I surprised and pleased to learn yesterday that paddlers from the Waikiki Surf Club are wearing shirts honoring my father, John Lind, during the current canoe racing season. My dad was one of the club’s founders and served as its first president, among other things. He died in October 2010. The shirt features a photo [...]
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Here are a few more things culled from among my dad’s papers. The small news clipping is undated. It reports on a request from the Hawaii Surfing Association to the city for surfboard lockers on the beach. My dad helped to found the Hawaii Surfing Association in 1939, soon after his arrival in Honolulu. The [...]
Here are a few more photos from my dad’s collection showing the beach at Waikiki in 1951. The Moana Hotel and the Natatorium are about the only things that would look familiar to today’s visitors. The rest are part of Waikiki’s past. Just click on the photo to view this small gallery. If you have [...]
Back in August, I posted a series of photographs of a lifesaving demonstration at Makapuu, and a reception at the old Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki. The events seemed to revolved around several visitors, including this blond beauty. The visitors were escorted by Duke Kahanamoku, giving the event a certain pizzaz. The problem was that [...]
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Four canoes from the Waikiki Surf Club, including its legendary Koa racing canoe, Malia, escorted my father’s ashes out of Ala Wai Boat Harbor late yesterday afternoon as we scattered his ashes in the ocean that he loved. It was a very high honor bestowed on the club’s co-founder. In this photo, Wally Froiseth, co-founder [...]
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More stuff pulled from my dad’s boxes of “stuff”–bits and pieces from Aloha Week celebrations from 1949-1955, soon after the event was started by the “Oldtimers” of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. I’m not sure which year this Waikiki Surf Club float dates from. Is that Kalakaua Avenue? King Street? I’m not at all sure. [...]
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I found this fragment of a letter from the legendary paddler and surfer, Tom Zahn, among my dad’s papers. It’s the final page of a longer letter. I believe it was addressed to my dad, then president of the Waikiki Surf Club. Zahn mentions in the letter that he was 26 years old at the [...]
–>Click here for more photos from the Labor Day regatta, Kailua Beach, 1949. Labor Day, September 5, 1949. It was billed as the first annual Koolaupoko canoe and surfboard paddling regatta, held in Kailua under the sponsorship of the sponsored by the Koolaupoko Lions Club. The Waikiki Surf Club emerged as the winner, defeating Outrigger [...]
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