Fort Street Mall: Transportation
Part III of this exhibition
highlights transportation modes, from past to present, and how they are being envisioned for the future. A group of distinguished speakers will reminisce and share hopes for the future.This event opens with a visual narration by city-walker, Jack Gillmar, on how he remembers walking through Fort Street Mall as a little kid with his parents.
Jack will be joined by John Hara, FAIA, to talk story on the changes that they have seen in the area through the years. Bill Chapman, Dean of the School of Architecture, will share his perspective on the current state of Fort Street Mall and identify historical buildings that are worth preserving. Professor Karl Kim, UH Mānoa Urban and Regional Planning Department, will speak on how sea level rise will impact Fort Street Mall in the years ahead.
Jack will be joined by John Hara, FAIA, to talk story on the changes that they have seen in the area through the years. Bill Chapman, Dean of the School of Architecture, will share his perspective on the current state of Fort Street Mall and identify historical buildings that are worth preserving. Professor Karl Kim, UH Mānoa Urban and Regional Planning Department, will speak on how sea level rise will impact Fort Street Mall in the years ahead.
PANELISTS
Jaack Gillmar grew up in Waikiki when shopping on Fort Street was where it was at! He has an accurate visual memory of Fort Street and the surrounding city from 1948. Shopping was at Kress and Liberty House on Fort and at Yat Loy’s around the corner on King. The dentist was on Bethel, the doctors in the Alexander Young Hotel building. The military was “occupying” Hotel Street with its bars, brothels and arcades.
Jack’s talk story ︎︎︎
John Hara’s practice is devoted to the planning and design of sites and buildings which continue to re-define the contemporary language of Hawaiian architectural traditions. Throughout his career, he has completed numerous complex public, academic, and cultural facility buildings for significant clients such as the Honolulu Museum of Art, Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului, University of Hawai‘i, Punahou School, Mid‑Pacific Institute, and the Kamehameha Schools.
Karl Kim, PhD is Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii, where he is also the founding Director of the Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (DMHA)
program.
William Chapman is Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Educated at Columbia (M.S. in Historic Preservation, 1978) and at Oxford University in England (D.Phil. in Anthropology, 1982), he specializes in architectural recording, the history of historic preservation, and materials conservation.
DeSoto Brown is the Bishop Museum Historian and Curator for the Archives, where he has been employed for over 35 years. He shows and interprets materials from the Archives collection in lectures, interviews, and online presentations for both education and entertainment.
DeSoto’s talk story ︎︎︎
EXHIBITION
RECEPTION PHOTOS
by: Aaron Yoshino
