hAloha, Everybody 'sjMarket t . By Smart Ykn, Star-Bulletin Writer 9 0 M23L 'T HERE are no more tomor rows at Everybody's," read a hand-painted sign on tne wau above the dairy prod-d ucts. Yesterday was the last day of '''business at Everybody's Super 1 Market at Kapiolani and McCuIly. !"The land has been subleased to ' Host Duty Free operations by Chun ! Hoon Ltd.,-which owns Chun ' Hoon's and Everybody's markets. By noon yesterday, the shelves at Everybody's were half empty. Every item was 20 percent off and lhere was a steady stream of cus-.sC'tomers going in and out of the Store. Some of the customers pick-Li lin a Mtnnla nf itamo mrot rf ' them just came to say goodbye to :ld friends the clerks, cashiers nd butchers. ! They were what made Everybody's special, a market for everybody, a neighborhood grocery store on the corner of one of the busiest ; intersections in town. Everybody's Super Market opened in 1949 and while a lot changed around it, there were .things about the store that never 'changed. At Everybody's Super Market, the palaka-clad employees knew regular customers by name. The butchers still waited on cus- " tomers and felt it was their duty to tell you when something wasn't a good buy. The cashiers asked about children and grandchildren. A bagboy would push your cart to your car and place groceries in the back seat. You didn't have to ask; it was part of their job. If you were on foot and bought more than $25 worth of groceries not very difficult these days the bag boy would drive you home in the store's van. Customers appreciated all of this. They came from all over the Island to shop at the market. Local people who had moved out of the area. tourists who spent winters in Waikiki con dominiums, college kids living in apartments in the area. Some shopped once a week, some shop ped every day. A lot of them stopped by yesterday. "We have a lot of loyal customers," said Cathy Yamauchi, head cashier. Yamauchi had brought her camera to take photographs of the last day. "A customer who said she felt so bad about us closing brought the employees noodles for lunch. Other custom ers nave Drougni us .cakes and pies. They say jthey want to show their .appreciation for all these .years. f"It makes you cry," said Betty Fong, liquor , department manager, ;,who has been with the "store 25 years. v In the store room at I the back of the building, 1 Kimi Takaoka and Marian Yang, '""who were in charge of produce, posed shyly for a photograph. Yang said she had been at Everybody's since December 1951. Takaoka said she had worked at the store since March 12, 1952. They said the employee working that day who had been with the store the longest was head butcher Arthur Lau. A white-haired couple had driven in from Makaha to pick up some ' groceries and to say goodbye to Lau. "We're going to miss you," said the wife to the butcher. "He's a good butcher, such service," said her husband. THE COUPLE reluctantly left and another woman approched Lau. "I feel terrible," she said to Lau. "I've been in the Orient and I just got back and I heard about the store closing. I don't go to the big supermarkets because I've gotten such good service here. "You put an emphasis on quality as well as service and I can always run in and out to pick up things." "We've appreciated all your business," said Lau tactfully. 5 2 t ger 1 , . . .. ' .. d-Jw3.v tiMMMS.'. Xr CP iiiiiiiiiii -r -J lm00i Hi 7 L tH 1 . km K tmmi Star-Bulletin Today Features Entertainment Wadrmdoy. Jura 24, 1981 Horolulu 2& Ine Morning 4 "I've lived here six years," said the woman to the reporter, "and everybody in this store has been great. If I want to make Portuguese bean soup, I can call up and tell them how many I want to serve and they pull all the ingredients together for me. I do a lot of things on the spur of the moment and I can call up and say I want a special roast and they'll get one for me. "I just asked Arthur about the ham over here," she said, pointing to cans of ham, "and even though it's his last day he, still said, subtly, that it's a good ham but he indicated that another brand is just as good. He's always been honest and I think customers appreciate that. "There's my friend, too," she said, waving to butcher Fat Kui Goo, who has worked at Everybody's for 16 years. "Plenny people come today," Goo said. "Some people, the tears come down." Goo summoned Lau, who is 62 and has worked at Everybody's for 30 years. "This used to be an army warehouse," Lau said. "We haven't changed it except to remodel it a little bit. All kinds of people have " always lived around here. Lots of . good people come here. "Alfred Apaka Sr. was a regular customer. Jack Lord walked in here one day. Zoulou used to be our ' regular customer but I haven't seen him recently," Lau said. Some of the store's employees will retire, others are looking for jobs. Host Duty Free will interview those who are interested in working for the company. "I'm going to retire," Lau said. "I don't think I'd want to work for anyone else except maybe part-time. Over here we don't work as employees, we work as one big family." But Goo, who is 78, tried retiring once and didn't like it. He is looking for a part-time job, preferably as a butcher, although he filled out an application with Host Duty "He doesn't have to work," Lau said, pointing to Goo. "He works because he enjoys it." Afong Leong, a retired printer who has shopped at Everybody's for 30 years, hailed the butchers. He wasn't pushing a cart. He had stopped by for the last time because, as he put it, "it's aloha day." 1 pill 1 - -- MM IRS 7t met nit 1 m A mm '?- - I X I Top right, head cashier Cathy Yamauchi takes snapthots of Everybody's last day. Above left, . butchers Arthur Lau and Fat Kui Goo have worked at the market for a combined total of 46 years. Above, Marian Yang and Kimi Takaoka have been there since the early '50s. Left, losN ; day shoppers in the nearly ' empty aisles. -. Star-Bulletin . photos by John ' Titchen.