Remembering Hawaii in the50's & 60's

[Cutchase64]

Wha? Whaddaya mean you guys dunno how to use da
computers-you old futs! Hah? You no remembah?
K-den..comeback afta 2 months on Ginko Biloba.

[adobo]

I'll need Ginko Biloba to remember that far.

[Cutchase64]

Lemme see:
Tres Flores Brillanteen (Slick da hair)
3/4 sleeve shirt
chicks with Annette Funicello hair
side pocket on the "Drapes (Bell-bottom-like pants)"
for a comb.
Oxfords( 2 tone shoes) for gals & guys.
The Twist (Chubby Checker).
45 rpm with the metal stuff in the center.
Tidal wave hair style and sideburns.
Elvis was big
Ricky nelson
Alfred Apaka
Kui Lee
Arthur Lyman
Hawaiian Eye with Poncie Ponce
Lani Moo
Bob Sevey
Rabbit Ear TV with Tin Foil

[nubi]

This is really stretching my memory, but I think our car had a push button starter. There was a Flying A gas station in my neighborhood. And then Phillips 66. Stamps were 6 cents.

We had a TV antenna on our roof. We could only catch one station clearly at at time, cuz we lived in valley. Every couple of months, my dad would adjust the antenna and we could catch another station clearly. And when you turned off the TV, there'd be small white dot in the middle of the screen for a while.

[adobo]

Cutchase64 wrote:

Lemme see:
Tres Flores Brillanteen (Slick da hair)
3/4 sleeve shirt
chicks with Annette Funicello hair
side pocket on the "Drapes (Bell-bottom-like pants)"
for a comb.
Oxfords( 2 tone shoes) for gals & guys.
The Twist (Chubby Checker).
45 rpm with the metal stuff in the center.
Tidal wave hair style and sideburns.
Elvis was big
Ricky nelson
Alfred Apaka
Kui Lee
Arthur Lyman
Hawaiian Eye with Poncie Ponce
Lani Moo
Bob Sevey
Rabbit Ear TV with Tin Foil

Tres Flores and Seventeen Brillantine pomade was the same brands my dad used to use.

http://a1061.g.akamai.net/7/1061/5412/home/ww...

[Cutchase64]

nubi wrote:

This is really stretching my memory, but I think our car had a push button starter. There was a Flying A gas station in my neighborhood. And then Phillips 66. Stamps were 6 cents.
We had a TV antenna on our roof. We could only catch one station clearly at at time, cuz we lived in valley. Every couple of months, my dad would adjust the antenna and we could catch another station clearly. And when you turned off the TV, there'd be small white dot in the middle of the screen for a while.

hahahahaha..I'm chuckling already!!!

I almost forgot about the 6 cent stamps.

I still can't shake the "Hele on Braddah"
jingle from Lippy Espinda-first full on pidgin
talking commercial.

[Translator]

Cutchase64 wrote:

Lemme see:
Tres Flores Brillanteen (Slick da hair)
3/4 sleeve shirt
chicks with Annette Funicello hair
side pocket on the "Drapes (Bell-bottom-like pants)"
for a comb.
Oxfords( 2 tone shoes) for gals & guys.
The Twist (Chubby Checker).
45 rpm with the metal stuff in the center.
Tidal wave hair style and sideburns.
Elvis was big
Ricky nelson
Alfred Apaka
Kui Lee
Arthur Lyman
Hawaiian Eye with Poncie Ponce
Lani Moo
Bob Sevey
Rabbit Ear TV with Tin Foil

Madras shirts?

[Cutchase64]

adobo wrote:

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Tres Flores and Seventeen Brillantine pomade was the same brands my dad used to use.
http://a1061.g.akamai.net/7/1061/5412/home/ww...

Incredible image of the past-it was sticky stuff.
Now that I think about it, it made the guys look
like wax museum fugitives.

[Cutchase64]

Translator wrote:

<quoted text>
Madras shirts?

I had a collection from Kramers.
They smelled a certain way. I think they
should bring 'em back. Very comfy.
As dorky as it sounds, I had a Pat Boone
sweater and high water pants.
Thought I was cool-gads!

[ETA136]

I was a little kid in the 50s, but the 60s?

I definitely remember the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.

movies... Goldfinger, Dr. No, Thunderball, The Graduate

Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Tommy James and the Shondells, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Monkees, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, The Cascades, Drifters, The Vogues, many many more...

Male Vocalists: Johnny Rivers, Johnny Cash, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Johnny Tillotsen, Paul Peterson, Ricky Nelson, Tom Jones?, Elvis Presley, B J Thomas

Female Vocalists:

Garage Band songs:
Hang on Sloopy
Louie Louie
Gloria
Mustang Sally
In the Midnite Hour

Surf music/Instrumentals
Walk Don't Run
Journey to the Stars
Apache
Pipeline
Wipeout
Love Goddess of Venus
Love is Blue
Classical Gas

We cannot forget American Bandstand!

