A look in Maraniss's book reveals that the Pratts were actually the primary tenants at 6085 Kalanianaole and were sharing it with the Dunhams. It seems that the Pratts and the Dunhams were both recent arrivals in Hawaii. Bob Pratt had been in the furniture business with his uncle in Spokane. During the same time, Stanley Dunham had begun working at a furniture store in Seattle.
After a falling out with his uncle in 1958, Pratt moved to Hawaii, which he had visited while in the service, and opened a new furniture business. In the summer of 1960, Pratt hired Dunham, whom he knew by reputation and who had just arrived in Hawaii from Washington state. I'd pictured the furniture store as older and more established, not as the relative shoe-string operation it was, requiring the owner to share housing with his manager.
Maraniss describes the house as a yellow four-bedroom T-shaped ranch with a 450-square-foot storage cottage out back. Supposedly, Stanley Ann had a makeshift room outside her parents' bedroom.
It's likely the most important event in little Barry's life took place in BHO's apartment at 1482 Alencastre Street, overlooking the campus.
After Stanley Ann returned to Hawaii from her stint at the U of Washington and resumed her studies at the U of Hawaii, she would occasionally drop little Barry off at the furniture store, where Cindy Pratt, the teen-aged daughter of Bob Pratt, would look after him. She remembers him as a cute kid who liked to jump on the beds.
Cindy Pratt also remembers little Barry's birth as a "scandal and a half". The level of opprobrium was enough that Grampa Stan would imply to strangers that Barry was native Hawaiian. This in Hawaii, where there more interracial marriages than in any other state, and BHO, the exotic foreign student, was popular on campus.