Do You Remember When...
November 24th, 2009 by Rodney LeePut on you memory caps...
With the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday holiday (it should be a national holiday), this entry will pull us through the long holiday weekend. Come back and post throughout the holiday weekend as more memories come to mind.
But before I start, I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
*and don't forget to take a moment to count your blessings
So finish the sentence. Repeats are okay. Posting only 1 memory per entry will help boost the number of comments, but who's counting. 
Do You Remember When...
- Service station attendants not only filled your gas tank, but they checked your oil and tire pressure and even wiped your windows.
- Behind the line of cheerleaders, there were songleaders - in their satin uniforms with white gloves and a carnation lei. With "streamers".
- There were only 3 main TV stations: channel 2, channel 4 and channel 9.
... you get the idea.
Tags: Black Friday, Black Friday holiday, carnation lei with streamers, channel 2, channel 4, channel 9, checked your oil, cheerleaders, count your blessings, memory caps, midlife crisis blog, Rodney Lee, service station attendants, song leaders, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving holiday, tire pressure, TV stations, When we were young, wiped your windows
November 24th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Yep, I remember the service stations....I worked at one and did all of the services you mentioned.
Do you remember walking home late in the evening from a school function and not worry about being mugged or kidnapped
I use to walk home from Castle with friends who lived in Kapunahala, from there I'd walk alone to Lilipuna Road. Never had any problems walking home at midnight.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
First? Yee Ha!
>> Rice was cooked on the stove, with a special rice pot with the special rim to prevent boil-overs, and the "timer" was yourself... lifting the lid when it bubbled and turning down the heat.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Drive In Restaurants had Carhops.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Drive In movie theaters.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Service stations had the rubber hose across the ground, to ring a bell to let attendants know you drove in.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I remember when there was Windy's located in Kaneohe where the Burger King now sits at the corner of Kamehameha Hwy and Likelike.
To that note. Remember when there were TWO bowling alleys on the Windward side? Windward Bowl and Tropicana (now Toyota)?
I know only 1 remember for 1 post, but I may forget, so as long as I'm remembering now...it's spilling out right now...
Remember..."the exchange goes round round round in a glass glass glass down your tum tum tum..."
November 24th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
@anklebiters - I went to Kapunahala when I was just a small little boy.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
The land under Ala Moana Shopping Center was undeveloped.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
There was no Magic Island.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Service station attendants also checked your battery.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
@sally - so nice of you to allow our guest to be first.
@Superman808 - I remember Tropicana bowl. That big flood in Kaneohe flooded out the bowling alley. btw, what school you went grad? And what year?
November 24th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
hahaha!
Supes... you were never just a small little boy!
k, On Topic:
>>TV commercials were a minute long? (or did it just seem that way?)
November 24th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
@Rod - Damien 1981
http://www.damien1981.com/senior_prom_page_1.asp
November 24th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
@sally ....well I contribute that to eating alot of poi
November 24th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Ho, Supes, your prom date must've been 5'10"!!!
Topic again ...sorry Rod
>>Foil on the rabbit ears gave better TV reception. Now their used to make caps for our heads so aliens cannot hear our thoughts.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
oy... "now THEY'RE use... "
ho da shame.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Good evening MLCers!
The H1 was from the Humane Society to Jodo Mission of Hawaii near Cartwright field.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Woo hoo, supes!
>>Only the rich uncle had color TV
November 24th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
All car tires had inner tubes.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
>>Only the rich, rich uncle had color TV with a remote control.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
You could buy "recapped" tires.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
>>you scrubbed whitewall tires with Ajax?
November 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
They was no Microwave.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Cragar rims!
http://static.summitracing.com/global/images/prod/large/crr-61015.jpg
November 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
No cell phones.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
No Internet.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
No automatic transmissions
November 24th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
King st., Beretania st. and Kalakua Ave was 2 way st.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Cars had vent windows
November 24th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Thanks Sally
Firestone Wide Ovals, Goodyear Polyglass GT, Goodyear GT radials. Penney's had their house brand too, don't remember what they had on their sidewalls.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Wakiki theater
November 24th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Kuhio theater
November 24th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Green river drink at Tropicana Bowl after school with shrimp chips.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Queen theater
November 24th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Princess theater
November 24th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Kress store
November 24th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Ben Franklin drug store
November 24th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Wigwam drug store
November 24th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Coco's coffee shop
November 24th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Lau's Drive Inn in Kahalu - my ex's family owned it plus the Hygienic Store as well as the Chevron station next to it.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Western Savings and Loan
November 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Keiki land at Ala Moana
November 24th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
#41 - scratch that one...only in AZ
MLC moment....
November 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
@Sally & Rod...that is the mother of my kids. She is 4 FOUR feet 10 inches and was standing on the photographer's lighting box.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Drive in soda was 10¢, 15¢, and 20¢ and came in those green and white striped cups.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
What was the name of that savings and loan where Nanko use to be in Kaneohe across from the old Shakeys
November 24th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Air raid drills in elementary school -when we had to go under our desks.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
8 Track tapes and player....one of the radio stations use to put out the top songs on 8 track.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
>>Tim Tindall promoting Golden Wheat dishes? Where he dropped it and the "wife" said "That's okay, they were free" (or something like that)
You gotta know that was bogus. Now in a tita's kitchen that scene would have played out different. "Ho, you broke da plate! You know how many Rinso's I had to go thru to get enough boxtops for dat plate?"
November 24th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Coral Gardens Motors with a Phillip 66 gas station in front.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Kaneohe Theater --> pool hall --> some kind of fast food.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
@Supes: you were married to Nitro? bhahaha!
sorry Rod.
>>vertical and horizontal controls on the TV where you had to control it when the TV started "rolling".
November 24th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
>>didn't have steam irons so we had to "sprinkle" the laundry and wrap them in a sheet before ironing them.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
>>when the TV stopped working, you took out the tubes, went to Wigwam and tested each tube in the tube tester, then bought the replacement tube.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Cartoons were on TV only early in the morning, after school on Checkers and Pogo or Captain Honolulu, and on Saturday mornings.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
The Volcano water fountain at the entrance to the airport.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Woolworth
November 24th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Desoto cars
November 24th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Edsel cars
November 24th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
>>when you grew vegetables in the garden and picked your own as needed? The green onions had to be examined for worms hiding inside.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
>>>when you played in the yard so hard you got so thirsty, but before drinking out of the garden hose you had to run the water for awhile to make sure the lizard inside got flushed out. And you drank the water anyway?
November 24th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
>>Darla thought the sun rose and set in Alfalfa's spike of hair on top of his head?
November 24th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Kaimuki Theater
November 24th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Kapahulu Theater
November 24th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
King Theater
November 24th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
King Sporting Goods
November 24th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Toyo Theater
November 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
BEEzy Bee theater
November 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
one more before nene...
>>when little girls thought their daddy was King of the World? (mine was!)
oyasumi everybody. Can't wait to check back in the morning to see what all else was remembered.
Good Night...
November 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Kau Kau Korner
November 24th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Honda Store in Kaneohe...
November 24th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Civic Auditorium - saw many a wrestling match there
November 24th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Pan American Airlines
November 24th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Matson had passenger ships
November 24th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
King Theater. M already got Queen and Princess.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
The windows and dishes rattling when a bomb exploded on Kaho'olawe.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Arakawa's
November 24th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Kilgo's
November 24th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Lippy Espinda's
November 24th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Sky slide
November 24th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Kaimuki theater
November 24th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Keiki Land
November 24th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Lucky Lager and Primo.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
@ankles-- Wrestling from the Civic!! Lord Tallyho Blears. Gentleman Jim Hade. Curtis the bull Iaukea. The Missing Link. Ed Francis.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Sugar and pineapple fields.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Liberty House.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Bus fare for elementary thru high school students was 10¢
November 24th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
The busses were electric powered trolleys
November 24th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Prince Hanalei at The Glades
November 24th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Bull Durham bags around the kitchen faucet.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Quarter school lunch.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Coke in 6.5 oz bottles. I just saw one that was dug up at a construction site.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Pepsi trying to gain market share with 7oz bottles.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
There was no Waikiki Shell.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Blaisdell Center was still the Ward estate.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Mamo Theater
November 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Tuna was canned at Kewalo Basin.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Mickey Mouse Club at the Palace Theater
November 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Kress Store
November 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Gas was less than 50 cents
November 24th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
My starting pay was 65 cents an hour back in 1972 as a dish washer / utility boy. First raise was 10 cents. Whoo Hoo!
November 24th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
National Dollar store on corner of Kalakaua and Kamehameha Ave. in Hilo. They had a basement and attic kinda spooky.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Lots of parades for....just because
November 24th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Downtown Hilo was the place to be during the holidays. All decorated and stuff.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Kilauea and Kinoole was two way streets.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
HIC Arena.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
The Matson terminal was not on Sand Island.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Hilo Main Police station was actually Downtown on Kalakaua St.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Islanders.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Kress Soda fountain made some mean hamburgers and shakes.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
TV was black and white. To make it color, we put cellophane in front. Blue on top, red in the middle and green on the bottom.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Record players before cassettes. Speeds of 78 45 and 33 rpm
November 24th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
"Broadcasting from high atop the Naniloa Surf Hotel...."
November 24th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
didn't have the internet
November 24th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
The children's discovery center was a trash incinerator.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
made your own toys.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
zzzzzz I remember that jingle
November 24th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Kakaako Waterfront Park was a trash dump.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
TV stations signing off every night.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Couldn't wear shorts or slippers to school unless you had a cut and doctors note. Plus had to tuck in your dress shirts. And this was a public school.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
All the shows one week after the mainland (even football).
November 24th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
We could actually scrounge for stuff at the dump. Car parts etc. Found some neat stuff
November 24th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
In Hilo, KPUA, KHLO and KIPA on the AM dial
November 24th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
@Ynaku, I remember about the slippers. Was OK to go barefoot, but no slippers.
The kids who wore shoes to school would hemo for recess.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Remember when you mom told you to go to bed. Now it's your wife?
G'night MLC.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Michael W. Perry on KKUA. And Kamasami Kong and Lou Richards.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
J. Akuhead Pupule.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Captain Honolulu.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
MLC, can you do the Captain Honolulu thing over your eyes?
November 24th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
You could swim at the Waikiki Natatorium.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Bob Sevey. He didn't misprounounce, "Natatorium."
November 24th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
The Poi boys
November 24th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
If you wore slippers, you had to wear socks.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
You had cafeteria duty.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
And after you finished cafeteria duty you would get ice cream before you had to go back to class.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
You helped clean the classroom after your last period class.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Misbehavior in class meant pulling weeds.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Grades were separated in A class, B class, etc.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Elementary school grades were E, S, and U. Greg Yamamoto was just talking to me about that today.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Midnight auto parts in Kapahulu - run out of a guys garage.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
The monkey bar at PCT (Pearl City Tavern).
November 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Booga Booga at Territorial Tavern.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Nuuanu Y dances.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Kaimuki gym dances.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Greenwood band.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
forgotten dynasty band. (spelled with lower case f and d)
November 24th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Pinky's Rose Garden band.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Sounds of Innocence band.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Johnny's Rock Society band.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
@anklebiters - Honolulu Federal Savings & Loan
AND the Aquarius Theatre that showed both "Deep Throat" & "Behind the Green Door" double feature.
@sally - Nitro is 4' 8" (shorter than my ex)
@Rod...what were you doing at the Glades?
More entries...
I remember Castle Park!
Rubber band guns using a clothes pin.
Red Rover Red Rover
Steal the Bacon
Shambattle
Dodgeball
"Cigar Cindy" at Gardenia Gardens Strip Club on Dillingham Boulevard
Latin Villa
November 24th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
White Light band.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
wrapping the tv antennae in aluminum foil and moving it around the living room so you could get rid of all the wavy lines on the tv screen!
November 24th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Natural High at Hula Hut
November 24th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Going to "Socials"
November 24th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
(that made me remember... )
watching american bandstand every saturday morning! after the cartoons, of course!
November 24th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
In other words, to eliminate the snow.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Club cards!
November 24th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
napueo - my auntie was a tuna packer at kewalo basin almost until the tuna canners closed down. i don't know how long it took me to figure out (when i was little) that being a tuna packer actually meant she packed tuna in the can!
November 24th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
No one said working the cannery...either Dole or Del Monte. I worked the graveyard shift 10pm-6am on the Ginaca machines in the Summer of '80
November 24th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
rodney - BAH!
*sniff, sniff*
November 24th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Milk was delivered to your house.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
@supes - Re: Glades, just cruising Hotel street.
What were you doing at Aquarius Theater.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
If you wore an undershirt, it wasn't associated to you being a wife beater.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Liberty House Hi-board
November 24th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
@ROD - watching Deep Throat & Behind the Green Door
November 24th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Corporal punishment in schools was allowed.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
superman808 - so funny that you mentioned socials! i was checking out your link to your damien pictures and remembered that my social club had a social with some damien boys while we were seniors. i thought the damien boys were juniors, so they would have been your classmates! unfortunately, i can only remember that my friend was dating a short japanese boy!
November 24th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
After the Carol Burnett show, it was time for sleep.
speaking of which... good night. (tugging on ear lobe)
November 24th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
hand written cards and letters... ahhh, so nice to receive!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 am
good night rodney!
good night john boy!
the waltons
November 25th, 2009 at 12:01 am
riding the bus! and being afraid to look over at glades when you rode through hotel street! hee hee...
November 25th, 2009 at 12:01 am
@NaPueo...Kapahulu Theatre with Japanese movies such as scary "Oiwa" and fantasy "Peacock Castle." Kapahulu Drugs next door, where they used to follow the customers around the store...I worked there for a short while.
Waikiki Natatorium...learned to swim there. They just made you jump in and you hung on to the slimy walls.
How about summer fun at Kapalono Park...making bowls out of coconut shell. I remember the guy who ran the park's candy/shave ice store used to smoke cigars so your shave ice smelled like a cigar...yuck!!!
Woolworth's waffles...what a treat!
Leonard's Bakery was one of the first to have fancy cake decorations...remember the poodles made out of frosting and one was always falling off the edge of the cake?
.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:03 am
walking around in fort street mall with my elementary school friends... without being afraid of being bothered by homeless people...
November 25th, 2009 at 12:04 am
seattle gail - and all the cakes used to have the poofy marshmallow frosting decorations!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:05 am
@snow "...short Japanese boy"....can you be a little more vague?
