Beverly Creamer writes for Hawaii Business magazine about its start in 1955, which makes it the oldest regional business magazine in the country.
Creamer writes, “And Ethel and Joe Murphy launched a magazine in July called Hawaii Engineer. By August 1962, the monthly had morphed into Hawaii Business; today it’s known as the first and oldest regional business magazine in the country. That August cover asked, ‘Office Space: Is Honolulu oversupplied?’ with pictures showing two office towers dominating an otherwise low-rise Honolulu skyline and an artist’s rendering of the proposed Bishop Insurance Building.
“Now don’t confuse this with a spy story or a whodunit. There are no murders or alien abductions to read about. No, this is better than that, because it’s about entrepreneurs in a time when few knew the word and no Google search existed to help folks connect the dots.
“It’s about a couple of dreamers who risked their savings to offer Hawai‘i a thoughtful monthly evaluation of the who, what, where, when, why and how of local business.”
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