Honolulu like you've never seen it!

[urbanguy]

We are gonna take a little journey around Honolulu and see some places that are rarely ever seen on these forums as well as streets that are dead (hehe very unusual for Honolulu) to a little light grit (Honolulu style). Anyhow, I hope you enjoy!

Maunakea Lei Stands

Kuan Yin Temple: 1880

Izumo Taishakyo Mission: 1906

St. Andrew's Cathedral: 1867

Washington Place: 1846

The Old Army and Navy YMCA & The Royal Hawaiian Hotel: 1928

Now known as the Hawai'i State Arts Museum

YWCA Building: 1927

'Iolani Barracks: 1871, moved and reconstructed 1960s

'Iolani Palace: 1882

Wo Fat Building: 1900

Armstrong Building: 1905

Nippu Jiji Building: 1897

Our Lady of Peace Cathedral: 1843

Model Progress Building: 1898

Hawaii Theatre: 1922

Royal Saloon now Murphy's Irish Pub: 1890

Honolulu Police Station: 1931

Yokohama Specie Bank: 1910

McCandless Building: 1906

Kamehameha V Post Office: 1871

Judd Building: 1898

Stangenwald Building: 1901

Alexander & Baldwin Building: 1929

Dillingham Transportation Building: 1929

Some rarely seen area's of the older part of the city

This is the old Hawaii Theatre it doesn

[urbanguy]

Hehe Where's the people? Well it

[DruidCity]

Excellent tour !

I enjoy seeing the wide variety of styles.

The Hawai'i State Arts Museum looks very inviting.

[urbanguy]

^Thanks theres definately a lot of different styles i'm not sure what to call some of them but its all good

[sunshine]

It looks like a mixed of Asian, European and American city. Nice.

[urbanguy]

^Thats pretty much what it is well the older stuff that survived anyhow.

[UK_D]

Nice pics

It reminds me very much of the smaller cities in France like Nice and Tolousse.

[urbanguy]

^wow id never imagine it to be similar to those cities but thats cool!

[monsoon]

[urbanguy]

^yeah weird huh now that youve mentioned it? Its kind of a run down area too but thanks to the Hispanics/Latinos who have moved into the area they've revived one of the old Chinese Theatres (an old architectual jewel) instead of knocking it down they turned part of it into a Spanish Language Church and another part of it into a Caribbean & Latin Market. Just up from there the Polynesians like Samoans, Tongans, etc and Micronesians like Marshallese, Chuukese, etc and other Hispanic/Latinos like Puerto Ricans & Mexicans to Filipinos have a lot of businesses and even a mix of things like there's this one Market called "Yamasin" that sells Polynesian, Micronesian, & Spanish foods to support the surrounding community not too mention countless other businesses. Even Israeli's opened up a market in the area to support the growing community there. Its still a fairly poor area well parts of it but its been a magnet for immigrants like forever from many poor countries as its still affordable and close to downtown.

[kota16]

Yes I found some of heritage buildings well worth a classification to be retained.Since Honolulu is derived from many cultures and civilisations,it is always good to see what was before.Some of the pictures are not unlike older areas in some Australian cities.Cheers.

[Brickell]

Nice pictures.

I've never pictured Honolulu as a real city. It's all beaches and hills right?

Now I know. I like the variety as well, and glad to see the older builings getting restored.

[urbanguy]

^Oh yeah man its a realy city and theres always something going on i love it here great people, great mix of cultures, food, history, and more its a very special place

[DruidCity]

That one photo does remind me a lot of Nashville...

Since I've never been, I'm curious to know how long it takes to fly from California to Honolulu ?

[urbanguy]

^It only takes about 5-5 1/2hrs to get to Hawaii from Cali.

[mthq]

great pics! I wish I can take those skyscrapers and rope them away to Anchorage.

btw where's this dudes peepee?

i just had to say that

[urbanguy]

^haha

Well crap you can have all the buildings in Waikiki so we can rebuild it there, if we could send it be totally support the move!

[Allan]

Thanks for the tour, UrbanGuy! I hope to visit Honolulu someday. It is such a unique and diverse place.

[urbanguy]

^Your welcome im glad you enjoyed it!