I am reposting this to include the entire comment. The other thing I noticed from the secong paragraph is that BIGLOOK made a comment about the customs and baggage claim being on the concourse BELOW. Didn’t someone upthread say that the old one was single story and the new one is two stories?
Friday, July 04, 2008 6:28:52 PM · 1,019 of 2,686
BIGLOOK to davandbar; Spunky
My eyesight is normal but my memory is excellent......I’ve only walked past the Overseas terminal at HNL dozens of times.
The question is ‘are they leaving Hawaii or is she there to pick him up?’
Both look to fresh to have just gotten off a long flight from overseas. Besides the area is the ticketing counters and check in, not Customs and Baggage Claims which is on the concourse below. I suspect one or both were leaving.
KEEP IN MIND, THIS COMMENT WAS MADE WELL BEFORE THERE WAS A DATE ISSUE. WE WERE STILL TRYING TO CONFIRM WHICH AIRPORT THIS WAS - SFO OR HNL. AND, WE ONLY HAD THE “WEDDING” PHOTO, NOT THE OBAMA I AND II PHOTO.
SO, I’M SURE IT’S FROM THE NEW TERMINAL.
I made that comment as a supposition based on the layouts of today's airports. Today, because of elevated jetways directly to planes from concourses, departures are on the second level and arrivals are routed down to the street level for baggage claim.
Back then, when you had to walk out to the tarmac to use external stairs to board a plane, departures were on the ground level, and baggage claim may have been in another building entirely. I've even been in old regional airports where baggage claim was a rack in the corner of the tarmac where baggage handlers would just put bags on a multi-shelf rack for customers to pick up.
I was browsing through the other photos at this site, even looking at photos from the 1950's and 1970's for clues to the inside of the ticket lobbies. There are a few dedication photos that show a corner of an inside, with an angled ceiling that doesn't look like the wide-open high-ceiling of the photo of the 1960 old terminal (which looks like the same counters as in the Obama photo).
-PJ