A. Pake Zane has been buying, selling, and appraising Hawaiian antiques since the late 1970s, and Antique Alley in Honolulu is the showcase for everything that expertise has gathered along the way. Zane, whose credentials include appearances as an appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, built the shop into a destination packed with a century of island material culture: vintage Hawaiian shirts and aloha wear, koa wood furniture, tiki carvings, old surfboards, hula and tourism memorabilia, vintage advertising art, magazines, maps, photographs, and the kind of promotional ephemera that once sold Hawaii to the rest of the world. Knowledgeable staff work the floor to help serious collectors track down specific pieces, which is part of why the shop has become a known stop for people building focused Hawaiiana collections rather than just browsing for souvenirs.
The business now operates from 1030 Queen Street in Honolulu’s Kakaako neighborhood, a move it made after outgrowing its earlier home on Kapiolani Boulevard. Kakaako itself has become one of Honolulu’s most reinvented districts in recent years, mixing warehouse-turned-gallery spaces, street murals, and a growing restaurant scene with older industrial buildings, and Antique Alley’s presence there gives the neighborhood a direct link back to decades of island history even as the surrounding blocks modernize. The shop is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 12:30pm to 5:30pm, staying closed Wednesdays and Sundays, and can be reached at 808-941-8551 for questions about specific inventory or appraisal help.
What separates Antique Alley from a general secondhand store is the sheer density of vetted, period-specific material packed into one space, curated by someone with decades of hands-on trade experience rather than assembled through random consignment. Visitors regularly describe the shop as stuffed floor to ceiling with finds, the kind of place where a single visit might turn up a vintage tiki mug, a stack of old Hawaii travel posters, and a piece of koa furniture within a few feet of each other. That density, combined with an owner who has spent close to fifty years learning what genuine island antiques are worth and how to authenticate them, is what keeps return collectors coming back rather than treating it as a one-time stop.
For visitors to Oahu looking to bring home something with real history attached, or for local collectors chasing a specific piece of vintage Hawaiiana, Antique Alley offers both inventory and expertise that are hard to find in one place elsewhere on the island. The shop’s move into Kakaako has also put it within easy reach of the neighborhood’s newer galleries, coffee shops, and murals, making a visit easy to combine with an afternoon spent exploring the area on foot. Whether the goal is furnishing a home with authentic koa pieces, adding to a collection of vintage aloha shirts, or simply seeing decades of Hawaii’s commercial and cultural history laid out under one roof, this Kakaako shop delivers a browsing experience built on genuine expertise rather than a rotating grab-bag of secondhand goods.
In short, Antique Alley is a Kakaako institution built around one appraiser’s near half-century of Hawaiiana expertise, a five-day-a-week shop at 1030 Queen Street where koa furniture, vintage aloha wear, tikis, and decades of island advertising art fill the floor for collectors and casual browsers alike.
