Tag Archives: Hawaii

Kaneohe scene (1949)

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Here’s another little greeting card by the late Marcel Cailliet, titled “Kaneohe” and dated in pencil 1949.

Unlike the original prints by Huc Luquiens featured here earlier this week, this is a reproduction of a full-size print done by Cailliet, which we are also fortunate to have a copy of.

From AskArt.com:

Born in Dijon, France on Sept. 11, 1914. After coming to the U.S. in 1917, Cailliet lived in New York. He studied at the PAFA before moving to Los Angeles in 1938. There he continued his studies at the Chouinard Art School and USC. In 1941 he was teaching at Arizona State College. He later lived in Hawaii until his death in Honolulu on Dec. 20, 2007. Member: Calif. Watercolor Society; Laguna Beach Art Ass’n. Exh: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939.

My mother recalls Cailliet in earlier years, when friends called him “Yippee”, as in yippee ki-yay.

1949 card

In any case, another nice print conveying the feeling of Hawaii in the early part of the last century.

Distinguished Service Award Dinner–Jan. 22, 1941

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Here’s another fabulous old photo and a test for the sleuthing skills of readers.

Dinner

According to the caption, it’s the First Distinguished Service Award Community Dinner, held January 22, 1941, at the Pacific Club in Honolulu. The award dinner was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Click on the photo for a greatly enlarged version.

I see my dad, John Lind. He’s seated at the far left, towards the back of the table on the left. He’s the fourth person seated along the table on the left, counting from the back of the room, facing the camera. At the time, he was 28 years old and had been in Hawaii several months short of two years.

Interesting that the group is not all white. Things were already changing in Hawaii, I guess.

The challenge is putting some other names to these many faces of Hawaii’s business community at the time. Are there some politicians also showing face at the dinner? Could be.

If you’re able to add a name to a face, please leave a comment below.

The missing video from this morning’s post

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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 video was taken with my iPhone. It was a spur of the moment move. I had asked about the photos, and then quickly realized that it would be worth capturing her descriptions. I wasn’t quick enough, and there are some technical glitches, but overall it’s great video from the phone.

Newspaper history: Saving the Star-Bulletin, 1999-2001

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I was prowling through some old computer files in search of a particular photo and ran across these two short videos of photos taken during the struggle a decade ago to rescue the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from closure.

Those involved with recognize friends and colleagues, some who have died in the intervening years, many others no longer in the business of news.

This first video includes some of the major events following the September 1999 announcement that the Star-Bulletin would be closed.

Then there was November 9, 2000. The day David Black announced that his deal to buy the Star-Bulletin and keep publishng had finally been completed. There was a press conference outside the federal courthouse, champagne in the newsroom, and a celebration at Murphy’s.

No audio accompanies this second set of photos.

How things have changed in the decade since these events unfolded!