Remembering Hawaii in the 70’s and 80’s

[popolo]

acoss the street at cenral YCA snack ba two scoop rice and grav all over 20 cents

superbrowncat wrote:

yup, I remeber that playground...the one with the waterfall and wading pool that they had to get rid of. And the sandbox with the sculptures that I was too small to get up on. They had an ostrich sculpture made out of metal that somehow ended up at UH Manoa in the art department.
More at Ala Moanas & other stuffs:
*Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor...the "Zoo" with the plastic animals
*I think it was Keiki Land, where they had the boat ride, ferris wheel, and some others...was there a flying saucer?
*Woolworths that had a soda fountain and a huge staircase to get up to the second level...
*I remember a crack seed store downstairs
*Kramers for cool school clothes
*Famolare shoes with the wavy soles
across the street at central YMCA snack bar 2 scoop rice with gravy all over 20 cents
*Shirokiya's toy section where I got all my Kikaida and Rainbow man figures.
*Honolulu book store and the music store next door where you could listen to lp's.
*the Kikaider show at the Blaisdell where I took 2 rolls of film on my Kodak camera with the add-on flash cudes, in about a minute.
*I rember Roller World and wearing my skates in the restroom.
Too fun:)
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[Ace Ikeda]

Roller world was the best . Great friends like Tom , Danny , Eddie , kip , Keith , Dwayne and I playing roller hockey . Our team got to go to nationals in little rock . Beautiful girl skaters like Lisa , Rowena , Cheryl , Lori and Beth . It was the best of times .

[a friend]

shaughpe wrote:

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Does anyone know what happened to Lace??

Lace now lives in Las Vegas but has homes in both places and cares for her elderly mother when in Honolulu. She is a wonderful woman who never passes up the chance to help others. She is a shining example of how to embrace life.

[Tim]

Ala Moana 1978 - The Christmas puppet show twice a day on the stage. The Continental cafeteria style restaurant where one side was Chinese, the other side American food. Patty's Chinese restaurant. Outside across from KFC was Whitmore's Ribs and the local favorite Evergreen restaurant

[Joe Balls]

Tim wrote:

Ala Moana 1978 Patty's Chinese restaurant.

The Shoyu Chicken at Patty's was the best I ever ate for some reason. Something (extra sugar?) made it taste so good. My girlfriend used to go their just to get it for me. Barney's Drive in by the airport (still there) was second best for Shoyu Chicken.

[mauibuilt2013]

Kamipulu wrote:

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Don't forget Skyslide at Gibson's in Mapunapuna now Servco Auto Honolulu

oh yes my mom made those beer can yarn hats & Caps and she still have them too!

[VAIETE]

Joe Balls wrote:

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The Shoyu Chicken at Patty's was the best I ever ate for some reason. Something (extra sugar?) made it taste so good. My girlfriend used to go their just to get it for me. Barney's Drive in by the airport (still there) was second best for Shoyu Chicken.

Patty's! first time I've ever had frozen peas and carrots in fried rice (now it's common)
My step father (Viet Nam vet) told me that is a southeast asian way of making it.
SURE WAS GOOD!
Barney's? is that the place famous for the teri pork sandwiches?
I remember them (in my swine eating days) being fabulous!

V

[Joe Balls]

VAIETE wrote:

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Patty's! first time I've ever had frozen peas and carrots in fried rice (now it's common)
My step father (Viet Nam vet) told me that is a southeast asian way of making it.
SURE WAS GOOD!
Barney's? is that the place famous for the teri pork sandwiches?
I remember them (in my swine eating days) being fabulous!
V

LOL, I made a mistake. It's BYRON'S by the airport with the Shoyu Chicken. I was thinking of Barney's in Ewa Beach(Gone now). Barney's is now a Shiros.

[shavonne c]

I lived in Honolulu from 1970 to 1977. My lífe was very much a part of glades. Had many sisters & close friends. If anyone remember me, please contact me. Luana lucky,frank,sharon,dana,paula, lanei abraxous,serina and any one else that might renombre me.
Aloha shavonne

[Joe Balls]

shavonne c wrote:

I lived in Honolulu from 1970 to 1977. My lífe was very much a part of glades. Had many sisters & close friends. If anyone remember me, please contact me. Luana lucky,frank,sharon,dana,paula, lanei abraxous,serina and any one else that might renombre me.
Aloha shavonne

My wife still has her GLADES button!

