Ala Moana Building — Local services in Honolulu

La Ronde, Honolulu. Perched atop the Ala Moana Building like a UFO that mistook a shopping center for a landing pad, this was America’s first revolving restaurant, opening its doors in 1961. Brainchild of architect John Graham, the same visionary who later spun up Seattle’s Space Needle, La Ronde offered diners a 360-degree view of paradise, completing a full rotation every hour.  

The menu? A mid-century medley featuring delights like shrimp cocktail and mahi-mahi, served with a side of mild vertigo. But the real showstopper was the view—Honolulu unfolding beneath you as you sipped your cocktail, the city lights twinkling like sequins on a hula skirt.  

However, novelty has a shelf life. By the 1990s, La Ronde had rotated its last, succumbing to mechanical issues and the public’s waning interest. The space was repurposed for offices, and the revolving floor was welded stationary, perhaps to prevent office chairs from endlessly drifting away. 

Today, the Ala Moana Building still stands, its stationary crown a relic of a time when dining and dizziness went hand in hand. La Ronde’s legacy? A reminder that, in the world of dining, what goes around comes around—sometimes...

The Ala Moana Building has a I I believe have 6 elevators and each elevator sets only four people alone in each area with the work force and relatives and families and friends from around the country. The management experience has been extremely helpful when dealing with covid.19 lacking disinfect and sanitize. The elevators button is where people that will spread the covid-19 to each other coworkers visiters doctors office and other companies the elevator is contaminating other people other elevators office every floor should have a sanitizer with something to clean our hands yet keeping us from getting covid.19. every floor should have sanitizer so you don't need four people to a elevator everyone who enter each elevator is hands clean . If you choose to stay cheap. Hang it in the back of each elevator with sanitizer for the public....

Avoid until renovations are completed. No available listing or directory at elevator access. You have know which floor ofc business your going to. Not all elevators are in operation. No completion date available for...