Aloha Tower Marketplace

This guide to Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu starts at the tower itself, Hawaii's tallest building when it opened in 1926, its beam visible fifteen miles out to sea, and the 'boat days' that filled this deck as passenger liners turned into the harbor. It follows the tower into 1994, when developers built a $544 million festival marketplace around its base, styled after Baltimore's Harborplace and meant to rival Waikiki. Lei sellers, the Royal Hawaiian Band and a giant clock once greeted every arriving ship here.