Magoo’s is pau tomorrow

Both Hon­olulu papers have added sev­eral blogs over the last year, so we are get­ting more local news and com­ments on their web sites.

Case in point: the Star-Bulletin’s So Nec­es­sary blog reported Tues­day that Magoo’, the fabled bar at Puck’s Alley near UH-Manoa, is clos­ing its doors tomor­row. I don’t get to Magoo’s often, but it’s one of my favorite places and I’ll miss it.
There was a follow-up arti­cle in yesterday’s Hon­olulu Star-Bulletin, and a hint that new own­er­ship may open their own restau­rant in the same space next month. Magoo’s will use 10 vans to sell pizza around the island.

Kama­he­meha Schools bought Puck’s Alley last year, and today the Star-Bulletin announced that Kame­hameha schools has pur­chased the Var­sity The­ater across the street. The Var­sity closed its doors last week, with a sim­i­lar lack of advance notice. Expect con­struc­tion, ren­o­va­tion, and new busi­ness in a year or two. Con­struc­tion will fin­ish soon at another Kame­hameha prop­erty, the Royal Hawai­ian Shop­ping Cen­ter, which may become a fourth cam­pus for the schools accord­ing to another Star-Bulletin arti­cle today.

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