During a typical weekday lunch at The Pacific Club’s dining room, executives at one table discuss a company’s future, and at another, nonprofit leaders plan their next big fundraiser. Attorneys, architects, educators, entrepreneurs, bankers and politicians are scattered here and there arranging deals, proposing innovations, defusing crises and building relationships that might last a lifetime.
Similar scenes have played out for generations at The Pacific Club.
As it celebrates its 175th anniversary this year, the private club at Queen Emma Street and Vineyard Boulevard continues to fulfill its main purpose: bringing together people who help shape Hawaiʻi.
A History of Building Trust
Long before emails, phones and Zoom, personal and business relationships were built on something simpler, people sat down with each other and talked, often while sharing food and drinks…