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Seventy years in the same house

February 1st, 2013 · 10 Comments · History

My mother lived in this 916 square foot house along Kealaolu Avenue in old Kahala for 70 years. Today it’s pretty much as it was when they bought it in 1942. The house is much as it was, but the yard, and the neighborhood, have changed dramatically. Yesterday my sister and I surveyed the situation [...]

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The missing video from this morning’s post

September 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · History, video

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 [...]

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Some WWII era photos from my mother’s collection (and more to come)

September 8th, 2010 · 6 Comments · History, Photographs

I stopped by to see my mother yesterday morning. She had been sorting through her own boxes of old photos, and had set aside several for me. First, a photo of my dad in his full regalia as a member of the Businessmen’s Training Corps. In Kahala, and in other neighborhoods, civilians joined the BTC [...]

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