As promised, here’s a second photo showing a Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 over Waimanalo. The photo was taken somewhere around 1949, I believe.
It was among a batch of negatives found in an old brown envelope that was in one of the last boxes of by father’s papers and photographs to be sorted.
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Waimanalo: Another look back at Hawaii around 1949
Here’s another photo from the batch of recently discovered negatives that my dad had acquired at some point in his long life. The ones with dates go back to a period from 1947 to 1951.
At first, I didn’t recognize the airport. Then I realized that it’s Bellows Field in Waimanalo.
There’s a second, similar photo from a slightly different angle that I’ll try to post in the next day or so.
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This is another photo from the batch of negatives that I just found this past week among the last of my dad’s things that hadn’t been sorted before I stuffed them in boxes while cleaning out my parents’ house a couple of years ago.
It shows the coast and a beautiful windward valley.
The envelope the negative was in had a handwritten caption in pencil, “Heeia Kai,” accompanied by a large question mark.
I think the question mark was appropriate. My guess is that this might be Waikane Valley.
But I would like to hear from you folks. Waikane? Heeia? Elsewhere? What do you think?
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My file clearing this week turned up a birthday card signed by then-Honolulu Police Chief Dan Liu. The envelope is postmarked December 4, 1959 at 6 p.m. It was addressed to my father, “Reserve Ofcr. John Lind,” at our home address.
At the time, my dad was a reserve police officer who put on his uniform and gun to go on patrol once a week, and he was also active in the Keys & Whistles organization.
In the envelope, I also found a 3 x 5 index card with instructions for where he was to report in case of an emergency evacuation, although I can’t tell whether this was included with the original mailing of the card, or just stuck into the envelope later, which I consider more likely.
“Proceed to Ala Moana Shopping Center and take a traffic post at this point and assist in the evacuation of people gathered at this place….”
Was this intended for a civil defense evacuation or something more mundane like a tsunami warning? I’m wasn’t sure, then I deciphered the last handwritten line on the back of the small card, which appears to read, “Fallout reaches 25 mi.”
So, it seems, it was preparation for a nuclear attack.
There’s a bit more, as well as some of my dad’s handwritten notes on the back, apparently with further details, although they are hard to read.
Anyway, just another bit of local history.
