Here’s another fabulous old photo and a test for the sleuthing skills of readers. According to the caption, it’s the First Distinguished Service Award Community Dinner, held January 22, 1941, at the Pacific Club in Honolulu. The award dinner was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Click on the photo for a greatly enlarged [...]
It took me a while yesterday, between other appointments, to wrestle this little bit of iPhone video into proper shape. It finally fell into place late in the afternoon, and I uploaded the video to YouTube on Wednesday night. You may want to review the earlier entry again for more details on the photos. Oh–the [...]
I was prowling through some old computer files in search of a particular photo and ran across these two short videos of photos taken during the struggle a decade ago to rescue the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from closure. Those involved with recognize friends and colleagues, some who have died in the intervening years, many others no [...]
The caption on this 1953 publicity photo identifies the first women competitors, which I believe refers to their participation in the Makaha International Surfing Championships. L to R: Ethel Kukea, Betty Heldreich, Jane Kaopuiki. It’s one of several more vintage photos from my dad’s collection of papers and photos dating back to the early days [...]
Remember the scandals back in the 1980s over the Pentagon’s $435 hammers and $640 toilet seats? Now Hawaii apparently has it’s own entry in the same category of overpriced items. A state’s Department of Defense contract for laundry services apparently had it paying $107 for the once-a-week washing of the two sheets, pillow case, and [...]
I managed a first pass through some of the special election contribution data yesterday. First stop, Colleen Hanabusa. A quick query led to this list of top contributors to Hanabusa’s campaign during 2009-2010. The data were downloaded from the Federal Election Commission. They include those giving $4000 or more during the period. This list appears [...]
Tags: Colleen Hanabusa·Daniel K. Inouye·Hawaii·Special Election
This is why we can still feel like Kaaawa is in the “country”. Sunday morning, about 7:15 a.m. I’m standing in the middle of Kamehameha Highway looking in the direction of Punaluu and beyond. Of course, there’s a bit of irony in the fact that we drive nearly an hour from downtown Honolulu in order [...]
Four photos from my friend, Jim Lindblad, with questions and comments. Then there’s this emblem. Jim explains: “The emblem is from envelopes at Pearl Harbor Navel Shipyard, just after December 7, 1941. I discovered it in my grandfather’s collection of things.” Anyone familiar with this?
Tags: 1952·Hawaii·Tripler Army Medical Center·Tripler Hospital
