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I’m saddened to share with you photos of a place that isn’t anymore.  The International Market Place in Honolulu has been torn down to make way for an upscale mega-mall.

Oahu is not my favorite Hawaiian island mostly because it’s dominated by Honolulu, a large busy tropical city similar to many others around the world.  But within this city there was a nice place, a island of shady banyan trees.  Here you could talk to pleasant people running small cart-shops, you could buy inexpensive gifts, or patronize hole-in-the-wall restaurants where you could have a nice meal, or a place to sit, rest, and cool down.

When we visited Honolulu last fall we found the site of the International Market Place boarded up, …

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