–>View the photos and news clippings about Gene “Tarzan” Smith In 1940, Gene “Tarzan” Smith paddled a surfboard from Oahu to the island of Kauai. The event was sponsored by the Hawaii Surfing Association which had been formed just a year earlier. When the Waikiki Surf Club was formed in 1947, Smith became its first [...]
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I keep turning up additional bits and pieces from the First National Surfing Championship held in Long Beach, California, in November and December, 1938. This week I found this wonderful glamour photo, apparently part of the publicity barrage for the event, along with a clip from the Los Angeles Times (unfortunately, no date recorded). The [...]
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[Note: click on any photo to see a full-size version.] Meda dropped me off to visit with my father late yesterday afternoon. She continues along Beretania Street and makes a sweep through the Goodwill Store while I head up the stairs to the third floor of the Oahu Care Facility, sign in the visitor log, [...]
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I suspect my dad knew his memory and health were failing well before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and moved to a nursing home at the end of 2008. Over several years prior to that time, he sat at an old electric typewriter and pecked away, recording recollections from his long life. Here’s another snippet [...]
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When I stopped to visit my dad one day last week, I walked into his room (shared with several others) to find that my sister was already there. Bonnie was busy working on his fingernails. At age 96, his fingernails seem to be on steroids. They grow. Bonnie tries to keep them under control. She [...]
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Another excerpt from my father’s rambling description of his life and times. John Lind arrived in Hawaii in 1939 and worked in the hotel and restaurant supply business until his retirement at the end of 1998, after more than 60 years in the business. War, it seems, was good business as the old adage, “an [...]
Here are two more photos found in my father’s files. He recalls that these were taken at a meeting of the Geneva Club, an organization made up of chefs and others in the culinary and food & beverage service world. It likely dates from the 1940s. That’s my dad, John M. Lind, on the right [...]
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I recently found the transcript of a January 2003 interview with my father, John M. Lind, done as part of the Moiliili Community Center Oral History Project. He was on their list because his company, Honolulu Restaurant Supply, was located near the corner of Beretania and McCully for 24 years. It’s a rambling and somewhat [...]
