1950s Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

A look back at the 1950s

By Journal on February 11, 2022 1950s, Back in the Day, Harold Burnett, John Lanham, Marshall Islands High Court, Nelson Doi Back In The Day

Journal 2/15/1985 P1 Now Majuro has a new sister This gloriously happy news is the outgrowth of a letter sent to Foreign Minister Tony deBrum last January by Kazuo Kinoshita, the headman of Kawai-cho city in Japan. P11 Doi to replace Lanham Former Lt. Governor of Hawaii Nelson Doi will replace John Lanham as Chief […]

1950s downtown Majuro look

By Journal on August 1, 2019 1950s, Clarence E. Takeuchi, Floyd K. Takeuchi, MIECO, MIECO building, quonset huts, Sadie Thompson News Archive

FLOYD K. TAKEUCHI Majuro Atoll in the late 1950s defined a quiet, slightly shabby backwater Pacific port town. There were still many reminders of the war, which had ended only about 15 years earlier. Among the obvious reminders were Quonset huts, pre-fabricated half-moon structures whose skin was corrugated metal, which were commonplace. Two of the […]