Bob Sigall

Hana is a special place, and some interesting people have been drawn to it. Beatle George Harrison, aviator Charles Lindbergh, entertainers Jim Nabors and Kris Kristofferson, and Sam Pryor, to name a few. Several readers shared stories about some of them.

I’ve been conversing with Barry Lundquist about Hardware Hawaii, founded by his father 70 years ago.

Dennis Ching asked me about teahouses. “I believe there may have been one located near Stream Drive in Nuuanu, mauka of Wyllie Street. Access may have been by Liliha Street or a road off Pali Highway, where Temple Emanu-El is now located.

This week I thought I'd share several stories that readers told me in the past few months. Newspapers often have stories about crime, political divisions or problems we are facing. Rearview Mirror tries to balance that out with more lighthearted topics.

Reader Melvin Masuda wrote to me recently. “Long ago, the ‘Dick Tracy' comic strip featured then-Honolulu Police Chief Dan Liu.

Every now and then I find myself with several short stories that are not large enough to take up a full column on their own. They don't share a common theme, so I just call them “da kine stories.”

If you ask people to point to someone who made a big difference in their lives, they will often mention a person who coached them as part of school athletics. I asked readers about the great coaches they have known. In this issue we'll look at three great basketball coaches who were, coincidentally, all born on the Big Island.

Let’s begin this column with a question: Which location on Oahu was once Punahou’s farm, a school for boys and a military academy? Kaimuki High School was there until its current campus was built in 1949.