...anyway, a few years back..."Social Club Reunion" for the YMCA
http://www.ctrlaltdel-usa.net/private/071124_Social_Club_Reunion/index.htm
Here's a montage...see if you can find sally
http://www.ctrlaltdel-usa.net/superman/forum/yabb/attachments/071124_Social_Club_Reunion.jpg
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@snow: lol =))
I think the smell there was worse than the pineapple cannery.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Fort Street was not a Mall
November 25th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Howz about "Princess Knight"? This was my younger sister's favorite cartoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_8PJ4Wqjo
November 25th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Your Hit Parade on KIKU on Sunday nights with
Finger Five - Koi No Dairu 6700
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmicbFtt17E
Pink Lady - Pepper Keibu (Inspector Pepper)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ae6sBwPtuE
....same song, but in 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTDq1b4Mkfo
November 25th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Polo was played at Kapiolani Park.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Freight was not shipped in containers.
Time to say goodnight.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Romper room with Miss Robin? Anyone been on that kiddie show?
November 25th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Gibson's Discount Department Store in Mapunapuna
November 25th, 2009 at 5:30 am
evacuating Libby's cannery whenever had ammonia leak...not sure what the ammonia was fo.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Kelly's Drive Inn on Nimitz.
(Now a Harley Davidson Dealership)
November 25th, 2009 at 5:34 am
...metal bango tags
Payday, this lady with a cart full of paychecks went around issuing checks but you had to show your bango numbah.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Speaking of Drive Inns...
Remember when Like Like Drive Inn actually had spaces to park?
Now it's the worst. Sometimes I go to Walmart and shop then just walk across Keeaumoku St. Humbug.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am
...catching da bus home from Libby's smelling like pineapple.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Jolly Roger Restaurants
November 25th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Alfred's 76 gas station across from the Jolly Roger in Kahala.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:37 am
...I remember going to Kelly's after bowling next door.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Watching Bones Yamasaki at Waialae Bowl, Kahala Mall...he was smooooth. What ever happen to the plans to reopen Waialae Bowl?
November 25th, 2009 at 5:40 am
KC Drive Inn
November 25th, 2009 at 5:41 am
And of course, the Waffle Dog.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Soda and milk came in bottles?
November 25th, 2009 at 5:43 am
@KK, one of my first design jobs was the Like Like Drive In menu in the early 70's, was some kind of Hawaiian quilt on a dark brown cover. We went there often for saimin after cruizin' in town.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:44 am
The Old Termite Palace.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:45 am
yeah, waffle dog and peanut butter shake...remember flashing your headlights when you pau so car hops can get the tray.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:45 am
@hemajang - cool story!
Do you still have a copy of your work? That would be classic.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:47 am
...no kidding, been there at Islander games when termites were swarming...also next door was Chunky's on Isenberg, hangout for hot rodders in the 60's.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:52 am
@KK, not sure if I have that menu, it might be in a box somewhere hidden between my Beatles and Rascals albums.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Here is my KC Drive Inn story…
My wife and I got married at the Kahala (formerly Mandarin). The day before the wedding (4th of July) we took formal photographs just me and her around the hotel. After the session I wanted to eat at KC in my tux but the wife nixed that idea. She was afraid that I would spill the guava freeze all over my white jacket. I still remember seeing the fireworks from Waikiki while eating at one of the window booths. Man, those were the days.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Mr. Yoshioka was our milk man who delivered milk bottles to our back door...and playing milk covers.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I remember cruising up Kapahulu in the middle of the night and smelling the fresh loaves of bread from the Love’s bakery.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:00 am
@KK, wife and I got married at Pearl City Hongwanji and had our reception at the old hall next door. We had to set up the tables and chairs and decorate with coconut leaves on the walls and when pau, all the uncles and aunties help sweep and put away the chairs and tables...classic plantation days wedding.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:15 am
@hema. Sounds like it was a nice and simple ceremony.
I hope my kids would want to have one of those old school weddings.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Holy cow, 202 comments already!
Superman808, I think one of your classmates lives across the street from my parents in Kane`ohe: Bob M. He's like my dad's best friend (and the younger brother my dad never had).
Ankles: my very first bank account was at the HonFed you were talking about. I remember waiting in the car with my dad while my mom went into the bank. Remember when banks used to close at 3?
November 25th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Re all the Kress comments: my gramma used to work at the Kane`ohe Kress. I remember when the small strawberry Icee used to cost 16 cents (1 cent for tax). And when postage was 8 cents for a first class letter (I had pen pals in elementary school).
November 25th, 2009 at 6:17 am
I remember when the area where Windward Mall is was just a vacant lot (with a small cemetary inside).
November 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Good Morning!
@hemajang: I used to bowl w/ Bones Yamasaki.. and Tossy, Michi, Roy, Aka, ...the whole Waialae Bowl Gang! Fun Days!
@Seattle Gail and Snow: Leonard's Cakes! with the drunk poodle, yah I remember.
>>>Waialae Ave at Christmas time... every light pole had the big hanging bell and garland strung across the street. BCD Kaimuki has a pic of it inside the restaurant.
that memory makes me misty.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Quonset homes. Remember sleeping over friend's quonset house small kid time...thought was a nice house with curve walls. I think it was entrepreneur Frank Fasi who made money selling surplus quonset houses.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:45 am
>>>when Kahala Mall was Waialae Shopping Ctr and only had Star Market?
November 25th, 2009 at 6:52 am
@ sally, you bowled with Bones Yamasaki? wow, you must be good. The top bowlers those days were Bones, Ashley Hung, and Taro Miyasato. I still watch local bowling on channel 11, Hawaii TV Bowling with funny guy, Scott Mitamura.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:52 am
@King Katonk: I used to live in an apt behind Loves Bakery. Bread baking hours would be at 1am, just when we'd be coming home from bowling... was hard to sleep! Now I live in another apt behind the same area except now it's Safeway!
remember when three older brothers told me that the Natatorium had sharks and dead bodies at the bottom. Then came 4th grade swimming lessons, I pretended I was drowning (such a drama queen) and got sent back to San Souci. Hey, it got me out of the Natatorium.
Then came high school, cutting class to go swimming at... The Natatorium!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:00 am
@ hemajang... Scot and Glenn are friends of mine. I haven't bowled since 1987 so I only know the senior guys. Now I see all everybody's kids on TV. *oh, that was yesterday's blog*
'memba when nothing was automatic? Clothes were washed in a wringer washer and spinner with the rollers to squeeze the water out?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:05 am
>>>and pre-washing meant taking your clothes to the washboard and scrubbing it with a bar of Ivory Soap and a scrubber brush.
*it was a big event at our house when we got our first automatic washing machine. I was in the 3rd grade and thought it was a gift from heaven cuz I didn't have to step up on a stool to dig out laundry from the tub of soapy water anymore. My daddy and brother carried it in to the wash house and they had an audience.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:05 am
@sally
Ah, there’s nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread. I like the Kapahulu area. I had an uncle who used to live on Palani Ave. just facing the golf course.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:09 am
>>>when the whole neighborhood knew each other and every mother had the right to give you scoldings?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:16 am
consumer tire warehouse: "Go Now! why pay more...."
November 25th, 2009 at 7:19 am
...when you could leave the front door unlocked at night.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:19 am
@hemajang: got me thinking... were you an one of us alley rats at Waialae Bowl?
on topic:
>>> li hing mui in the 10 cents Yick Lung bag. When pau you would turn the bag inside out, stick you hand in it and lick da bag like a big ole li hing lollipop.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:21 am
...going to neighbors house in your pajamas to watch b&w tv on Saturday nights cuz nobody else had tv.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Good morning Rodney and MLCers!
Kaimuki Bowl
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Ccca Cola Bottle dispensing machines. Had hard time pulling out bottle!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Platform Shoes (da kine Elton John use to wear or does he still wears um!)
November 25th, 2009 at 7:28 am
@kk: I'm just a few blocks away from Palani Ave. Yup, good area. And I grew up just a few blocks in the other direction. Better area.
>>>those frilly lacey socks your mommy made you wear with those uncomfortable black patent leather shoes for special occasions? I didn't like the lace so I rolled the socks down and got scoldings every time.
These socks went with the frilly dresses that were useless items of clothing to me cuz you couldn't run around and play with a frilly willy dress on. You see Rod, I didn't stay still back then either.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:29 am
@sally, no but used to go bowl at many of the alleys on the island in high school...was a alley rat at Starlite Lanes in Ewa Beach. We had a pretty good junior traveling team and challenged teams from different alleys. Recall Bowl-O-Drome had a very good team at the time.
...japanese movies at Ewa social club outdoor theater under moonlight skies and kiawe trees on the grass lawn.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Wigwam! TaTara Tan Tan!
Lex Brodie... Thank You. Very Much.
Elvis... thankyewverymuch
November 25th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Tv broadcasts use to be one week delayed.....
November 25th, 2009 at 7:41 am
awww dangit... I used the S word.
oy
k-den, meanwhile, back at the ranch....
>>>singing Bonanza when playing in the back yard?
*you're singing it now, arent you?*
November 25th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Morning
stock car racing at the old stadium.....used to love it
NKHEA...... betta go now
November 25th, 2009 at 7:54 am
>>>those Japanese bamboo paper umbrellas? The ones covered in a waxy thing to make it waterproof?
I just bought one at a garage sale... unused... still wrapped... for a dollar.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:00 am
@Sally, #218: oooh, you makin' my mouth water. Oy.
When cars didn't have seat belts.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Gotta go work now... be back tonight to see what all other memories you folks posted!
Happy Turkey Eve!
...and Happy Birthday Eve to NKHEA!!!
Remember when >>> we could move faster?
November 25th, 2009 at 8:02 am
@KAN: are you getting that tingly thing going on in your cheeks? hahaha
Ok, fo' real kine... gatta gatta go now!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Dollar Chili plate @ Rainbow's Drive Inn
November 25th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Okay, I approved the comments that were in moderation.
FYI - Comments with more than one URL go into moderation (spam control)
Comments with certain words go into moderation, such as:
>> sh0es
>> casin0
But I'll be checking for comments held up...
November 25th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Your parents called you in from playing so you could listen to "Gunsmoke" on the radio ...
November 25th, 2009 at 9:02 am
The old pull tabs on soda cans? And the lei that we could make from the pull tabs? And the beer can hats?
November 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am
hemajang.. made me remembah quonset huts.. we lived in a quonset hut at Kaneohe MCAS early 50's..
did these befo', but..
Lippy Espinda selling used cars Saturday Movie time..
Satellite TV going down during rainstorm and da kine playing from the beginning each time..
plenny mo' flashbacks..
Listening to Da Doors on top Tantalus undah psychedelic influence (mos'ly haoles did dat).. also Kailua Beach.. ack-chul flashbacks..
November 25th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@hemajang - riding the bus smelling like pineapple AFTER you had a shower...dat wuz me!
@KAN - Damien classmate...the name escapes me....I have to look at my yearbook.
New memory... DRIVING down Hotel Street
nobody said PAN AM bags yet.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:52 am
hey uncle rod...here's a couple for you that I remember...Andy's Drive In with Cruise nite and slush floats and if you got lucky you could win the wooden nickles for a free slush float! when the Cabrals would put on a wonderful fireworks display on Kihapai Street at midnite on New Years Eve, RC drive in and their pidgeon community and lemon burgers, when there was Orson's in Kailua, and Taco Hut who made great enchiladas and the bowling alley in Kaneohe where Grandpa used to work, and when Dump Road had stacks of cars on each side of the road that used to look like at any moment they would come crashing down on you as you drove past...oh and my best one yet! Kailua carnival at the Kailua district field!!! and Kailua High School used to have a carnival / fair too!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am
wen you get gas, you order regulah or et'yl..
November 25th, 2009 at 10:17 am
holy cats! i see a 1000 post topic coming on!
i going make mention of BI shtuffs......since y'all get Oahu covered.
......Toma Bakery's
SweatSweet Bread. we used to see him sweating profusely whilst baking them.November 25th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Chun Hoon supermarket
November 25th, 2009 at 10:19 am
......Kalapana black sand beach and Harry K. Brown Park.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:21 am
.....Queen's Bath.
and no.....not Shauna's.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:22 am
.....Puna Tavern - damn bestest hamburgers EVAH!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:23 am
P&P superette
November 25th, 2009 at 10:23 am
.....Sampan buses.....and da driver Shake-Shake.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Jet raceway
November 25th, 2009 at 10:26 am
.....Poly Room and CJ's night clubs. and the college dances held at the Hilo Lagoon Hotel lanai.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Scotty's drive inn
November 25th, 2009 at 10:29 am
.....electric vibrating football game.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Chico's Pizza parlor
November 25th, 2009 at 10:31 am
.....Western Auto Store - bought all da Boy Scout stuffs from there. and my first brand new bicycle......and not no hand-me-down from my older brudders.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Slot cars
November 25th, 2009 at 10:34 am
.....Hilo Dry Goods - talk about your generic, uggaly clothes....but my mom always bought us stuff from there.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am
M - what! you like race! haha!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:36 am
The old police station in Pawaa was Sears before.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Mynah Bird drive inn
November 25th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Nickel machines at Riverside pool hall
November 25th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Cigarettes for .35 cents from the cigarette machine.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Demolition of the Waikiki Biltmore Hotel.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Demolition of Kaiser Hospital in Waikik
November 25th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Hawaii Kai was pig farms
November 25th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Back in the 50s, mailing a letter involved an address like this:
November 25th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Back in the 50s, mailing a letter involved an address like this:
Mr. John Doe
XXXX Campbell Ave.
Honolulu 15, T. H.
The "15" was the zone, which later became Zip code "96815"; the "T. H." was Territory of Hawaii.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 am
@ Mike Waipio, my fadda was postman back den and he use deliver mail by motorcycle w/side car attached..............
November 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Saddle City in Waimanalo
November 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Demolition Derby at the termite palace.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Turkey day triple header high school football at the termite palace.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:48 am
High school social clubs
November 25th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I remember when we could go clamming at Sand Island and Kaneohe Bay.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I remember when it was safe to fish and sleep overnight at Kahana Bay and watch the sun come up in the morning.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I remember when Waimea Falls was not a tourist attraction and we could go swimming there, in the natural pond under the Falls.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I remember when Hanauma Bay was not a tourist attraction and local people would often picnic there.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Paper straws, that you had to be careful of so that you don't sip too hard and get vapor lock, or that you don't bust a hole in it.
