Form follows function, and the function of an air terminal in 1961 wasn't all that different from 1971.
Things really started changing (oddly enough) in 1971 when Intel intorduced the first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
Go here for the debate in one, simplified snapshot:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/posts?page=2965#2965
If you want the full debate, I will go through the posts and pull the URLs that jellybean found.
Look at the last picture, that is the new terminal. What gives it all away is both of Obama’s airport photos have the polls with the town names on them.
They are not in the new terminal.
Therefore, those airport photos are from before 1965.
I know that that international airport construction was making REALLY big changes around that time, especially in overall design, especially Honolulu. It was the first international airport in the U.S. to be designed from the ground up to handle jet aircraft. I’d find it exceedingly strange that they would redesign the interior of the terminal of the new airport to look just like the terminal of the old airport. I’ll find out from my uncle who went there frequently on business throughout the 60s.
According to my uncle, the old Honolulu terminal was a semi-open affair with a thatched roof. He said the picture of the Pan American section and the pictures with Obama and mom and dad were taken in the new terminal. I guess the HawaiianAviation folks mislabeled it as “old terminal” 1960. I asked him again just to make sure. I’ll let you know.