[Deb Mason-Crowder]

nubi wrote:

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Wasn't there a Lani Moo song? Lani Moo, Lani Moo, queen of Meadow Gold (to the tune of Jingle Bells), but I forgot the rest.

OMG!!! Yes, there was!! I remember that too! Those were good times- being an army brat at Ft. Shafter in the 70's!

[VAIETE]

Deb Mason-Crowder wrote:

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OMG!!! Yes, there was!! I remember that too! Those were good times- being an army brat at Ft. Shafter in the 70's!

Hi Deb!

I spent some sleepovers on Shafter ('75-'76)
Did you know the Reid family?
Allen, Michael, Susan and their cool dog Otto.
I saw Jaws, The Trial Of Billy Jack, The Hindenburg and more at
the Ft. Shafter theatre.
If you were there then; we probably ate some of the same popcorn.
You had one of the best libraries on the island there,
The sport section was phenomenal!
I was "recruited" to play football for the Shafter Condors right in the bowling alley
one night.
But I was too short to play the position I wanted, which was fullback, I wanted to be like Larry Csonka, you know OLD TIME FOOTBALL!
Frank Lewis, one of my schoolmates, was the star of that team.

Cheers
V

[VAIETE]

Joe Balls wrote:

<quoted text>LOL, I made a mistake. It's BYRON'S by the airport with the Shoyu Chicken. I was thinking of Barney's in Ewa Beach(Gone now). Barney's is now a Shiros.

Byron's that was the place.
I just now searched to make sure!
and I'm about to cry...it's closing February twenty eighth and later to be be torn down.

IN-F NG-CREDIBLE!

[Joe Balls]

VAIETE wrote:

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Byron's that was the place.
I just now searched to make sure!
and I'm about to cry...it's closing February twenty eighth and later to be be torn down.
IN-F NG-CREDIBLE!

Damn, a friend of mine's mother cooked there for over thirty years and I didn't even know it until after she retired. Old Hawaii is fading fast, be prepared to become a ghetto suburb of Los Angeles.

[VAIETE]

" Old Hawaii is fading fast"
Same same!
In the Hitchcock classic Vertigo (1958)
the film's "heavy" says "Scotty, the things the that spell San Francisco to me;
are quickly fading"
YOU AIN'T NEVER LIED!
Right after this weekends N.F.C. championship game, in "my" neighbourhood,
the ancestral home of the Forty Niners, other than myself, I DIDN'T SEE
ONE PERSON wearing a cap, jersey, sweatshirt or t shirt.
Plenty of people out and about, but no visible natives, nor facsimiles.
I was in a taxi which covered about ten blocks of the area.
It wasn't until we were near the Mission district that it began to appear normal;
lot'sa Niners gear, and fans honking their horns, and whooping it up!
Used to be during all those past N.F.C. title games, you didn't even have to
watch the game, you just had to open your window, and could tell by the
cheering (or moans and groans) what was going on in the game...no more.
V

[Gabe]

Don't you feel that you're living in a world that is now populated primarily by tourists?

[Gabe]

I never got sunburned as a kid the way I do now.

Haven't the tv weather newspeople stopped reporting the UV index?

Is there a reason for that?

[VAIETE]

Gabe wrote:

Don't you feel that you're living in a world that is now populated primarily by tourists?

YEA! shows that our ancestors, recent or otherwise, had exquisite taste when choosing a place to
live, LIVE not itinerantly transmute.

[Joe Balls]

Gabe wrote:

I never got sunburned as a kid the way I do now.
Haven't the tv weather newspeople stopped reporting the UV index?
Is there a reason for that?

They don't report radiation levels from Fukushima either. Only tourist-friendly news allowed. Same way they don't report casualties list from Obama's wars.

[VAIETE]

Joe Balls wrote:

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They don't report radiation levels from Fukushima either. Only tourist-friendly news allowed. Same way they don't report casualties list from Obama's wars.

Your Homeboy IS indefensible on escalating these illegal wars.
But let me ask you something;
After 9/11 were you one of the many in the cheering section hoping for a pound of flesh
and lower gas prices?...at who's expense?

I didn't vote for any the remaining candidates in the 2008 General election
because they all hinted at exactly that; escalation.

I'll attempt to tie in to this thread;
In 1975 some of the refugees from that tragedy called "Viet Nam" started attending Aliamanu.
I can't imagine what that must have been like, leaving your relatives, friends and culture behind,
and being essentially an exile.

And all those killings and maimings on both sides for nothing,,,not a damned thing.

V