Dairyman's where my Mom and Dad met.
Going to the bus transit station across A'ala Park to buy tickets to catch the bus, and the bus had windows that opened for ventilation.
Go account for teens.
A.L. Kilgo's
Staying really late at Ala Moana Beach with our siblings, parents, aunts ,uncles, and cousins, and not getting chased out by the police.
Catching and cooking sand crabs. Same with pipipi.
Picking limu anywhere to make pickled ogo.
Walking along the sand at night, and finding those glow in the dark creatures the size of sand grains.
Click Photo booths
November 25th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
volleymom2 - I was on Romper Room and Checkers & Pogo.
Columbia Inn
Flamingo Chuck Wagon
Alex's (Alec's?) Drive In
Ted's Drive In for Korean food when at UH.
Coco's
(time to eat lunch)
Fashion Fabrics
Kuni Dry Goods
Fashions by Hino
Fabrics in Sears
Singer in Ala Moana where many elementary/middle school girls used to learn to sew.
Treadle sewing machines not hooked up to electricity
Darning a sock
Playing in the streams without concern of leptospirosis.
Catching crayfish, swordtails, guppies and taking them home.
Stringing Jobe's Tears necklaces.
Playing string figure games.
Honda Delicatessen on Liliha St, and looking forward to school excursions to have a reason to get something there.
Sash windows
Claw foot bathtubs, concrete floor showers
November 25th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Going to a party and knowing there will be Exchange orange drink concentrate, Orange Whip concentrate, 7-Up, and sherbet and made into a punch.
Riding in cars that had those vent windows that Rod mentioned, but also had metal at the top of the window where it met the gutter area.
Elastic cuffed jackets made with a white nylon and you could see the Hawaiian print through it.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
3/4 sleeve fluorescent shirts, 24" flannel drapes, oxford shoes and pomade hair with perfect wave.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
gudfunnit...in moderation, forgot about dat cuss word - sh$es.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
@TwoFish
“Elastic cuffed jackets made with a white nylon and you could see the Hawaiian print through it.”
Whoa...I remember having a couple of those jackets. My friends on the mainland thought they were pretty cool. Someone should bring them back. I would buy one just for old times sake.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
As for something they should never bring back…
Leisure Suits
November 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I miss Wisteria Restaurant on King St.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Tobias Angel Flights pants and matching jacket.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/mlc24701/public/GraduationPortrait.jpg
November 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Gabardine pants (I could never afford 'em, so never got 'em. I was so envious of all the cool girls @ Castle who had 'em!)
The Farrah flip.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
"Keds" black and white sneakers.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I remember camping at Hanauma Bay.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
And while we're at it...the original King's Hawaiian Bakery.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I remember hearing that president Kennedy was shot over the PA system at school and watching the news that night.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I remember seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show making their first appearance in the US.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
J Akuhead Papule and Spike Jones ruled the Hawai'i radio airways in the am slot and it took 15 mins to get in from the Leeward side.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Honolulu Federal Savings and Loan, even still get one 6" ruler from them.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hamburgers 5 for a $1.00 @ Andy's Drive-Inn
November 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Veteran's Day Parade and displays at Ala Moana Park, before had Ala Moana Shopping Center.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
All the traffic lights blinking "yellow" after 10:00 p.m.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Kupacha's Racing parts
November 25th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Fishing at Hanauma Bay with my dad, you could actually go fishing there.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Kailua High School having the first Male Cheerleader circa 1967.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
@ Anklebiters - I knew a Lau from that family, she grad in '68 and I remember having a social at Kailua Hongwagi and I asked her to dance about 3 times and then she started crying. Thought cause I was a mean looking guy or something till one of the girls told me she didn't know how to dance.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Slot car racing by the old police station on Kalakaua and Beratania Street, in a pink building.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@KAN - I remember the pastel colored hip hugger pants and shrink tops that girls used to wear. Oh, and wide leather belt.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Pin Boys at the bowling alley with above ground ball return.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Sandals with tire threads sole. I had a pair.
What's the really flat ones that girls wore? It had a little loop for the big toe.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Collar less jackets and Beatle boots.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
jap-slaps
November 25th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
The kind brown or black "criss-cross" slippers that our uncles wore - where the baby toe sticks out.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Surfboards with real stringer curving thru the board, Red wood/Balsa T-Band's, and redwood/balsa tailblocks.
Hobie, Inter-Island, Con, Hansen, Dewey Weber, Surfboards Hawaii, Tiki (surfboard makers).
November 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Ice Cream Man on the 3 wheel motorcycle.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Manapua Man with the pole and two square cans on each side.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Dad's puke green plymouth, my yellow rambler, Rod's cameleon Gia ( da color was changing depending on the angle you looked at it.)
November 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
When no one surfed with a leash, and boogie boards were made of plywood.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I'm guessing sally is in two pictures. One at the buffet table and the other one is holding the broomstick.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
When KPT was refurbished army barracks and not one big stupid building.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
When bats were made of wood and the ball was the same size and weight for everyone.
Tennis raquets were wood and balls were white.
When you had to have a crew cut or hair above the ears to play sports.
When the coach could kick your a$$ if you wised off and then your parents would kick your a$$ after finding out.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
paipo boards....
November 25th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
@RBB, I have a 9' 6" Dewey Weber surfboard.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
When you could drive around the island, all the way via Kaena Point.
And Salt Lake was really a lake.
And Kawainui Marsh was just called the Swamp.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
The Swamp on Kapiolani, and the Hoot in Kailua.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
@ M - Like sell um, what model do you have?
I have a Surfboards Hawaii with a 1K serial number, and it had no rocker in those days.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
This one is for Rod;
The small plane airport at Aikahi where you used to practice baseball.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Eh Rod, remember on Thanksgiving morning the smell of bread being toasted, and the pot of broth with celery and gibblets and the turkey neck. Home made stuffing and turkey in the oven for hours and getting hungrier by the hour.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Rod, remember on New Years Eve, the smell of rice vinegar, frying eggs, and the gourd being boiled and then making maki sushi by the hundred's to give out when we went to everyones house for mandoo in Nuuanu to roast pork in Waimanalo.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
M: I remember camping at Hanauma Bay, too. We slept in pup tents and washed the pots and pans with sand and salt water. Experienced my first sniper hunt there.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Battery powered airplane with the plastic holder that kinda looked like a flash light.
The nickel japanese kite with a samurai warrior on it and it had rounded arms and not diamond shape.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I remember that my brother used to spear fish at Hanauma and I remember delicious manini and other small reef fish fried crisp for dinner. (I am beginning to think that those really were the good old days.)
November 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I remember when Common mangoes were common and free and we'd eat them green and half ripe with a shoyu sugar mix.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
@ Two Fish - Nylon jacket with the aloha print and the matching surfer shorts to go with that, I think we all killed for that look.
Guys, remember always having a comb in the back pocket?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Superman808/KAN:
I knew it had a "Federal" in its name....my MIL was the manager there before she retired. I remember using the ATM there a lot as there was a "nickle machine" place just down the street.
We use to play tackle football in the rain/mud and basketball at Kapunahala elementary school.
zzzzz:
Billy White Wolf..Beauregard...it was great watching them on TV too.
Ynaku:
Was the minimum wage $1.60 in '72 ?
Rod's Big Bro:
She must have been a part of another branch of the Lau clan...no one that old
Rich Parr paipo board...remember paying $125 to have one custom made....had a lot of fun with that at Ala Mo.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Slot Cars! Used to go to Tom Thumb somewhere in the area across from Kahala Mall. My favorite was the orange track. Red was the big one and black had lots of turns. After we'd eat at Jolly Roger (where Zippy's is now)....cheezy gal w/ slush float.
@RBB also used to go to the one you mentioned near Kalakaua/ Young.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
No plastic bags at markets. All bags were paper and you could ask for boxes. Bag boys would use string to tie up the flaps to make the box higher (my first job)
November 25th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
- using slide rule in UH classes
- abacus
- Ron's Performance, I think that was the name of the shop, near Honolulu Comm. Coll. I had my headers installed there on my Camaro.
test
- Driver's License testing at the Kaneohe Police station - my dad use to administer them there until he moved to the station underneath the freeway in Kaimuki.
- Yogi's Feed in Kaneohe, next to Deluxe Bakery.
- Exploring on Coconut Island during a UH biology class, my friend's family lived on the island. Friends and I would fish off the pier, the Kaneohe PD would check on us periodically to see that we're ok.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
- $0.25 for a gallon of gas at the PX.....Phillip 66 where I worked was selling for $0.41/gal .
- $2.00 for a carton of cigarettes at the PX
- a dime for a milk nickle ice cream bar
- slot cars - there was one in Kaneohe, in between the Shell station and Tropicana Bowl. It was a nickle to run your dragster on the track.
Rod's Big Bro:
I had one of those plywood boogie boards...we covered it with resin so we wouldn't get splinters...
November 25th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
@ anklebiters - Still have one and use it to go "sand sliding" at Kailua Beach and I resined it also.
@ Visitor - I was a "bag boy" at the original Foodland in Kailua by Kailua Beach, next to Mr. Sullivan's house. That was a fun job, $1.25 per hour, then "produce clerk" $1.90 an hour didn't like that and went back to be "bag boy".
@ Ynaku - Remember starting @ Pearl Harbor as an apprentice at $2.50 per hour.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Roller Derby at the Civic Auditorium featuring "The Hawaiian Warriors". Remember "The Flyin' Hawaiian" Freddie Noa, Dave Pound and Liz Hernandez!
The Mister Softee ice cream trucks that would go through the neighborhoods playing music to attract attention. The drivers wore a white uniform and white hats.
Family oriented billiard centers like: Cue And Cushion, Holiday Cue and Diamond Cue.
Some people use to put metal taps on the bottoms of their shoes so that the soles would last longer. It also made a clicking sound when they walked on hard surfaces.
The locker room interviews on 50th State Wrestling were great, especially Handsome Johnny Barend's fairy tales
November 25th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
@ Visitor - I remember Tom Thumb. Never had money to buy a slot car, but used to tag along with friends. Jolly Roger had the SuzieQ, teri beef with cheese.
@midori mm - how about eating reef fish, especially menpachi on this island, without having to worry about ciguatera. Still kinda scary to eat them now days.
@Rod and RBB - I remember gathering soda bottles near a pavillion at Kailua Beach. They would give you money, maybe a penny for a bottle. The first recycling center.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
@C0hiba - what you was doing in our neck of the woods? Was that the old green pavilion or the newer concrete pavilion?
November 25th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
When life was simpler.......
November 25th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
When music had meaning Im at my computer listening to 70's and 80's music
November 25th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Chunky's drive inn
November 25th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Wisteria and KC drive inn waffle hot dogs, ono ono shakes and guava freezes
November 25th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
King Katonk & RBB - I did see a jacket like that at Goodwill in the last couple months or so in the kids section. If it looked like it fit me, I would have bought it. Didn't the snaps have mahimahi embossed on them or something?
Hawaiian Holiday Sportswear made a lot of "aloha print" shirts and I think they did the Primo Beer one too.
Martin Denny LP (vinyl!) with some scratchy sounds from the needle in the groove, and having to wash the records with soapy water, putting a screwdriver in the hole, and spinning them to dry.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
We were talking at work about how we used to play in the streams and catch opai lolo, no more now and the streams too dirty to play in. I took my nephew to Manoa stream recently and I told him I used to play in the stream.....he told me oh how gross!
November 25th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
The Point After, Steel Wings and The Wave
November 25th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Pakalolo being affordable.......
November 25th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Making "ninja stars" out of folder paper when folder paper was 8.5" x 11".
Making zig zag headbands out of gum wrappers.
Peeling the foil off the Wrigley gum wrappers to affix to the growing-in-size foil ball.
Asking Mom to make chinese pretzels (rosette iron and batter) and eating them fresh.
Boiling rice in a pot and accidentally browning the parts touching the pot. Removing the soft rice, and scraping the crispy parts out to put salt on and eat like a snack.
Bluing and starching white cotton sheets.
Clark Chang girls flat pseudo-patent slippers that were slippery to walk with.
Big hair with big bangs that girls would hairspray in place, so that when the wind blew, the whole molded section of hair would lift up.
Bobby pins to hold pin curls.
Wildroot hair dressing in the square bottle with pump.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
When kids had respect for the adults at school
November 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
when there was no such things as mammograms
November 25th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Steve: I remember Roller Derby at the Civic. Was there a Bobbie Mateer? Bert Wall? I don't know why those names came to mind.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I remember the Tom Moffat and Ron Jacob grudge roller derby match at the Civic.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Masako: I remember when we would catch cray fish in Kapalama Canal. We would wade in the water and didn't worry about the pollution.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
@ Masako #348, now that's a good one. Not just at school, everywhere else.
@Two Fish, I remember using the foil from gum, folding it up the long way almost to a pin and inserting one end into the mouth piece of the pay phone, touching the metal, then touching the other end of the foil on the metal of the pay phone. Clicking the clicker (don't know what you call dat) the number of times as the phone number you want to call. It really worked.
@Largo, think it was a summerfun field trip out of Kapalono Park. Believe it was the green pavillion.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Watching "The Three Stooges" and Popeye cartoons on the Captain Honolulu Show.
To Sally: Once you mentioned a Three Stooges short where the line "I knew you were coming so I baked a cake" was used. I think I found that episode. It was called "Corny Casanovas" and can be found at the following site: http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/134995/detail/ This episode features Shemp but I think they later did a similar short with Joe Besser who took Shemp's place after he died.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
@ Masako #346, for medicinal purposes only right?
@ Midori-mm, I remember catching talapia from Ala Wai Canal with my father and older brother. Brought it home, father cleaned it and soaked it in teriyaki sauce. Then dried it in a screen box. To this day, that's got the be the worst dried fish I've ever eaten. Think we gave it to the cats.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I remember a "Judy Arnold" playing for the home wahine Roller Derby team.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Cooking rice
1. Wash at least 3 times
2. Bring to boil
3. 18 Minutes on simmer then it's done, 19 minutes burnt, beeeeg trouble.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
@ midori-mm #351: There were Roller Derby skaters named Bert Wall and Bobbie Mateer. The website http://astroworf.tripod.com/arr.html has more information about Roller Derby.
Speaking of K-POI radio, Tom Moffatt and Ron Jacobs, do you remember a "Bowling Competition" between Tom Moffatt and Tom Rounds that was held at Pali Lanes and Waikiki Bowl? I was hoping to find the Month and the Year of this event. I am guessing it was in either 1960 or 1961. I would appreciate any information that you could share with me. Thanks.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
@RBB: Was it a Veterans Day Parade or Armed Forces Day Parade.
I remember the displays and the live fire demonstrations. They shot at targets set up on the reef. They'd never get away with that today.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Camping and fishing at Hanauma Bay!!! Ah what memories.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
@ ankles, was Judy Arnold the blonde? T-Birds or Thunderbirds?
@ Steve. uuuhhh.... I used to put taps on my shoes. lol
November 25th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Last traffic light on the way to Kailua was at Nuuanu and Judd.
Racing at Sandy Beach, Wilson Tunnel, Kunia and behind Byron's by the airport.
I'm surprised Sally or Superman808 never mentioned "Battle of the Bands".
November 25th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
@RBB, the Caliente's won the battle of the bands one year.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
@RBB: #302 Slot cars, pink building by police station. I remember that place now.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Hawaii Kai wasn't developed and the area by the fish pond was smelly.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
The Pali tunnels weren't dug.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
The Likelike Highway wasn't built.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
There was no H3.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
You needed a can opener to drink soda or beer from a can.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Before that you needed a bottle opener to drink soda or beer from a bottle.
No screw top caps.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
......original Coke (da soft drink)
......Lay's Green Onion potato chips
......and i say again.......HORLICKS!
November 25th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
soooo......how much you pay now?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
@ankles, #333: first my uncle, then my mom, worked on Coconut Island (mom just worked there during the summers). I got to go there a couple times as a kid - what a great place.
Yogi's feed store! I haven't thought of that in ages.
For my 13th birthday, my dad took me to a place called either Pounders or Grinders for burgers. It was past Hygienic Store in Kahalu`u. They had the best burgers. Mmmm, I'm getting ono for one thinking about it now.
I think I said this before, but when I stayed home sick (I loved school, so my folks knew I was really sick when I said I needed to stay home), my dad would buy me a shake from Tastee Treet.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
I don't remember this personally, but Leilani McCoy was the first (or one of the first) female DJs in Hawai`i. Tom Moffatt gave her her start.
I remember when Kamasami Kong was DA MAN on KKUA. My first boyfriend dedicated a song to me on his show, which I heard when I was going home from gramma's with my parents on a Friday night. I think that was a milestone for them - probably made them feel old.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
@opso, #371, thanks for the clarification.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
@Rod 314- yep...
@RBB #361...ooh...i remember that.
"Kabonkers" 2 glass balls tied to a string and you whack them so they move apart and form a circle. Like a pendulum doing a 180.
Water rockets!
Balsa Airplanes!
Angel Flights...and I had a pair of trousers & vest!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
@KAN - #372, it was GRINDERS where it had KONG Burgers
#373, I'm Kong's computer guy and friend, and former business partner
http://www.ctrlaltdel-usa.net/superman/forum/yabb/attachments/IMG_1432_Kong_Irwin_1.jpg
November 25th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
C0hiba -
hey.....did i wish you Happy Birfday? Happy BEElated Birfday!!
okay.....might as well wish NKHEA a Happy Birfday eve too!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
SM808 - "kabonkers"......i recall there was a myth about if you hit yourself on your arms too much with them.....you was gonna develop tumors/cancer or sumptin.
i think it was spread by parents who thought it was too yakamashi. heh
November 25th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
@opso: yeah, they were yakamashii! I had kabonkers, and so did my four cousins. When we were all at gramma's house, it got VERY LOUD.
I think we talked about this in another post (MLC moment - no can remembah) but I remember Cornet and Walrich used to be in the same complex as Times Supermarket. I used to get my HORLICKS tablets from Cornet - yum yum yum!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
@KAN/OPSO - I believe that was the first toy that ever got band from school in Hawaii.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Holy cats, SM808! You know everybody!
Where was City Mill in Kane`ohe before they moved to Kahuhipa Street? I remember Kane`ohe b/4 they created Kahuhipa St. and turned it into a semi-industrial area.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
@hamajang...I remember my friends and I working the Dole night shift, and all the morning commuters used to lean away from us. Once I looked down and there was a pineapple chunk stuck on top of my shoe. Ha, ha!
Remember the "chunkers" at the end of the packing line used to faint from the smell!! And the ugly caps the girls had to wear. We used to stare at the cute guys above us in the canning area. Plain bologna sandwiches in the cannery cafeteria.
@snow I got one of my first Leonard birthday cakes with the poofy puppy decorations and my brother, Fishhead dropped it upside down so I had pink and white blobs on my cake. Hah!
@CoHiba & RBB...yup, it was the Calientes; I think Electric Fish & the Tofu Factory came in 2nd?? Russ (Calientes) is now in The BeatBoys and Harvey (Tofu) in the King Pins. Still making great music after all those years!
@Rodney....woo hoo, Kaimuki gym dances...always packed!!!
Girls...remember those brown granny bags.
How about turning straws inside out with your teeth...and our parents said to stop it otherwise going get buck teeth.
How about catching the flying termites by turning off the lights and putting a bucket of water under the TV so the reflection of the light would catch the termites.
Making your own skateboard with skate wheels.
@Sally...rolling jabons down Castle Street...bwahahahahahaha!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Steve: Sorry, I don't remember the bowling match between Tom Moffat and Tom Rounds. Thanks for the roller derby link. It has been a long time since I've heard those familiar names.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Does anyone else remember making teru-teru bozu so it would be sunny the next day? I used to make mine with rolled-up kleenex so it ended up looking like a ghost.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
@KAN...I remember! Used to hang them on the tree outside!
Anyone remember frying marbles then putting them in cold a\water so they would make pretty shatters on the inside?
Marble talk.....bombuchas, pee wees, spam.....
November 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
KAN - dang.....i miss them Horlicks in the pill bottle.
teru-teru bozu? what dat?
Seattle Gail - y'know......i found out i can still turn the straw inside out. just a few months ago......NKHEA challenged me to see if i could still do it. and i did! and pretty fast too!
i guess i still have my "turning straw inside-out" skeelz! haha!
and i don't think i have buck teeth......yet. heh
November 25th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
@opso: I'm not sure where I learned about 'em (probably my gramma) but you'd make your teru-teru bozu and sing a little song "teru-teru bozu, teru bozu, ashita otenki ga ii." And your "shining-shining priest" would make sure the weather was good the next day.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Whew, Seattle Gail, I'm glad I'm not the only one who used to do that!
I'd often do the teru-teru bozu when dad was going to play golf the next day or when we'd go on field trips. For field trips, mom would freeze a can of juice for me, then wrap it in newspaper then foil. By lunch time, the juice was thawed but still cold.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Finally... I pau work!
@Seattle Gail: I was wondering when you were gon talk about jabons?
@Rod (#314) Where you got those pics? HI 74 played a big part in that event. You missed the soldier girl in the Village People.
>>>when telephone numbers were 5 digits? Then 6? Then finally the 7 digit numbers?
November 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Speaking of Pan Am bags... Rod, did you get my email?
>>>Three Flowers Brilliantine? And those gross pomade sticks to slick ya guys' hair? I had three big bros, and plus my daddy... the bathroom shelf was so gross and was my job to clean 'um.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
@TwoFish: RE: Chinese Pretzels... I still got my mom's original cast iron forms to make the pretzels. Never made any but I should try yah?
>>>India Imports used to sell those slippers we called "Elephants" (I dunno why). They had the ring to slip your big toe in and, at the end of the day, your foot would be all black from the leather... or whatever the heck that thing was made of.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
KAN - whoa! no candles, hooded robes or sacrifices were involved? haha!
......kamaboko slippahs
November 25th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
HAPPY early BIRTHDAY NKHEA
C0hiba:
She was a blonde....don't remember the teamname.
Rod's big bro:
I use to haul *ss on Kahekili Hwy just after Heeia Rd heading towards the Valley of the Temple, where there was a big drop in the road before heading back up hill...see triple digits easy
KAN:
Their last name is Nakamoto...do you remember them
November 25th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
C0hiba - #353 - "tapping" - when you "tapped" the numbers of the phone number on the pay phone.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
@sally - yes, I got your email re: Pan Am bags. That's too good for a give-away. Keep um'. NKHEA said he get one too.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Heeia Pier with its glass bottom boat.....they still have that
November 25th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
@KAN - Try to know as many peeps as possible-
/ #382 - City Mill was located on Kam Hwy (next to J&J Sheet Metal)
November 25th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
>>>the horse stables at Kapiolani Park? Was so stinkie when we drove past.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
>>>the Big Pineapple at Dole Cannery on Nimitz Hwy? Was so stinkie when we drove past.
*Plenny stinkie memories.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
The boat house and boat rides on the Ala Wai canal. Always wanted to go on that, but never did.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Glass bottom boat at Kewalo basin.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
@Rod: the Kaiser boats? with the pink canopies? My oldest brother fell in the water when they went in that boat. I wasn't born yet.
>>>bus fare tokens? I have one. I also have a set of bus fare tickets. Was what I had left after they stopped using them. Was 10 cents each and you bought a strip for $1, just like carnival scrips.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Speaking of carnival scrips, 'memba when they were $1 for a strip of 10? And $5 could get you Big Fun all night at the 50th State Fair? (I never did ride that Mad Mouse)
November 25th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
>>Leonard's Malasadas were 10cents each or $1 for a dozen?
*$1 could buy plenny back then yah?
November 25th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Keo Nakama swam the Ka Iwi Channel. (Molokai Channel)
November 25th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
teru-teru bozu:
http://midlifecrisis.honadvblogs.com/files/2009/11/Teru-teru-bozu.jpg
November 25th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
EK Fernandez carnivals had bigger prizes than Wally Yee.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
@Steve - #336, like C0hiba, my dad had taps put on to the heels of my shoes. Before then, had to use thumbtacks. LOL
November 25th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Their rides were also newer and better maintained.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Taco flavored Doritos
November 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Palo-Wai, next to the feed store where Palolo McDonalds is now located. Buy 4 hamburgers and get one free. W&M plain bbq burger w/ everything 25 cents at 9th and Waialae (now Town).
Tanoue's Saimin...between 10th and Sierra Dr...there's a Vietnamese restaurant there now. Pottery Restaurant on Waialae.
Played top, yoyo and marbles at school. Used to take out the point of the top and insert a nail. Used it to "doz" another person's top. And Duncan yoyos...tournament, butterfly and imperial.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I never heard of teru teru bozu... only waru bozu.
@Rod: When I was little my daddy took me downtown where he had to go cut hair. He parked somewhere and I was in the car, window down, and I hear that familiar tap tap tap except when the man walked past the car he wasn't wearing shoes. He was wearing rubbah slippas! And wasn't no thumbtacks either! bhahaha!
*Horlicks. Yummmm!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
>>>remember wearing kanzashi? Those cute Japanese hair ornaments to BonDance?
November 25th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
@sally - you never heard of teru teru bozu?!? Oi. What kine townie you?
How about: he no he no mo he ji?
I'm sure KAN knows that one.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
@sally - next summer, we gotta go bon dance. Get the band members together
November 25th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
NaPueo #406 - "Nakama" was my PE teacher.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
@vistor - the Pottery. Good one! That's the place where you got to keep the pot when you ordered certain dishes, right? I've never been there, but I know someone in the family went - and brought home a pot.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Magic Island wasn't there yet. It was a surf spot named "garbage hole". Only saw a picture of that break.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
The Dog House on Kapahulu - across from Leonard's (makai side).
November 25th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
@Rod: he no what? What dat?
Yes Yes!!! BonDance! Whoo! Cannot wait for summer now. How many more months?
>>>remember HRT, the green bus? and you pull the rope when your stop is coming up?
November 25th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
@Sally - I saw an early entry by you on the Christmas decorations on Waialae Ave. Those were the best. The lighted foiled decorations hung across the road with the red bells on each end. Nostalgic reminder of good old days.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Some of us did a small bon dance circuit this past season. I don't dance, but like the bbq sticks, andagi, saimin and other bon dance food. Somehow taste extra good in that atmosphere with the sights and sounds.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
@visitor: weren't those the best?! I wish they still would do it.
>>>remember chawan haircut?
November 25th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
chawan haircut? Like the Jack in the box commercial?
Oh yeah, you no more TV. Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWEhDkpGrw
November 25th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
BHAHAHAHAHA! That was good!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
@ Sally - I tried telling Rod about the christmas decorations except they started from River street and ran along King St. all the way to the end of Waialae.
@ Seattle Gail - I was thinking about the marbles, we used to fry them and drop them into ice water.
@ Na Pueo - You may be right, it could have been Armed Forces Day, and I remember getting to shoot the machine guns.
@SM808 - Remember the "Undertakers"? Saw them in a battle of the bands.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Does anyone remember a band called "Sky" or "Skye" from back in the olden days?
November 25th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hi Rod and MLCers,
cracker balls, shoo shoo babies, cherry bomb.
use to play with tops, sling shot, paper triangle football, blow dart pipe, sky inning, rotten mango fight, waru-bozu.
HAPPY TURKEY DAY EVERYBODY!!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
They stole our club name.
>>when all the "garage bands" played Louie Louie and Double Shot.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
fishhead: You threw a rotten mango at my friend (your neighbor)! naughty!
>>>setting up all the little green army men very meticulously to bomb them with firecrackers.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
No forget to wish NKHEA a Happy Birthday. How da heck da guy get to be born on Thanksgiving?
November 25th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Happy Birthday, NKHEA!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@fishhead - ... and you when drop your sister Gail's birthday cake upside down (#383). Oi.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
I did already but always can wish some more...
Happy Birthday NKHEA! Going have lots of parties for you!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
@visitor: #417 mine too!!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
November 25th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
@visitor #412: Remember when Tanoue's before the building? Concrete slab, hollow tile walls, chain link type gates at two ends, and corrugated iron roof.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
No one hour film processing. It took at least a week to get photos back.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
>>>when it was Sugar Frosted Flakes and Sugar Pops ("Sugar Pops are tops!") ???
November 25th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
And Sugar Smacks. Sugar Pops were my fave.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
McWayne Marine Supplies at Kewalo Basin
November 25th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
GEM - Kapalama, Ward, and Waipahu
November 25th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
>>>Eddie Brigatti, Dino Dinelli, Felix Cavaliere, Gene Cornish
November 25th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@NaPueo: or when it was even film processing?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
#444 - The Rascals (had to look 'um up).
off topic: was talking with Greg Yamamoto the other day trying to remember. Did Elton John's band have a name? Like Rod Stewart and Faces.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Kodak Instamatic camera with the cube flashes. One cube had 4 flashes - one on each side. Used to play with the used flash cubes. Wonder if had mercury in those things...
November 25th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Paper Shot - those little red rolls with bumps on them to put in your paper shot gun. We used to take a whole roll, lay it on the ground and whack it with the fat end of a baseball bat. Makes one loud pop. Da kine ringing in the ears.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
>>>Frank DeLima was our entertainment at our 10th Class Reunion and he said "Remember that bunch of Japanese girls with the long hair and false eyelashes talking like mynah birds on the classroom steps?"
The football boyz on the table next to us all turned around to our table and said "Dea Dem!"
We all had long hair down past our waists and center part.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
>>>and no blow dryer!
okay, nene time. See y'all tomorrow morning. Gobble Gobble.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:15 am
@rodney - mcwayne marine supply! i was always nearby since my dad worked right next door at C&E radio - he used to repair boat radios! we used to have fresh ahi and aku all the time (so often, in fact, that we grew tired of it!)!
@twofish & KK - kona jackets! sheer white outer with aloha print inside... i think i had several of them while growing up. i saw them at sear's... maybe last year? i didn't realize they still made them.
@seattlegail & sally - jabons???? ha ha ha... i think fishhead is not the only warubozu around here!
@KAN - my mom used to sing the teru teru bozu song all the time! she taught me how to make a teru teru bozu when i was little, out of kleenex - now i see them all the time at bon dances (uhh, not the kleenex kine!)! (sally - they hang them by the yagura... you sure you didn't see them before?)
November 26th, 2009 at 12:17 am
stubbies (remember those short cordoroy men's shorts? w00t!)
buffalo sandles (popular during - maybe - the 20's then resurrected again in the 70's)
gelly shoes
November 26th, 2009 at 12:19 am
darnit... said the st00pid sh0es word!
opso - i loved horlick's! if i found the original kine, i'd still buy them! the new ones aren't the same!
happy birthday NKHEA! have a good one!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:20 am
the aloha print luggage that everyone had when traveling to/from neighbor islands! i remember buying mine at gem's!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:22 am
rodney & visitor - the pottery was one of my family's favorite restaurants! we often ALL ordered the clay pot chicken - and ended up with several clay pots to take home! i still have a small rose vase from there!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Kabe shirts. Still hoping to find a stash at a garage or rummage sale. The kine with the textured material and Japanese print - pagodas, koi, cherry blossoms, scenery, etc.
Girls used to take them from their father's closets and wear them to the beach - tying a knot in the front.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:25 am
@snow - Wait, the pottery didn't give away small rose vases. Ahanakukulele.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am
sally - i think i still may have my old hair ornaments from bon dances long past! i have fond memories of dressing up in my kimono, with the help of my dad, who used to tie the tightest "i-no-can-breath!" obi, and going to the neighborhood bon dance.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am
rodney - hey! i bought my vase from the pottery!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:32 am
rodney - you reminded me of the "pocket camera" - the one that used the - was it - 110 film? that skinny cartridge of film. the shape of the picture also changed from square to retangular then, too.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:41 am
Polaroid instant film!!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Kodak too!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:54 am
i remember mrs. tengan at Japanese school when I was in the 4th grade.
nihongo ga sukoshi dekimasu...
November 26th, 2009 at 3:02 am
Brownie camera with the single flash bulb
November 26th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Polaroid camera where you had to swab the picture with a chemical to preserve it.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Slides instead of photos.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:09 am
8mm movie film....remember taking surfing video off of Magic Island of us for a class project.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Chili and rice at the concession stand at Ala Mo.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Putting bookcovers on school text books.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Still get my orange Princeton University bookcover on my hs junior year '64 yearbook, all tattered after 45 years...used to make our own bookcovers from brown paper or wrapping paper in elementary school.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Good Thanksgiving Morning!
Happy Birhday NKHEA!
@snow: teru-teru bozu had a song? okay, someone needs to sing it to me on Sat. I can't recall seeing it hanging around the yagura, too busy concentrating on the dancing. Gotta look the next we go...MLC BonDance Excursion.
@Rod: Kabe shirt? I donno that either. Got pic? But I did have one of those Hawaiian print underneath the nylon jackets. Lost it when I went on a church camp and that was that. : (
anklez: somebody had fuuun till the wee hours eh?
November 26th, 2009 at 6:36 am
...besides battle of bands, kpoi had Blastoff in 1965 with da Beard as mc, still get program with rocket blasting off, bands were Linda Green & the Tempos, Fabulous Spirits, Speidels, Dimensions, and others. The 50 cent program had ads from Horner's Music Supply, Music Corner, Jolly Roger Drive-In w/specials on French Fries-10 cents and Teriyaki Plate-69 cents and movies from Kam Hi-Way Drive in featuring "Return to Peyton Place" and Waikiki Theatre's "Strange Bedfellows."
I forget who won the band competition but grand prize was $1,500 cash.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:36 am
>>>Oversized creatures movies. Them. The Spider. Rabbits. Frog. Mysterious Island. Loved those movies along with the original The Blob. War of the Worlds.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:40 am
>>>yes yes bookcovers were made with Star Supermarket paper grocery bags. We would graffiti our own designs on it and friends would write on it too.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:40 am
...going to carnivals to watch live local bands, Speidels were so good at Wahiawa carnival-they played mostly Ventures instrumentals, Spirits at Ewa carnival, and Undertakers at a town carnival-forget, maybe McKinley.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:41 am
>>>mustard colored pee chee (?) portfolios. Who didn't draw underarm hair on the basketball player?
November 26th, 2009 at 7:12 am
>>>when Jake Shimabukuro was that cute kid that cried at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards? ...and now he's gonna play with Bette Midler for Queen Elizabeth II ???? How awesome iz dat?
November 26th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Bette Midler went Aiea, I think...heard she had rough time in high school.
...remember "kill haole day" in high school? Of course, I was kinda nerdy so had nothing to do with dat stuff but our high school had a lot of military kids and there were "conflicts."
Remember cutting out and going to another high school. The one and only time I cut out and went to Aiea HS but football boys patrolling campus chased us out...thought they were going to give us lickens.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday NKHEA!
How about dolphin shorts & the Crater Festivals.
@Rod - nice graduation pic! The guys all had long hair back when we graduated.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:04 am
>>>nicknames in high school? esp if you're a product of the 60's. Jughead. Bag. Limu. Then the 70's was usually by last name... Tada, Naks, Mats, Nishi, Oki. Girls were all named Karen, Ann or Linda. ha!
Rod: even in the midst of food prep we're trying to pad the numbers here.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:06 am
>>> dissecting frogs, earthworms, fish, and crayfish? The frog was cool, the crayfish was stink, made me sick, I got sent home from school. That was my story and I'm sticking to it.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:08 am
puka shell necklaces & picking paper shells @Kailua Beach.
We used to 'tap' the payphones, too. It worked!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:17 am
The Fabulous Krush at the Garden Bar. Fed the boyz every Wed night.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am
New Experience ... before they became The Fabulous Krush.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Good morning MLCers!
I'm still wearing my puke shell necklace that I made in the 70's....
Oceania Floating Restaurant
November 26th, 2009 at 9:20 am
>>>the kids were small and listened to you.
k- gotta go hang laundry.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Territorial Tavern with Booga Booga
November 26th, 2009 at 9:24 am
hema: Bette Midler went Radford.
I'd forgotten about old film cameras, and I made the switch to digital only 3 years ago! I had an old, old Kodak back when I was 10. I had a 110 for many years. I found some old, washed out photos taken when I was around 12 earlier this week. I have three friends in particular from intermediate school time, and I'm going to give them a reprint of a photo taken of all of us from when we were in high school after one of them was in a fashion show.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:24 am
"What's your line" TV show
November 26th, 2009 at 9:44 am
@M, #487: Beamer Brothers at Territorial Tavern.
Frank DeLima @ the Noodle Shop.
Hui Ohana at Oceania.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Liz Damon and the Orient Express.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Don Ho @ Honey's in Kane`ohe.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:47 am
KAN:
Liz's 1900 Yesterday......still love this song.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVd0yTDNThc
November 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Sally:
I couldn't get to sleep....watched Transformers and Escape From Witch Mnt...still couldn't get to sleep. Called SM and GF to see if they were up...
November 26th, 2009 at 10:16 am
KAN: Now you got me singing Me Japanese Boy I Love You while doing laundry. Paula and I couldn't find it on karaoke so we just sang it anyways. Dang, I wish I coulda met you IRL.
Next time.
>>>putting on makeup without mom's permission and having to rub it off before you got home from school. Covergirl Cornflower Blue eyeshadow did not come off easily. Good thing the Frosted Pink lipstick did though.
oy
November 26th, 2009 at 10:17 am
@anklez: you got jet lag? Gonna be worse after turkey tonight. Get plenny rest before Sat!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I remember when students worked in the cafeteria. Once, when we were in high school, we finished cleaning up early and were allowed to leave school. My friends thought it would be fun to walk around McKinley High. So, wearing jeans and boro-boro shirts and rubbah slippas we went. We were walking down the hallways and looking in the classrooms to see who we knew and the fire alarm went off. We got scared and thought of hiding in one of the rooms but decided that we had to leave the building like everyone else. We went out to the front yard and tried to look inconspicuous, making ourselves small and hiding behind the statue in the front of the school. People looked at us, but luckily, nobody approached us. As soon as the all clear bell went on, we hightailed it off campus. It didn't seem like so much fun any more.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I love Liz Damon's 1900 Yesterday, too. I saw her performance live but I can't remember where. I know it was in Waikiki.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Happy Thanksgiving Rod and Paula and everyone else! Happy Birthday NKHEA!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:26 am
It's
November 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am
midori-mm: it was at The Garden Bar (no longer there) in the Hilton Hawn Village. Same place that Carole Kai and then, in the 70's, The Fabulous Krush.
>>>sitting on the sand outside the Garden Bar to watch Carole Kai cuz we were still underaged and not old enough to drink.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:32 am
>>>when my mommy used to cook the Thanksgiving meal and we could be outside playing all day to stay out of her way.
ROD!!! Half way there to 1000 !!!
Go Go Go Go Go!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:25 am
@midori-mm #498 it was the 50 year Birthday for Hawaii '72. It was held at the Hula Hut and this was the night that I made my debut as Doorman.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Happy gooble day
Thanks for the birthday wishes
NKHEA.....time for beea and poke.....oh, and some turkey
November 26th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Happy Thanksgiving MCLers!
Thanks so much for making MLC a nice gathering place to relive our youth. Without you folks, MLC would be just a boring blog. You folks make it happen and for that I am forever grateful.
Rod
November 26th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Thank YOU, Rod, for giving us a place to come to, make friends, talk story, and keep our remembry going.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Happy Turkey Day!!!
You guys awakening the memory cells!
@ Sally - Pee Chee portfolios and drawing the underarm hair...ha! We all did that. We'd also erase the eyes and draw in our own weird ones.
And we'd sit outside the Hilton to listen too. Later got brave and made fake id's.
@Rod - McWayne Marine Supply...remember the lunch wagons? They had the best lunches on paper plates and wrapped with wax paper...mac salad was a winner! Take your lunch and sit on the pilings and throw rice for the tilapias.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Hey Supes: I remember meeting you that night at Hula Hut. I was running in, late cuz I was coming from my own class reunion. I had to meet up w/ Suzi dem cuz we had to get "dressed" for our Hunks/Hunkettes performance. I was Roy Yonashiro's partner. I ran in and you stopped me, asking for my "hand stamp" and I was trying to tell you I belonged there, I was just late.
I kept thinking "who dis?!?" and getting kinda irraz but well, you're a little bigger than me. Then a certain "D" saw me and said I was ok. whew!
The rest is history!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
@sally/KAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKZDw4JQW7k
*wanna download the song? Go to Zamzar.com, click on URL, paste in the above URL, specify MP3, enter your email address and it'll be emailed to you. No need even sign up!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Rod: we going get to 1000 yet!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Sally and Supes: Thanks. It seems so long ago...my memory cells are about all gone...but I remember that I had a chi-chi (the drink, the drink) while watching her performance.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Memories of Thanksgivings past: mom and I would go to Grandma's early to help with the cooking and cleaning. Aunty would roast an enormous turkey in Grandma's ancient (and heavy) covered roasting pan. Basting that sucker was quite the feat. I didn't understand/try the cranberries with turkey until I moved to Seattle, but a can of the stuff was always on the table. The rest of the family would start arriving around 5:30, and the table would pile up with all kinds of delicacies in addition to the turkey, stuffing, and rice: sashimi, gramma's nishime, sushi, jello dessert, pumpkin and custard pies, toss salad, potato salad, namasu, etc. Mmmmmm.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
@sally #508 - I had to keep out the riff raff. Lucky 4u somebody had pull
As for "D" is that the one that shall go nameless?
November 26th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I remember when Roosevelt had a carnival. Masako and Shauna, are you too young to remember?
November 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
The State Farm Fair on McKinley HS grounds. And McKinley still had a fair with students running the booths, and a contest for Miss McKinley and court.
Riding the bus, when #2 was either School St or Liliha/Puunui. Now Liliha/Puunui is #13.
When bus rides were quiet because it didn't have a GPS that stated the stop.
Lanakila Crafts annual craft fair (happening around now). I got zabuton, quilts, and Hawaiian-style Christmas decorations. Mom used to buy double crusted pies from them too, and then walk home with our goodies, cutting through the Convalescent Center property sometimes.
Drinking Ovaltine that came out of a glass jar and metal lid. Crunching on the Ovaltine bits that didn't dissolve well.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
NKHEA - Happy Birthday!
November 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Oh yeah, cleaning up yesterday, I found some things I forgot about: View-Master and the Grand Canyon Arizona, Victoria Butchart Gardens, Disney, etc.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Snow - #452 - they were Jellies.
Bobby McGees bathtub souvenir.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Waikiki I & II Theatres
Waikiki III Theatre
Live organ player
Varsity Theatre
November 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
The Garden House with the orange awnings, across from the closed Quinteros Mexican Restaurant in Makiki.
Chico's in Kailua
Detroit Deli in Kailua
Masu's Massive Plate Lunch
McCully Chop Suey
It's Chili in Hawaii
La Mancha
November 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Burger Land on Kapahulu.
Radio Free Hawaii
Slam books
Garden spiders that form an "X" on their web, crab spiders, green anoles.
Making bean bags out of scrap fabric and seeds or rice to fill it.
Garments made out of gabardine
Watching/helping Dad melt down lead to make fishing weights!
November 26th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@hemajang #472: "Blast Off" was held at the Waikiki Shell in March of 1965. The winner of the contest was "Linda Green And The Tempos"; 2nd Place was "Buzzy And The Frolics Five"; 3rd Place was "The Impacts"; and 4th Place was "The Spirits".
I remember a "Battle Of The Bands" that was held at the Blaisdell Arena (known as the HIC back then) in early 1972. The winner was an all girl band named "Rock Candy" that featured Nohelani Cypriano and photographer Mary Ann Changg. 2nd Place was "Johnny's Rock Society" and 3rd Place was a group called "Warning". If I am not mistaken, Roy Yonashiro (later of Natural High) was the lead singer in "Warning".
November 26th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
@Steve, good memory on "Blastoff"...Linda Green was such a babe, all the guys went ga ga over her, looking at the program they had a drummer named Ronald Lee, although the group is listed as from Kaimuki, I thought he was from Kamehameha and use to bowl with him. Memory is vague but many of the groups were also part of the Battle of the Bands.
I don't remember the 1972 Battle of the Bands and never heard of "Rock Candy" but in the early 80's I did the graphics on a Nohelani Cypriano album...worked with her and her mom, both very nice people.
@TwoFish, missed Radio Free Hawaii when it went off the air. Norm Winter was an original. Thoroughly enjoyed the eclectic mix of grunge, ska, classical and Hawaiian. Now I only listen to NPR and KTUH.
...may be a bit off, but anyone recall in the 50's or early 60's when the night skies went aglow from some kind of nuclear testing in the Pacific? I dunno, it may be hallucinating or some kind of disjointed memory.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
...anyone remember Ralph Barbieri? He was a sports jock, kinda east coast outrageous sports radio host.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
hemajang: #523 No, you're not hallucinating. It did happen. I didn't see the glow myself but I remember reading about it.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I remember the Paint Brush rivalry between Roosevelt and Punahou.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Shari's - Home of the Dollar Plate Lunch.
Used to grind 2 of 'em.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Nestle's Quik
November 26th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
3/4 sleeve aloha shirts. White with the printed band just above the bottom.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Apple Black Friday ads are up!
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/holiday/giftguide/black_friday
November 26th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I remember the Primo shirts that almost every guy had and wore. I see them still on sale but I hardly see anyone wearing them any more.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
I remember the Queen's Surf and Frank Fasi bitter feud with its owner which resulted in the demolishing of the Queen's Surf.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Carrying Pan Am bag in school for your books.
*Shauna & Lance's age - Servco vinyl duffle bags for sports.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I'm so happy I didn't overeat tonight! No tri-turkey-poison!
@hemajang and midori-mm: I do remember that "glow" in the sky. I was young, I remember everyone going outside to look at the sky, but I don't remember where I was or when it happened so I always wondered if I had dreamed it or what.
>>>the days when girls actually waited for guys to ask them to dance. Now, we just go up... no wait for nobody. I usually go visiting on the dance floor. (Rod can attest to that one)
November 26th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
>>>when guys used to ask to dance by (I know you can picture this one) rolling their hands under their shirt and make big body, nod their head and say "eh... like dance?"
*did you guys ever really think that turned us on?
November 26th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
"Glow in the sky"
http://midlifecrisis.honadvblogs.com/files/2009/11/Events-13.jpg
November 26th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
>>>when guys nicely ask a girl to dance and she says "no tanks, I resting".
November 26th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
The Point After disco. We used to call it the meat market.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Spats at the Hyatt
November 26th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Paradise Park
Speaking of which - today we had family lunch at Treetops. The ran out of turkey and tried to pass off roast chicken. WWD?
November 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Castle Park
November 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
The Fab Five
November 26th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Klum Gym
November 26th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
KCC on Pensacola street. I went there! Spent 4 1/2 years there. (wasn't in a rush)
November 26th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
@Rod: I went to Point two times. The second time, my friend and I were standing somewhere and a guy walked past doing that check-you-out-up-and-down thing. My friend looked at him and said "$5.00 a lb".
I almost spit my drink. hahaha
>>>Magic Mushroom in the Gold Bond bldg. Not a sober soul in sight and the cheapest booze money could buy.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Surf movies at Roosevelt Auditorium.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
That was you?!? j/k
November 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Little George's Restaurant (across the Gold Bond building)
November 26th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
@Rod: KCC Pensacola: spent 2yrs there, I was. (in a rush)
>>>Scientologist guys who stood at street corners trying to peddle their beliefs on young college students.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Kojak's on Young Street. That was Mel Cabang's place, wasn't it?
November 26th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Toma/Natto played at Kojaks. Not sure about Mel Cabang, but I saw him when he was at that One Kapiolani Bldg (?) where TJ is now.
>>>making pompoms and carrying them on our walk to/from the old HNL Stadium for football games.
*does typing a lot burn Thanksgiving calories?
November 26th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Cutting newspaper and magazines into strips to make streamers to throw at football games. Magazines unraveled better.
*yes, typing a lot does burn off Thanksgiving calories.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Computer was left on so was going shut down and decided to check MLC...
Reuben' s at Kahala Mall
November 26th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Good evening @visitor.
>>>The Who used to smash all their instruments after a performance.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
@visitor: we can all burn calories for awhile
>>> Yum Yum Tree Kahala Mall Aside from the obvious pies, they had the most ono Liver dinner with bacon, onion, peppers, mushrooms. Was Liver Deluxe!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Andy's Ebb Tide in Kailua
@ Sally - It's twilight zone time again, knew a girl named Sally went to Farrington and her uncle owned Jolly Rogers, so every time she went out with us we got, special prices for the food. And then my gf at that time had a sister named J _ _ , dang you been hanging in my life in many different ways.
Eki cyclery at Ala Moana along with India Imports.
The Super Ferry & Aloha Air Lines
November 26th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
The Monkees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9daWKeyB8KM
November 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
The Banana Splits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS8RVkaIM9c
November 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
>>>Three Dog Night/Chicago concert summer of '71
November 26th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
>>>going to every Sha Na Na concert in the 70's
November 26th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C86oH5RwyJg
November 26th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
@RBB: just like your ghosts of past/present/future? Wasn't there a movie about that? hahaha
@Rod: I'm really trying to get you to 1000 here
>>>working graveyard shift Zippys McCully and getting all those prank ph calls on the take out order phone. (Rod, was that you again?)
November 26th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
>>>Rolling Stones concert 1972 (?)
November 26th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
>>>Chuck Berry concert 1974
November 26th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Scottys and Chips on Keeaumoku
November 26th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Jams, the original long shorts.
Beehives, and this was way BEEfore Shauna.
Watusi, Locomotion, Mashed Potatoes, Jerk, Monkey.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Kyu Sakamoto - Ue wo muite arukou (Sukiyaki)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k
@sally - karaoke this one!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
La Mancha
November 26th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
La Mancha ---> 10:00 punk rock hour: B-52s, Cars, Pretenders
Wait, wrong blog. LOL
November 26th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii January '73
November 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Seafood Emporium
November 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
@RBB: My friend's uncle was Uncle Chunky. Yes, there was a "Chunky".
>>>that bar at the top of Ala Moana Hotel. Only went once. Not good experience. Concert + Good Herb + Drinks + Fastest Elevator in HNL = not a good date.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Vonn Ham Young
November 26th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Universal Motors
November 26th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
GEM Store on Ward
November 26th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Don Shaw Auto Sales
Remember those late night commercials? Sung to the tune of There's no Business Like Show Business
"There's no business like Shaw business,
Like Shaw business something, something,
...
"So go buy at Don Shaw"
November 26th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
>>>Gordon Lightfoot concert... lose money! He was so drunk, wasted, and obnoxious I was so disillusioned.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Liliha Saimin
November 26th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
King's Daughter's Home on Waialae, site of Kaimuki Shopping Ctr
November 26th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
>>>my brother's garage band. Don't think they ever made it out of the garage.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Aloha Motors on Atkinson
November 26th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Mike Salta Pontiac on Nimitz
November 26th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Lighthouse and Tower of Power concert at the HIC
One Fine Morning - another song played at Nuuanu Y dances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvVN_KRriTM
November 26th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
>>>Tubby's Drive In that became Crown Drive In that became Zippys Drive In on 7th and Waialae Ave.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Washington Saimin
November 26th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Hawaiian Hut Disco at the Ala Moana Hotel (I never did visit that place)
November 26th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Aotani Deli on Waialae, now a Vietnamese place next to Toys and Joys.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
@visitor - Washington Saimin! The bulgogi plate. bulgogi over a bed of rice. We used to go there after watching Chinese kung fu movies.
>>> Empress Theater
November 26th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Ethel's Deli on King - best cone sushi
November 26th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Before Empress,
>>> Liberty Theater
November 26th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
>>>mercurochrome
November 26th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Almost 600, but going to call it a day. Good night.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Seaflight???
November 26th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
The first time I ever danced - was at a Nuuanu YMCA dance. I asked Wendy Watanabe to dance. We danced to this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u-rdFAVECg
I think it was the Sounds of Innocence playing it...
November 26th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
@visitor - thanks! This entry will be the current post until Monday. Going try to hit 1,000 posts over the weekend.
>>> Youth Unlimited - printed on the yellow paper. I used to get mine at Holiday Mart.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
LOL
We called it "the orange medicine". "No! Not that one. It burns!"
November 26th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Sorry, Seaflight ferry.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Playing kick ball in elementary school. "baby bouncy or slow n smooth?"
November 26th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Aotani Fountain! The big open entrance and soda fountain style seating.
Ethels Deli! My friend's in-laws. Best cone sushi on the planet!
Washington Saimin! We used to go after bowling.
>>>Stop Light. where Dunkin Donuts is now on Kapiolani across Convention Ctr.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
@NaPueo - I remember seaflight. Used to launch from Aloha Towers. Had same color scheme as the Seattle Seahawks.
>>> Diver watches. My first watch was a "divers watch". Paid $12 for one from Wigwam.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:02 am
@sally
Stop Light 
>>> Arirang on Kaheka. Charlotte was her name.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Rod: last entry before nene...
>>>The Giant Stride on the playground. The tall pole with chains hanging down with handles to hold on to. You'd get a running start then jump and "fly" for a couple of seconds around the pole.
We used to pack each other by twisting two chains together and take turns flying and pulling each other thru the air.
*who was the brainchild who thought this was good elem school playground equipment?
Good Night Rod, be back in the morning.
Goal: 1000!
November 27th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Rod: you ever got change from her? hahaha
One more last one. sheesh.
>>>tetherball. Holding or no holding. Gotta declare the rule before you start. G.P. slammed the ball into my face (was accident) and I was so mad. Now you know why I look like this?
Okay for real kine. Oyasumi.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@sally - thanks for staying up. I'm off tomorrow. Black Friday here I come!
>>>The salt and pepper shaker ride at carnivals.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@sally: Those were great playground equipment, with just grass or dirt underneath. No padding like they need today.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Hawaii Islanders
November 27th, 2009 at 12:40 am
The WFL football team..
November 27th, 2009 at 12:42 am
The stink bridge, on the way to Kahaluu from Kaneohe..
November 27th, 2009 at 12:42 am
The town girls..
November 27th, 2009 at 12:55 am
The old bridge to Wahiawa. Tires made a humming as you drove over the steel grating.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:56 am
The draw bridge to Sand Island
November 27th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jJ1ORIOes
One of the true classics...this one contains a verse not heard on any recordings except at concerts.
She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died
November 27th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Acid Hill....not sure of exact location back then....gave an illusion of your car rolling uphill.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:09 am
This is one of the songs that we played...loved to play the bass on this song...wasn't a bad slow dance song either...
James & Bobby Purify - I'm Your Puppet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMSSEICU7kY
November 27th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Another great oldies with the bass picking that I loved to play.....
A version of Jackie Wilson's Higher and Higher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWqzHvSMvw
November 27th, 2009 at 1:26 am
We would forgo attending our school's dances and instead drop in on a town school's dances. There we would end up chatting with the girls and exchanged club cards. Frequently. we would have a social with them on a future weekend.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:39 am
One of our favorite road trip songs in high school to visit our GFs at Leilehua....four of us crammed into a Datsun Bluebird with the Craig 8 track blasting.....
The Moody Blues - Ride my See Saw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2DQBlVcJ0
November 27th, 2009 at 1:49 am
One place that not too many can take their date's to back then or now - Kolekole Pass - making the trip from the Waianae side to Schofield Barracks. The guards would warn you to not stop anywhere until you've reached the other gate. There were no street lights so it was completely dark sans your headlights as I made the winding trip up and over to the other side.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:10 am
@sally one of the members of "Skye" the band was Milton currently of "Wasabi"
when soda was sold in bottles in those machine with cold water. running in them
when they used to sell dill pickles covered in wax at the candy store
and those little wax tubes "filled" with "juice".
My grandparents had one of those pig farms out where Hawaii Kai is now, right about where Naniwa Gardens bldg is, That pond that is fronting that area was there also and we used to catch and eat all sorts of fish from that pond.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:27 am
@72view, not sure if correct name, but we called those wax tubes filled w/sweet juice "tecola."
...playing samurai with homemade swords made of haole koa branches
November 27th, 2009 at 6:20 am
8 track tapes.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:23 am
March of Dimes Haunted House in the Alexander Young Building. Having to catch the elevator that had a gate for a door. Sppooookkkkkyyy.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Theo's (if I remember correctly) in the Alexander Young Building, where it was cafeteria style, you'd grab a tray, and walk down the line choosing what kinds of food you wanted. I always liked the open face turkey or a rare roast beef sandwich.
Patty's Chinese Kitchen in Ala Moana.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:24 am
I remember when we all lived riskier childhoods...
http://comics.com/pickles/2009-11-27/
November 27th, 2009 at 6:34 am
I remember when we anticipated and celebrated and savored each holiday instead of blending one holiday with the next.
http://comics.com/peanuts/2009-11-27/
November 27th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Metal pencil clips, that you slid onto the pencil so that you could clip it to something - either in your pocket, or on the folder that you covered with plastic report covers and colored vinyl tape.
Zots candy (I think that was the name)
Girls having Japanese scented erasers that smelled like Fusen gum. They'd put that, and their cutesy pencils with matching caps for the point into their magnetic-closure pencil cases.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Zoom on PBS
School House Rock (yes, I got it on DVD now cuz the songs are just so catchy)
November 27th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Good morning Rodney and MLCers!
masako's grandparents was the owners of Chunky's Drive Inn. To bad masako didn't take ova....
Chuck Wagon.....
November 27th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Ranch House
November 27th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Folding military completely manual can openers that used to be given out to open rations, but now with MRE's, they're no longer necessary. It was the pushing action of your hand and moving the opener along the can edge that sliced open the lid from the can.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Swiss Inn
November 27th, 2009 at 7:22 am
@TwoFish, waz called P-38, I may still have one somewhere. We opened the cans, lit a wad of C4 and heat up our food, chew on the enclosed chicklet gum, smoked a cigarette from the 4-pack, and even had a wad of toilet paper after digesting our tobasco drenched army field food.
...listening to "Light My Fire" by the Doors on a battery operated record player in our hooch.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Beatle boots
November 27th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Kodak Instamatic camera with the cube flash
November 27th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Hemajang - P-38s. It has come in handy more than once, outside of military life.
After 8-tracks, sliding in the cassette player in the car, so that you can play tapes, and then sliding it back out.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:50 am
hemajang: I can remember when most of us never heard of a place called Vietnam. My brother served in Vietnam, too.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:08 am
4 digit phone numbers.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Good Morning~!
anklez: Acid Hill is in Aina Haina. What band did you play in? And re: #616 that was called punching time. LOL
72view: Milton was in Skye too? I going scold him for stealing our name hahaha! btw, we're trying to pad the posts here... one remembry at a time.
@Masako: ahhhhh, now it all makes sense (Chunky's)
@M: RanchHouse was yours? LOL
>>>coffee percultors you put on the stove with the glass knob on top.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:15 am
anklez: and what about Town Girls?
>>>metal ice trays w/ the lever you pull to break the ice.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:17 am
@2fish-- Just watched Schoolhouse Rock couple nights ago with the kids. "How a Bill becomes a law."
November 27th, 2009 at 8:22 am
>>>when you went to the doctor and he gave you medicine, it was in those round cardpaper pill boxes with the instructions hand written on top.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Remember JPOs?
No mention yet of the pants called "drapes"?
Curtis "The Bull" Iaukea and Nicky Bockwinkel
November 27th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Forbidden City, next to Lippy's
Roosevelt Theater on Maunakea
Double features at Kailua Theater
November 27th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Greg Noll surf shop on Waialae.
Surf Line surf shop on Piikoi, next to Beaver Grill.
Hobie & Inter-Island surf shop on Kapiolani.
Muntz Stereo on Kapiolani.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Paying extra for Air Mail.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:33 am
:-B
November 27th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Disc lollipops with the looped handle in the cello wrap after getting vaccinated. Now they give stickers or something.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Chewing on those red dye disclosing tablets from the dentist so that you could see where the plaque still remained, and go brush again.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Not having to pay for a single bag on inter-island trips, Hawaiian now charges $10.00.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:38 am
As I am looking for a F/T job, I remember the days of filling out an application by hand, or printing out a resume on nice paper, sending it in a large envelope, and getting response by mail or phone. Now, everything seems to be by email!
November 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am
When a "mouse" was a rodent.
A "Ram" was a male goat.
When "IM" meant "I am".
When "text" was a book.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:42 am
RBB- and "chatting" meant face to face, not by electronic means to other people who are or not near you.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:48 am
RBB: My high school BFF got her 8 track from Muntz when she bought her first car. Went thru all of senior yr listening to Emerson Lake & Palmer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrO9lmKQf1E
still on my top songs list I could listen to over and over.
TwoFish: we still give those disclosing tabs. Amazing in this day and age how some kids are so gross!
This one is for Rod:
>>>dental treatment with no anesthesia! aiyeeeee
November 27th, 2009 at 8:51 am
When "Hippie" was a lady with a big bottom.
When "Acid" was a caustic solution.
When "Grass" was something you planted in your yard.
When "Rap" was something you did on a door before entering.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Ink bottles, with the ink well.
Ink in a plastic cartridge.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Honolulu International Airport was on Keehi Lagoon Drive.
Kona Airport was in Kona.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:59 am
When you had a friend in H.S. who was always called "Nigga" and he was not an African-American.
When everyone was "American" and not "Asian-American", "African-American", and "Latin-American".
Horse Race Track in Kailua, around Kaha Street.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:01 am
When being "politically incorrect" meant getting your mouth washed out with soap or you had to eat a chili pepper.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:01 am
When "Rap" was alive and really funny.
"Tell Fate Yanagi I love her......"
November 27th, 2009 at 9:05 am
RBB - I still ues ink from bottles with the inkwell so that you can dip the fountain pen and lift the lever or screw the plunger to suck it into the bladder, and I use plastic cartridges. I no longer fling the uncapped pen at people, though.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:07 am
>>>The Jerk, The Mashed Potato, The Shimmy, The Twist...when dances had names.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:08 am
@ Sally- The doctor used to tape the pill box on your left shoulder after you had your small pox vaccination.
@ Rod - When the dentist said tell me when it hurts, and then waited till the pain subsided then went back at it.
@ Nate - When as a JPO you had to wear white dress shirt with Kaheki pants and then later Blue pants, and the girls had the same uniform only they had to wear skirts. The plastic helmets that were Red at first then became Yellow. And how many people had their hoods dented from kids who had a hard time holding the signs, LOL.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:08 am
4 track tapes
November 27th, 2009 at 9:08 am
>>>then, in the 70's, The Popcorn, The Hustle...
November 27th, 2009 at 9:11 am
45 RPM records
I still have a bunch of them too...
November 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
My albums (and maybe 45s too?) are at my friend's house. I think he's holding them ransom.
>>>78 rpm records. And when you put them in those photo album looking jackets by artist. Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, etc. My uncle left them all with us when he moved to the mainland (before I was born).
hmmmm, I wonder what my big bro did with those?
November 27th, 2009 at 9:31 am
eeek, I don't like that number that I just was.
>>>going to see The Exorcist, then not sleeping in my bed for a month? My friend cried on the way home. She ended up sleeping over another friend's house. I still won't look at scenes or listen to "that voice"
*was a very traumatic movie
November 27th, 2009 at 9:34 am
>>>Jaws. Traumatized by that one too. Went to the beach and only stayed in shallow water for a long time.
That scene where the head came down the window under water... I jumped, dropped my purse, all my cr@p fell out, had to go on the floor and look for 'um all. ~sheesh~
November 27th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Sally, this is for you:
"After the Omen," C&K
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYRjsMVSu4
November 27th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Re bridges:
Ankles, I think that stink bridge is still there. It's Kailua-side of Heeia Kea State Park, where Ulu Mau Village used to be. I understand that land (the State Park) is part of the ancestral holdings of Frank Kawaikapu`okalani Hewett's family, and his halau practices there.
Na Pueo: I remember that bridge in Wahiawa - my dad used to call it "the airplane bridge" because of the sound.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:38 am
@ M - Wasn't the M's Chuck Wagon, originally called Elliot's Chuck Wagon?
@ Sally - Jitter Bug, The Stroll, Moving hand in cirlce while slow dancing, hee hee.
When Top Fuel dragster's had the engine in the front and you could really see the rails.
Alvin Kubo's "King Rat" (Fiat) AA/FA, Mel Pestana driver.
Ron's Racing "Yellow Banana" Camero.
Kahuku Drag Strip, then Campbells Hawaii Race Way Park.
Running cheater slicks on the road and almost killing myself coming down the Pali on a rainy night.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am
My dad used to take us riding into the alien parts of the island (for me) to Wahiawa and back through Hale`iwa when I was a kid. We'd get (or pack) plate lunches and stop to eat lunch by the tennis courts in Wahiawa to watch the players (dad was an avid player back then). We'd drive down Royal Palm Drive and marvel at the beautiful trees, and go over the airplane bridge (did that bridge go over Lake Wilson)? We'd stop at the small petting zoo out near La`ie or Ka`a`awa (I can't remember where exactly) so I could pet Lani Moo.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:43 am
@ Anklebiters - Da bridge still there, but no stink any more, most peeps wouldn't know cause they have the A/C on recirc.
@ Kan - Didn't everyone call it the airplane bridge.
@ Ynaku - What nickname do they have for the one leaving Hilo?
@ Sally - Saw that number coming up, why do you think I put myself on "pause", uhmmmm could you call that "men-on-pause", why da heck we get the blame.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:53 am
@KAN: thanks for the song, I forgot about that one. I went w/ 2 other friend to see The Omen, theatre was so packed we had to split up and sit alone. Was scary, but by then I was pre-traumatized by The Exorcist.
RBB: oy, I neva even pay attn to "the number".
KAN: airplane bridge! We always looked forward to it every time we went to visit my relatives in Wahiawa. vmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>>Frankie and Annette movies!
November 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@Rodney #557: I remember when the Monkees came to Hawaii for the first time in December of 1966. It was their first concert appearance as a band and they were the headlining act at the Miss K-POI Pagent. Their TV show was doing great and their current hit record was "I'm A Believer". The sold out crowd went wild when the band hit the stage. The screaming was unreal!
It is interesting to note that the Tower Of Power/Lighthouse concerts were held during the same weekend in late May of 1974 that Cat Stevens was performing at the Waikiki Shell. That was the only time that Cat performed in Hawaii.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:59 am
>>>Waialae Drive In, Kam Drive In, Sunset Drive In, Kailua Drive In (was it called Kailua or something else? I only went once, to see Carrie). Kapiolani Drive In was to much wayyyyy before my time.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am
I remember when the shopping center (I don't know the name) on Dillingham, across from the old Kapalama Gem was a golf driving range.
As kids, we always got excited about riding on the airplane bridge, too.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:16 am
@Sally #559, #564 and #577: That Three Dog Night/Chicago concert in June of 1971 was terrific! There was such a huge demand for tickets that they had two sold out shows in one night. I believe that concert was called "Super Show '71". By the way did you get to see the James Taylor/Carole King concert in March of 1971 at the HIC Arena? I heard that James and Carole will be touring together next year and maybe they might stop in Hawaii in around late April after they finish their performances in Japan.
I saw Chuck Berry for the first time in July of 1971 at the Blaisdell Arena when he was the opening act for Lee Michaels. Chuck stole the show by doing his famous "duck walk" and performing songs like "My Ding A Ling" and the updated version of "Reelin' And Rockin'". He did so well that promoter John Leonard brought Chuck back in January of 1972 with Bo Diddley at the Arena. That was also another great show.
I saw Gordon Lightfoot in 1973 at the Arena and he was very good. I think that was the first time that he appeared in Hawaii. However, I heard about the time in I believe the summer of 1975 when he showed up drunk and put on a disappointing show.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
They use to have the Diamond Head Crater Festivals every year on January 1st from I believe 1969 to 1976. At first admission was "Free" but later due to rising costs, they started to charge a small admission fee. Thousands of people use to attend every year.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am
@Steve: Plenny good concerts to remember!
>>>getting the holiday goodie bag from church with the apple and orange.
time to hit da road. No shopping but still, gotta compete w/ traffic. Hopefully most drivers will be in Aloha mode.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:43 am
@Sally #680: Earlier you mentioned going to Sha Na Na concerts! I use to go to their shows too. It was a lot of fun and I also learned about the songs from the 1950's and early 1960's that I was not too familiar with at first. Those early oldies songs are great fun to listen to. Sha Na Na had a lot of intelligent members in the group. Bowzer, the skinny bass singer who always flexed his muscles, attended The Juilliard School and graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University. Scott Powell, who was called Tony Santini and sang all of the Elvis songs, is an orthopedic surgeon, the black singer Denny Greene is a law professor and bass guitarist "Bruno" Clarke is an English professor. You can read more about them at the following site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha_Na_Na
November 27th, 2009 at 10:58 am
@ Steve - You must be a young'un cause you would have remembered "Eric Burton & The Animals" headlining with "Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels" or at one 50th State Fair they had "Sam the Sham & The Pharohs".
How many of you had to watch "Lawrence Welk" or "Mitch Miller" on Sunday's, only cause my dad controled the tv.
"Biddy Boxing" on KGMB
November 27th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Rod,
This blog is a good way to exercise the memories and aid from "dementia", so you gotta do the short term things like what was here in 2000 and isn't here anymore.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Surfing @ Kewalo's and watching the sharks follow the tuna fleet in to port.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
The International Surf Meet @ Makaha, when had only two lanes from Waipahu and the traffic back up from Waianae.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Piggly Wiggly in Kailua with the "foot long" hot dogs.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Remember when the "Recon" Station was next to the incinerators in Kewalo.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Remember when "Dad" would give us a slap for playing pin ball machines @ Kalihi Bowl.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Clothe diapers and metal diaper pins with the pink or blue lambs.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Plastic diaper protectors with 3 metal snaps on each side.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Andy Bumatai opening for Booga Booga at the Territorial Tavern.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Surfing at "Castles" in Kailua with only a grass canoe hut on the beach by the "Castle's" house.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Surfing @ Garbage Hole and Sand Island before had a park.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Surfing Makaha with an 8'10" inter-island and the skeg humming because it was like 10-12 local style (now 20' face value).
November 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Remember when Maiili didn't have the break wall and a nice right and then when big "Cloud Break".
November 27th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Using fish filter (fiberglass shreds) mixed with resin to fill dings from surfing at Sandy's, neva have leash in those days.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Remember when I would have 5 guys with 5 long boards on my '67 bug to go surf.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
The 2 Little League fields @ Kainalu Elementary School.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Playing Dodge ball and German Dodge ball (sham battle) for p.e. in elementary.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Making bubbles with the tounge and then blowing them off the second floor at Kailua High School during lunch.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:34 am
The infamous "Rule 13" at Kailua High School, "No showing of affection". Got busted on that one and will never forget the teacher who almost got punched out for that one.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:37 am
The Presidential Physical Challenge (do they still have that one?). Sit ups, soft ball throw, 1/2 mile run, push ups, long jump, shuttle run.
