, 1970

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#7 Traditional Hawaiian dancers on the terrace of the ‘Royal Hawaiian Hotel’ in Waikiki, 1970

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#8 Hawaiian teenagers dancing at a free rock concert in Honolulu’s Kapiolani Park, 1970

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#9 Late afternoon looking more or less west along Waikiki’s Kalakaua Avenue shortly after its 1971 conversion to one-way Diamond Head with no more on-street parking.

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#10 Sharp aerial view from a blacony on the sixth floor at the Ilikai Hotel looking mauka (inland) along Waikiki’s stretch of Ala Moana Blvd., 1970

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#11 Wall-to-wall people pack the beach at Waikiki every day sun shines, 1970s

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#12 Waikiki Beach visitors enjoy the outrigger canoe, October 1973

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#13 “Thunderbirds” Aerobatic Team in Formation, Waikiki, 1970s

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#14 East along Waikiki’s Kalakaua Avenue shortly after its conversion to one way Diamond Head with no more on-street parking, 1971

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#15 Aloha Week parade photo showing where the old Lum’s Hot Dogs was located on Kalakaua Avenue – mauka (inland) side just Ewa (west) of Lewers Street, 1974.

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#16 Looking Diamond Head (east) along Waikiki’s Kuhio Avenue between Kaiulani Avenue (left) and Duke’s Lane (out of frame at right), 1973

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#17 Street level view of the high-rise towers and the parking structure required to handle the increasing number of guests at Waikiki’s Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, 1971

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#18 Detailed birdseye view, probably taken from the Waikiki Terrace Hotel, looking west towards the intersection of Kalakaua and Kuhio Avenues, 1971

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#19 Looking mauka (inland) from Fort DeRussy at the new construction rapidly changing the Honolulu skyline, 1970s

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#20 Kate Jackson, guest and Cheryl Ladd in Waikiki, 1970s

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#21 Filming “Charlie’s Angels” Episode “Angels in Paradise” in Waikiki, 1970s

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#22 Filming “Charlie’s Angels” Episode “Angels in Paradise” in Waikiki, 1970s

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#23 Filming “Charlie’s Angels” Episode “Angels in Paradise” in Waikiki, 1970s

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#24 Filming “Charlie’s Angels” Episode “Angels in Paradise” in Waikiki, 1970s

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#25 Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd and Kate Jackson in Waikiki, 1970s

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#26 Hawaiian dancers Carmella Barut and Marlene Kalahiki give an impromtu hula dance outside the Hyatt Kingsgate Hotel Kings, 1976

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#27 View of traffic down Kalakaua Avenue, the main street of the Waikiki Beach area, 1973

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#28 Outrigger canoes and surfers at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, 1973

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#29 Waikiki Beach at Honolulu is open to all of the public, 1970s

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#30 Sun on Waikiki, 1970s

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#31 U.S. generals and politicians of Berlin stand in front of a model of the Waikiki beach on the American holiday island Hawaii, 1972

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#32 Waikiki area, October 1973

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#33 Outrigger canoes and surfers at Waikiki Beach, October 1973

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#34 Sunbathers on Waikiki Beach, 1971

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#35 The Sheraton Moana Hotel in Waikiki Beach, 1970

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#36 Waikiki Beach, with sunbathers, 1970

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#37 A packed beach with people sunbathing and enjoying the sea, 1970

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#38 Opened 1977 by developer William K. H. Mau (c1913-2011) on the site of the old Tropics (later Royal Lanai) restaurant at the mauka-ewa corner of Kalakaua Avenue at Seaside, 1971.

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This already large building was expanded to take over this entire block of Kalakaua between Royal Hawaiian, Lauula, and Seaside Avenues 2009.

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#39 Waikiki, 1970s

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#40 N.Z. Turf Jackpot Winner Visits Stables.Mr. Peter Moran, N.Z. Turf Jackpot winner, in Waikiki, 1970s

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#41 Waikiki, 1974

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#42 Waikiki beach, 1970s

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