I ran across this old photo today, and thought it would be worth sharing. It looks across the 18th fairway of the Waialae Golf Course in 1957. My mom took it from a vantage point along the Waialae Stream, before it was straightened and “channelized.”
The spread of residential developments up the ridges above Kahala was still in the future, and the banks of the stream are still natural, so the project to “channelize” the stream within concrete walls was still “coming soon.” It appears there were coconut trees being planted in the distance, and they would now be about 70 years old.
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What a stunning photo! The colors are vivid and details are sharp nearly 70 years later. It must have been carefully stored to have survived so well!.
What an incredible flash back for those of us one-time Kahala residents – the undeveloped ridges are stunning. As always, mahalo for sharing Ian…
It occurred to me that it might be fun to take a photo from approximately the same spot to highlight the changes since the original photo in the 1950s! Not that you don’t already have enough on your plate . . . .
I’ll put that on my list of things to do.