June 1, 2008
Maile Pink Market
The Maile Pink Market is an instituion on the Waianae Coast. Ask most anyone how long it’s been there and they’ll say “fo’evah.” Ask someone for directions to any place between Nanakuli and the Waianae Mall and they’ll probably use the Pink Market in their directions. You can’t miss it if you’re driving along Farrington Highway, the highway that you have to use to get to anywhere or from anywhere out here. It’s very, very pink.
Being right across the highway from Maile Beach Park, the Pink Market carries all the stuff you might have forgotten or run out of when you’ve having a luau or grad party. They’re a small store, maybe a little smaller than the average convenince store, but they manage to pack a lot of variety into the space they have available. I don’t think I can buy extra computer memory at the Pink Market, but they’ve got almost everything else you might need in an emergency, or when you don’t want to drive forever just to get some baby powder or roasting pan for your turkey.
Forgot to get a gift for the birhtday party? Maile Pink Market’s got you covered! I usually go there when it’s nine o’clock in the evening and I’ve just realized there is no chocolate in house. Or ice. Or ciggies.
Susan takes care of cutomers with a radiant personality and, for today, a shirt that matches the store. Her hubby is around somewhere. He’s always there lending a hand when it’s her shift. She tells me that Maile Pink Market has been around for “about twenty years,” and that the man and woman I always see when she’s not there are her brother and his wife. I think they own the store, or maybe the whole family does. Whoever you meet when you go there, the folks at Maile Pink Market are always friendly, always welcoming, always helpful. It’s that kind of place.
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