What happens when Christmas lands on Throwback Thursday?
You wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Then you dredge up a bunch of things from Christmas Past.
Oh, click on any of the photos and you’ll either get a slightly larger version of the photo, or a link to a collection, or perhaps a document.
History buffs may be most interested in the Carey Miller letter from December 1942, and the Waikiki Surf Club photos and party sign-up sheet from 1948.
Here goes.
1940
Photo used in a Christmas card sent by my parents, John and Helen Lind, in 1940. Walking Ms. Kiki on Kahala Beach.
1941
Carey D. Miller, excerpt from a Christmas letter dated December 1942, describing the events of the prior year’s holiday season, which was disrupted by the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
“Christmas comes and goes, dinner parties are called off and many work all day long. Each night we gather in our little blackout room and listen anxiously to the war news.”
1948
Waikiki Surf Club Christmas Party and 1st Annual Diamond Head Race, with competitors paddling from Waikiki to Diamond Head and back. If you want to see more photos from these events, click here. Or use this link to see the hand written sign-up sheet for the party. Lots of names from the history of Hawaii surfing can be found here.
1958
A family portrait. Christmas 1958.
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1971
Silent vigil against the Vietnam War, outside the entrance to the Schofield Jungle Training Area. Christmas Eve, 1971.
2004
Celebrating on Christmas Eve at my parents’ home in Kahala. Note my mother in the background, wearing her own santa hat, which she donned each year for quite a few years.
2007
Christmas Eve. It was to be the last time we celebrated Christmas with my sister, Bonnie, and both of my parents at their Kahala home.
2008
My dad was taken to Queen’s Hospital after a fall at home just before Thanksgiving in 2008, and later moved to the nursing home where he spent the last two years of his life. We tried to maintain some “normalcy” by celebrating Christmas Eve with my mother, despite his absence.
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At least you have the pictures to go back to – mine are thousands of mies away in boxes. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, Ian and Meda. 🙂
j.
I especially enjoyed reading the excerpt from Carey D. Miller’s letter describing what it was like to be living in Honolulu after the bombing of Pearl Harbor!