SLIDESHOW: Photos Show A Changing Waikiki

A photographic history of the construction of the canal and development that followed.
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Historic photos, many from the Hawaii State Archives, show how the Ala Wai Canal changed the Waikiki area. From lush farms, fields and wetlands to a lanscape scraped and filled by dredging machines and other turn-of-the-century equipment, business and civic leaders transformed the area.

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