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Entries from September 15th, 2009

Photographer Clarence Maki on camera

September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · History, Photographs

One-time Star-Bulletin photographer Dick Schmidt spotted the photos by Clarence Maki among my dad’s collection and went digging into his own stacks of yellow Kodak photo paper boxes which store his old photographs. Dick writes: It was in one of those yellow boxes today that I found a print of Clarence Maki I remembered shooting [...]

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Feedback needed on how to organize years of vintage photos & documents

September 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments · General, History

There’s a lot of good stuff buried in the past entries here at iLind.net. Vintage photos, various documents, but now lost in the complex back rooms of this decade-old venture. So I’m trying to figure out how to make as much of this more readily accessible. I started on an index/directory as a test. This [...]

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Howard gets it wrong on rail

September 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Politics

I was quite sorry to see Howard Dicus misrepresenting the history and status of Honolulu’s rail project and taking an overtly biased stance towards anything other than the Hannemann’s administration’s party line. Howard’s comments came in a blog entry on Sunday in which he dismisses the alternative plan developed by a consultant hired by Kamehameha [...]

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More vintage photos from John Lind’s Waikiki Surf Club collection

September 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · History, John Lind Collection, Photographs

I am slowly sorting and scanning my way through stacks of photographs and documents from the early years of the Waikiki Surf Club which are among my dad’s papers, and have another batch of 18 photos ready to go. Here’s one of the classics–Surf legend Tom Blake, at the far left, presents the perpetual team [...]

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