9th Avenue, Kaimuki - c. 1972 Circle Jade Apartments Zanes Market Photographs by Ian Lind

In 1972, we were living in the Circle Jade Apartments on Ninth Avenue, just off of Waialae, in Kaimuki. The building was owned by Dai Yen Chang, a dentist who once sat on the Honolulu Board of Supervisors, precurser of the City Council. Somehow, after his term on the board, he was able to get approval for a high rise building, the only one in Kaimuki. In his mid-80s at the time, Dr. Chang, a dentist, still practiced on friends and long-time patients in his office on the ground floor of the building. It was a great place to live. In 1988, after his death, it was converted into condominiums by his family and sold.

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