HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi’s Ala Moana Center opened in 1959 with a promise that seemed almost unreal at the time.
The land beneath it had once been swampy Kālia, an area filled with ponds, kalo patches and kiawe thickets.
The parcel changed hands through the aliʻi before it was listed for sale in 1884 under the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop…