Local Organizations and Businesses Celebrate 100 Years of Service
CADES SCHUTTE With a century of dedicated excellence, Cades Schutte has helped businesses and families find prosperity in Hawai‘i. Attorneys Arthur G. Smith and Urban E. Wild founded this firm in 1922 as Smith & Wild. From that beginning, the history of Cades Schutte can be traced through the milestones [...]
Historic Pu‘unēnē School on Maui Commemorates its 100th Year
The Puʻunēnē School is a historic school building in the community of Puʻunēnē in the central part of Maui, Hawaii near Kahului. Puʻu nēnē means “nēnē goose hill” in Hawaiian. Puʻunēne's primary industry was growing, harvesting and processing sugarcane for over a century. Puʻunēnē School was built in 1922 by the [...]
Celebrating 100 years of Service at Wai‘oli Tea Room
Opened in 1922, the Wai‘oli Tea Room was conceived as a vocational training facility for the orphans housed at the Salvation Army Girls Home that was also located on the Manoa Campus. At its peak, hundreds of guests from around the world enjoyed breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea which were [...]
Hilo’s Pacific Building Turns 100
The Pacific Building located in downtown Hilo is a prominent two-story concrete reinforced structure which carries a physical historic presence and landscape within the core of downtown Hilo and was built during the territory of Hawai‘i. It is the home of Bears Coffee, one of the first businesses that developed [...]
Bank of Hawai‘i Commemorates 125 years of Community Banking
May, 1910: New head office completed in new location of Makai-Diamond Head corner of Fort and Merchant Streets. Photo: Hawai‘i State Archives HPP-7-7-004-00001. In 1893, Charles Montague Cooke (1849–1909) with his brother-in-law Joseph Ballard Atherton and business partner Peter Cushman Jones founded Bank of Hawai’i. In 1897, [...]
Celebrating 100 years of film and performance at Hawai‘i Theatre
The iconic Hawai‘i Theatre, featuring an elegant neo-classical theme with stately Corinthian columns, a domed ceiling and Lionel Walden’s mural, Glorification of the Drama, on the proscenium arch, first opened its doors on Wednesday, September 6, 1922. Over the decades, the theater has played a significant role in Honolulu’s [...]