[Political Junkie Too]

That seems to mean the photos ARE from 1961, not the early seventies.

The boy in the picture can't be Barack. He wasn't that old before they rebuilt the airport.

I guess the question is did they build a new terminal and keep the old terminal active as well? Could Pan Am have moved to the new terminal, and other airlines (Philippines?) have moved in to the "old" terminal? Or did they tear it down?

I guess I'm asking if it's jumping to conclusions to assume that the old terminal wasn't still in use after the new one was dedicated in 1962?

-PJ

[Spunky]

See my link at posting #2518. It said construction continued into the 70’s.

[bvw]

I don't know the answers to any of those questions. It would be wonderful if people could turn up more pictures of that 1958-1973 era at Honolulu Airport terminal. Or of wide-band wristwatches or men's ties and woman's dresses like Stanley wears.

Clothes and accessories can date photos to a half-decade or so. Sometimes not always ... for example I saw in the background a classic Hawaiian shirt in one of those Obama family terminal photos -- the pattern looked exactly like one I bought in the hotel gift-shop in 1982.

[muawiyah]

Pan Am collapsed December 4, 1991.

[El Gato]

I guess I'm asking if it's jumping to conclusions to assume that the old terminal wasn't still in use after the new one was dedicated in 1962?

No it's not, the same site, different page, says:

The old Honolulu International Airport on the South Ramp was bulging at the seams in the 1960s, and construction of new Overseas and Interisland Terminals on the North Ramp was well underway. A dedication ceremony for the new facility was held on August 23, 1962 and all operations switched to the new terminal on October 14, 1962. The new Interisland Terminal was dedicated in April 1964.