[ETA136]

oops: didn't fill out any Female Vocalists...

Brenda Lee, Lesley Gore, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross & Supremes, Helen Reddy, Petula Clark, Judy Collins, Minnie Ripperton, Cher (w/ Sonny)

[ETA136]

What about fall-out shelters? Anybody had one on their property?

[Cutchase64]

Eclectic melodies on the Hit Parade:
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Leader of The Pack
The Ventures
Walk Don't Run
Wipe Out

"Endless Summer" surf flick

Aloha Air had prop planes

Relatives would bring back "See's Candies"
when coming back from the mainland.

[Cutchase64]

ETA136 wrote:

I was a little kid in the 50s, but the 60s?
I definitely remember the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
movies... Goldfinger, Dr. No, Thunderball, The Graduate
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Tommy James and the Shondells, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Monkees, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, The Cascades, Drifters, The Vogues, many many more...
Male Vocalists: Johnny Rivers, Johnny Cash, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Johnny Tillotsen, Paul Peterson, Ricky Nelson, Tom Jones?, Elvis Presley, B J Thomas
Female Vocalists:
Garage Band songs:
Hang on Sloopy
Louie Louie
Gloria
Mustang Sally
In the Midnite Hour
Surf music/Instrumentals
Walk Don't Run
Journey to the Stars
Apache
Pipeline
Wipeout
Love Goddess of Venus
Love is Blue
Classical Gas
We cannot forget American Bandstand!

Fantastic! Reading about this on the post
is different than looking at the oldies
section at Borders (for some reason).

I'm sure everyone can remember what they were
doing the moment on hearing of JFK's assassination.I was in English class and it
came over the P.A. Our (male) teacher went
outside and cried.

[Cutchase64]

Don Ho was on the Ed Sullivan show.
The era of "Tiny Bubbles" swept America.

[nubi]

On Sunday mornings, there was a Christian TV show where a woman would tell a Bible story and do live illustrations with chalk. On Sunday afternoons, Aku hosted Shirley Temple Movietime. Too bad kids nowadays don't know Shirley Temple.

We did Duck and Cover drills in school on the first of the month.

My mom used Adorn hairspray and we kids used VO-5 oil. What was Vitalis? I remember the name.

Rotary dial phones and 6-digit phone numbers!

We put "red medicine" on cuts. No Bactine then.

[adobo]

TV shows I used to watch in the 60s was:

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Twelve O'Clock High
Bewitched
Petty
Beverly Hillbillies
Addams Family
Batman
Combat
Rat Patrol
I Dream of Jeannie
Green Acres
Munsters
Gilligan's Island
Get Smart
Green Hornet
Star Trek
Mission Impossible
F Troop
Mr. Ed
My Three Sons
I Spy
Hogan's Heroes
Lost In Space
Lucy Show
Gomer Pyle
Adam 12
My Favorite Martian
Thunderbirds
Capt. Scarlett
Hee Haw
Flipper
Route 66
The Rifleman
The Fugitvie
That Girl
Family Affair
FBI
Land of the Giants
Mod Squad

[Cutchase64]

ETA136 wrote:

What about fall-out shelters? Anybody had one on their property?

I don't know anyone who did, but in the
50's we did A-bomb drills. As kids, we were
instructed to crouch under the tables
after moving the tables away from the windows.
I guess the N-bomb put a stop to that drill.

[adobo]

Cutchase64 wrote:

Relatives would bring back "See's Candies"
when coming back from the mainland.

Once See's Candies came to Hawaii in the 70s it stopped. Then when ever friends or relative went to Vegas they would bring back Ethel M's chocolate. We have that now in Hawaii.

[Cutchase64]

nubi wrote:

On Sunday mornings, there was a Christian TV show where a woman would tell a Bible story and do live illustrations with chalk. On Sunday afternoons, Aku hosted Shirley Temple Movietime. Too bad kids nowadays don't know Shirley Temple.
We did Duck and Cover drills in school on the first of the month.
My mom used Adorn hairspray and we kids used VO-5 oil. What was Vitalis? I remember the name.
Rotary dial phones and 6-digit phone numbers!
We put "red medicine" on cuts. No Bactine then.

Good ones. The was Loretta Young who seemed
Mz. Perfecto. Yeah, my mmadda used Adorn also
and life in the mornings getting ready for school revolved around a big blue transistor radio.

The longest running style in Hawaii for guys
were : Aloha shirt; Khaki pants; black tanker
shoes. Cars were going nuts with giant fins.