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Soon after one of Maui's Japanese Buddhist temples, the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, burned in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, its resident minister was desperate to go back and ...
COURTESY PHOTO Royal Lahaina Resort & Bungalows employees, above, pose for a “Love Maui ” campaign run by Highgate Hawaii to support relief efforts for Maui residents and the community. 1 /2 ...
Aug. 27—LAHAINA — Known outside Maui largely as a tourist attraction, visitor brochures obscure the fact that Lahaina for the most part is a working-class community with a sizeable immigrant ...
In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui.The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations and caused widespread damage, killing at least 102 people and leaving two people missing in the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast.
The film took place in 1941, so the reference to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel was in the context of 1941, not 1953, when the film was made. The hotel was used in the 1962 movie Gidget Goes Hawaiian. The hotel was used in the 1978 film Goin' Coconuts; The hotel appeared in the 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love. The hotel appeared in the 2014 film Big Eyes
That same year, the first whaling ships arrived, beginning the community's rise in economic importance. Lahaina eclipsed Oahu as a preferred whaling port between 1840 and 1855, because of its better deep-water anchorage. When Kamehameha III ascended to the Hawaiian throne in 1825, he made Lahaina his capital, preferring it to the busier ...
More than a month after devastating fires burned most of the historic town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian Island of Maui, some residents were able to go visit their properties Monday. Residents who ...
It was the oldest hotel in Lahaina and on the island of Maui and the oldest in continuous operation in the state of Hawaii. It was a contributing building in the Lahaina Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, [3] and since 2016 was one of the Historic Hotels of America. [4] It joined Best Western in 1997.