Smith's Union Bar in Honolulu 1934 - 2025? Fading away with the last of the Pearl Harbor Survivors

[Salvage Sailor]

 

The final closing date is unclear, however Asuncion said, “It depends on how long it takes us to sell whatever liquor we got left... Till the liquor runs out — ride it till the wheels fall off.”

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Established in 1934 on Hotel Street, the bar has endured decades and was famous as the watering hole of the crew of the USS Arizona before its destruction during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. For years after, veterans would return to the bar on the anniversary of the attack, and it gained a reputation as a neighborhood dive bar that was open almost every day of the week.⁠

 

 

 

 

[dan]

Never been there but will be sad to see it go. If those walls could talk.....................!