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15 CRAIGSIDE

SORRY, MY SUNDAY BLOG WAS COMPLETED IN TIME.  BUT I FORGOT TO CLICK THE POST BUTTON.  TO READ IT, CLICK ON THIS . I've now lived at 15 Craigside, a retirement community, for a little more than a decade.  Fifteen years ago I saw this building coming up on land adjacent to 2101 Craigside, an un-related condominium.  Both structures are on the Mauka ( mountain or northside )-Diamond Head ( eastside ) corner of Nuuanu Avenue and Judd Street, land previously the campus of Iolani High School.  They moved to their present Ala Wai site in 1953. I had moved into my Craigside condo in 1982, returning from three years working in the U.S. Senate.  Above, typical sunset, double rainbow and day view from our penthouse second floor.  My wife had passed away around that time when 15 Craigside was clearing land.   They opened in March of 2011 .  To the right my first Craigside, and below, how it towers over 15 Craigside.  I had no particular interest in moving out of my penthouse overlooking all of