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Three generations of the Takahashi family have lived and worked on this property since family patriarch Yoshitaru Takahashi and his wife Mayo moved here at the beginning of Yoshitaru’s long tenure with the near-by Waialua Soda Works. The Episcopal Church, whose ownership of the property dated back to the late 1800s, established a meeting hall here in the 1930s to serve St. Stephen’s in the Field. George and Chieko Takahashi purchased the building and surrounding property from the church in 1946.
The Takahashi family started a tradition of family- owned restaurants with the operation of their restaurant in the late 1930s and 1940s. Nakai Saimin followed from the 1950s through 1981 after which the Campbell family opened their Café Hale‘iwa in 1982. Over the years, the building housed other restaurants, a bank, and numerous small retail businesses, including the Araki Barber Shop and Pool Hall, Fukunaga Dry Cleaners, J. Bolosan Grocery, and the Deep Ecology Dive Shop.