Hawaii’s sports history lives on in Downtown Honolulu

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – For these fascinated by getting misplaced within the historical past of Hawaii sports activities and tradition, they’ll enter the portal that’s the Outdated Queen Avenue Stadium.

From Nineteen Seventies College of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball gear to Hawaii Winter Baseball memorabilia, the downtown store is a fruits of years spent gathering, buying and selling, and bartering.

Earlier than shifting right into a brick and mortar location, Faller, together with brothers Kevin and Chester Sebastian, would put their classic objects on show at pop-up occasions through the pandemic.

“All the things Hawaii, so I had recreation jerseys myself,” mentioned Outdated Queen Avenue Stadium co-founder Kevin Faller. “I had plenty of basketball joints, soccer joints, Chester actually had plenty of the baseball joints. So all of us collected all various things.”

After producing a large quantity of group buzz, month-to-month occasions was a brick and mortar spot in downtown that opened final October.

The title is a play off of the Outdated Honolulu Stadium and it’s one half store, one half museum.

“I need it to be a spot the place we may honor our native legends,” co-founder Kevin Sebastian mentioned. “Whether or not they be athletes, musicians, public figures, politicians, that’s why we constructed all of this.”

Faller echoes that sentiment, saying the enterprise is a option to pay tribute to Hawaii’s wealthy sports activities historical past.

“We’re making an attempt to create, not re-create, however relive the customs of the previous,” Faller defined. “The tailgating, the tales of the Outdated Honolulu stadium, and simply the richness of the sounds and the feelings that will come along with the identical ardour or the identical function.”

Even the athletes themselves come to reminisce as well-known clients embody UH quarterback Michael Carter and legendary Nationwide Basketball Affiliation assistant and former Bow Phil Helpful.

This store isn’t only a place to purchase as trades are additionally welcome.

“Once we hear folks have their different objects that we might have curiosity in, we’ll inform them to return down and we’ll check out them,” Sebastian mentioned. “In the event that they see one thing that they need, we’ll go from there, we’ll begin negotiating.”

These kinds of transactions mixed with a love for all issues Hawaii is what stuffed this retailer with 1000’s of things and the hope is to maintain filling it and increasing.

However, simply as beneficial because the merchandise are the conversations and recollections they conjure.

“Tales is our foreign money right here on the Outdated Queen Avenue Stadium the place experiences matter,” Faller mentioned. “The tales and the timelines, all of them matter they usually’re all actual.”

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