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"Only two things from the original International Market Place will remain: the name and a few trees, including—thankfully—the venerable old Indian banyan tree."
Spoke to someone recently who gushed about the marketplace being one of her favorite things about her trip over there. Sad but Waikiki needs some rejuvenation.
I don't get why people want to freeze things in time. What was Hawaiian about the IMP? It is more appropriate to mourn the loss of Queen Emma's home that was torn down to build the IMP in the first place.
The IMP was nice in its day and fun, but the tiki theme faded, the merchants didn't carry Hawaiian products, they were cheap trinkets from China, Indonesia and Malaysia and the merchants weren't Hawaiian, they were Asian immigrants. So what was Hawaiian about the IMP?
If Honolulu were frozen in time half the people in these forums wouldn't have even had the opportunity to visit Hawaii, let alone live there.
[quote=JBtwinz;32731441]I first visited in 65 with my parents......over the years I have witnessed so many changes and the old Honolulu disappeared in front of my eyes. On my most recent trip the high end stores really blew me away and the quaintness of walking along downtown with all the local flavor has vanished.
You can't live in the past................but it is sad how the need for high end commercialism and the changing appetite of today's tourists has lead to as they say "paved over paradise"
Sad changes over the years. I remember the Int'l. Marketplace from the 1960s when vacationing every with my family. My mother and I would watch the early evening Hawaiian hula show in the Market, eat at the cafeteria where the pigeons would beg for food, browse through the shops when Hawaiian born locals were the vendors and didn't harass you to buy. Never got around to having dinner in the banyan tree house but sure have some nice memories of the Market Place. I miss the Queen's Surf Luau, too, from the 60s.
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