Okay, nuff, gotta pack and get ready to go see grandson play against Pearl City tomorrow on Maui.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I don't remember this personally, but Ha`iku Plantations, the exclusive gated community in Kane`ohe, used to be Haiku Dump.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@Sally: yup, it was Kailua Drive In. Went there many times with my parents.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
A little late but thought I'd put my 2cents in...
Green Stamps....Buta Kau Kau....Grocery Busses
November 27th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Turning straws inside out
November 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
First National Bank.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
How about in high school when girls used to put scotch tape on their eyelids so they have double eyes.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Makaha Shorts, guys used to wear them, knee length with a stripe down the side and button down pockets on each side, think it had a button fly also.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I remember when we put our trash out in cans instead of bins and the guys manually dumped our trash in the truck. (Oh, that was just a few years ago.)
November 27th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
The bus was only 10 cents for students and it was called HRT.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Okay, then...I remember moving to Kaneohe on a Sunday in 1964 and late in the afternoon we tried to find a store or eating place for dinner. Everything was closed. We couldn't find anything. We ended up at my sister's house eating cornbeef cabbage.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Rosie's was next to the old Kapiolani Bandstand were you could buy a Hamburger Plate lunch and a can drink for a dollar.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Paper Shots for your paper shot pistol or rile.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I remember at one time the HRT ran on electricity and we used to sing...
Oh, you can't go to heaven,
On an HRT,
Cause the Lord don't allow
No electricity.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hearing "war stories" from your father and/or uncles about the 100th and 442 Infantry Battalion. They never talked much about the actual fighting but you got the idea. I loved to hear them as a kid and "played war" all the time, then as I got older and eligble for the draft or later volunteer, it did not seem as glorious an adventure. As I got older though I realized what honor and courage it took for them to volunteer to serve this country during that time. Sadly, only ten percent of those that served during WW2 are still with us, America's Geatest Generation is passing on. To them and all who have served and continue to serve this great country I owe a debt of gratitude I can never fully repay.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
@ROD - #540, I was at Tree Tops this past Saturday. The roast chicken is Chinese Turkey!
@Sally - #545, would your friend still say "5.00/lb" today? I don't think I could afford $1000.
@ROD - #571, My sister Jenni was hostess at Seafood Emporium
@hemajang - #620, howz about playing "Kikaida" on the front yard with the neighborhood kids?
@Nate - #642, JPO = Japanese Popcorn Operator. I was one of them
@zzzzzz - #659, I met Fate Yanagi...(Gayln Kong Akaka)...Daughter-in-law of the Senator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOPglaz6J4
@sally - #668..."all my Cr@p fell out"...you mean your purse right?
New Memories
- pencil fights with Eagle Mirado brand
- Military "pup" tents for camping
- the time when Boy Scouts were made for boys and not pu$$ies
November 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
around where the Moiliili McDonalds is (I think) there was a place where you could ride/drive these little cars around a track. Had a sign behind it that read "Bubble-Up, It likes you, you like it"
November 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Dole Cannery Pineapple water tower
November 27th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I remember when Sunday afternoons at the Natatorium was full of life and filled with the sounds of fun. Our spot was the makai side wall on the Ewa corner. (The last time I saw the Natatorium a few years ago, it was eerily quiet and dead. Sad.
)
November 27th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
72View: #714 The Go For Broke guys...I still get chicken skin...
Four forty second Infantry,
The boys from Hawaii Nei...
November 27th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@supe's re:sally#545 wahahahahaha....!!!
when we used to say grace before eating lunch in public elementary school. God is great,
God is good
and we thank Him
for our food.
Amen
He is still great and still good!
November 27th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Captain Kangaroo
November 27th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Skipper Al
Skipper Jack
and of course...
Billy Boy Muenster
November 27th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Ok you guys, I'm home now. You think I wouldn't read back posts?
>>>going with your boyfriend on a hot date to Kam Drive In to see a really bad movie called "It's Alive" and now, 35 yrs later...still remembering everything about it. Which means we actually watched the movie.
@RBB #689: visualizing Rod w/ blue lambs and the plastic diaper covers. bhahahaha! thinking of next Halloween's costume for him.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
@Seattle Gail #706: I started using scotch tape in 9th grade, then switched to surgical glue. By soph yr I woke up one morning and the "double" stayed. Been there since then.
>>>waiting for you older brothers to all go out so you can go into their record stash and play their 45s on the "record player".
*first record I ever owned was when my mom bought me Let The Sun Shine In by Pebbles and Bamm Bamm.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
#613 @anklebiters Acid hill was at the top of Poola St. We used to go there after socials. It really did seem like the car was rolling uphill. Went up there a few months ago, but couldn't even find the spot. It's developed WAY beyond that point.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Aina Haina Pool - on the makai ewa side of Aina Haina Shopping Center
November 27th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Anyone remember the KGMB truck? They used to stop by random houses in the evening & if you were watching KGMB, you'd get a bag of goodies?
November 27th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
@sally #723 - if you watched the movie at the drive inn, then your date was NOT that hot.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
@supes: I guess NOT! hahahaha Is he reading this?
okay gang, signing off again. Pick up my darling daughter and heading for the Craft Fair. Then dancing tonight.
Shameless plug: Wasabi @ Chopsticks tonight 9:30-midnight. Chopsticks is the Maple Garden Restaurant. Small, cozy venue that turns into a place for dancing to the oldies after dinner. WASABI!!! Nicest peeps around and good friends from wayyyyyyy back.
See ya!
November 27th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I remember Kui Lee and his beautiful, beautiful lyrics.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
@sally and supe... when you start watching a movie and some fierce @$$ creature comes exploding out of some womans...and start to tear all the people in the delivery room apart, that kind of take the steam out of your pipes...know what I mean?
November 27th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
sally:
punching time....hmmm...I may have forgotten that phrase
town girls - all of my GF's were from town until my future GF/wife/ex, she was from the same school. Funny how things turn out...
KAN/Rod's big bro:
I usually make my around-the-island trip when I'm here and drive past the home that my then GF use to live in in Kahaluu. Ulu Mau Village - I douldn't remember that name
Remember attending a few weddings and banquets there.
Is Haiku Gardens still around? I was married there.
Konaish:
Thanks.....I remember it being a dead end street back then.
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Woolly Bully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHF558u6Q_8
November 27th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
@ Kan - Poor thing having to go to the drive-in with your parents, maybe should have hit on Castle Girls instead of the townies.
Remember when you could wait with your friend at the gate till the plane left.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Going to Tahitian Lani and seeing the Surfers and their coconut shrimp was excellent.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Remember Jackies Travel, still got a coin bag with a frog on the front, won it on my first trip to Vegas, guess the my name made the difference.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
The Exorcist - that was a head turner
Carrie - Blood
Godfather - the horse head in the bed
Bullit - that chase scene through The streets of San Francisco
Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuvyK4hGrhQ
Love Story - I dunno about that not saying sorry
November 27th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Seeing the SOS in Waikiki, can't remember the name of the hotel, but had to go up an escalator.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Surf movies at Roosevelt auditorium and Kailua High School cafeteria.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Shooting bottle caps at the surf movies.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Shooting people with ice thru the straw at movie theaters.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
KAN:
My high school friend lived in that gated in community. One of a few families in Kaneohe that had a pool that I remember. His dad owned a nursery back then. Anyone remember the Umemoto's
November 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
@RBB #737: Wasn't the hotel across from the International Marketplace?
November 27th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
@TwoFish & hemajang: P-38 I Still carry one and may have a couple stashed somewhere. Was just at Military HQ store the other day and saw some for sale. I think they're copies.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
@KAN #672: Yes the "airplane" bridge spanned Lake Wilson from the Wheeler Airfield side.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Dunes.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Professor Fun
November 27th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Dunes? yeah, went to a lunch with fellow workers there many years ago and the infamous Butch Williams served us the salad. He was standing on a stool so his, ah, da kine was prominently staring you in the face. I don't remember if he was wearing a head net, you know, for sanitary reasons. I should have kept the picture of his da kine with a ruler to prove its length.
...Forbidden City.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Arakawa Store, palaka shirts...remember their radio spot with the crowing roosters.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Arakawas - brought back some memories of sugar cane being processed into sugar. That molasses smell around the area, and the bees.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Pearl City Tavern. I remember the waitress who was known for remembering everyone's order without having to write it down.
Monkey Bar...those nasty monkeys.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Electronic plugs were 2-prong, not 3-prong, and many of them had just a chipboard cover so the wires were not exposed.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Black snow...the burnt fallout from burning sugar cane. My mother hated it when the laundry was hanging.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Transistor radio...bought my first gadget from Arakawa's.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Honolulu Business College, downtown.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
First cell phone bricks, could be used as weapons.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
@ROD #682: I had a concert review from April of 1968 in regards to that Eric Burdon And The Animals concert. I think it was a Dick Clark and KKUA radio production. As you mentioned, Mitch Ryder was one of the supporting acts. The other two were The Strawberry Alarm Clock of "Incense And Peppermint" fame and a local band called Loves Special Delivery. Eric Burdon used a lot of strobe light during his performance.
I think Sam The Sham also performed at the HIC Arena in possibly early February of 1967 on a K-POI show. I remember Question Mark And The Mysterians ("96 Tears") performing at a Teen Fair during the summer of 1967 possibly at Magic Island.
By the way, I just found something that mentioned that the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown performed at the HIC Arena in late November of 1968. Did anyone attend that show? I did not get to go so I was wondering how it turned out. The only song I know of his is the big hit "Fire".
November 27th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Kramer's Man of the Year. Strike a pose imitating them too.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Steve:
Here's a video of Fire, I haven't heard this song in years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLMjHy12eWo
November 27th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Titus Chan on PBS.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Cowboy matches, was pretty cool if you could strike it with your thumbnail to light your Kools. Everyone smoked Kools. Started in intermediate school but quit at age 20. We bought the cowboy matches from the Surplus Store in Waipahu, was at the corner of Depot and Waipahu Street.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
@Steve, I like your memory of concerts in the 60's. I went to many but can't remember half of them...second hand smoke.
Sonny and Cher at the HIC and I'm guessing 1964.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Steve/Hemajang: Speaking of concerts, did you hold up lighters or cowboy matches as your arm waved in the air? Now it is cell phones lit up, right?
November 27th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
@sassydog - Welcome to MLC. Thanks for posting #705 and 706. Glad you're joining in on the memories!
November 27th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Whew, what a day. Ala Moana for some BF shopping, home to take a nap and Zippy's for Friday night dinner with the in-laws.
@KAN - #670 - Remember when Ulu Mau village was at Ala Moana park, across where Magic Island parking lot is now? I think the lagoon was part of Ulu Mau Village.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
>>> Strawberry oils for girls.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
>>>Patchouli oils for the hippies. (I have a bottle)
November 27th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
>>>"Gee, your hair smells terrific" shampoo in the purple bottle.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
#735, RBB: I don't mean to rub it in, but I was 5 at the time I was going to Kailua Drive In with my parents!
Really. My dad owned a Shelby Mustang at the time, and there was no back seat - only a shelf. Good thing I was small.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
ankles, #734: yup, Haiku Gardens is still there - the garden, that is. The restaurant is now Hale`iwa Joe's (go figure - they started in Hale`iwa, then they expanded to Kane`ohe). Best prime rib on the island, IMHO. It's one of my parents' favorite restaurants (the other one being Buzz's in Lanikai). My grandpa used to get a prime rib from Haiku Gardens every year for New Year's Eve when it was still called Haiku Garden. I never realized what a treat that was until I was much older.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Speaking of the movie "Carrie", when all us guys went to see it, by the end of the movie we were all slouching in the seat (like teenagers do). Then in the end when the hand popped up - Bam! all us guys were suddenly sitting straight up in out seats.
So the following week we went again with this '75 Kaimuki girl. I made sure I was sitting next to her and when the surprise ending came - sure enough, she grabbed on and held tight. (cheap trick).
>>> Cheap Trick at the NBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdwMSONE-aw
November 27th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
@Rodney, #766: nope, sorry, don't remember when Ulu Mau Village was town side. I didn't get to town much as a kid. Going to Ala Moana was a big adventure!
November 27th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Avon's Sweet Honesty that was popular among girls.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
@KAN - I went to Kailua Drive in a lot with my dad and my brother (not RBB). Of course, be the younger one I had the back seat. The mosquito punk was burning in the front on the center hump of the floor.
When I got bored, I'd lie back and look out the back window that the clouds passing by Mt. Olomana in a moonlit sky.
>>> Playing in the sand in the playground during intermission at the drive in - until the lights blinked off and on - signaling time to return to the car.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
@TwoFish
>>> "Ding dong, Avon calling".
November 27th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Love's Baby Soft too.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
>>> Faberge Brut cologne for the guys.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
>>> Shiseido Zen perfume for the girls.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
>>> Fizzies
November 27th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Rod - what's Fizzies? First thing came to mind was Alka Seltzer or Efferdent denture cleaners.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Helipad next to Hilton lagoon
November 27th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Spindrifter Restaurant
November 27th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Graces lunchwagon at UH
November 27th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
@TwoFish - Fizzies were these flavored tabs - like Alak Seltzer - that made water "fizz" into soda. Well sorta.
http://theimaginaryworld.com/fizzie09.jpg
November 27th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
>>> Yacht Harbor Towers Restaurant
November 27th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
>>> Black Angus Steakhouse
November 27th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Tsukenjo lunch wagon on Queen St by Ward.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Kanda Lunch wagon at Kewalo Basin. Used to walk over, barefoot, from Ala Moana Beach to get plate lunch,
November 27th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Shakey's Pizza where Sorabol is now.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
PIer 7 at the Ilikai
November 27th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
E&E lunch wagon at the Honolulu Iron Works off Ala Moana
November 27th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
The Black Orchid at Restaurant Row.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Oh yeah, and dancin on the counters at Studebaker's!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
sheesh! you just spoiled it for me now!
: 
November 27th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Aku boats in Kewalo Basin
November 27th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Mid Pac Airlines
November 27th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Pan Am, Western, TWA...airlines no more.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
TF - ahh.....so you were one of them counter dancers! woo hoo!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Masquerade's with acid washed jeans.
Pink Cadillac - was cool seeing the car chassis coming out of the building.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Matson ocean liners - Lurline, Matsonia and Monterey
November 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
....Horitsuji's Restaurant......had ono fish dishes
November 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Marrakech (eh, how you spell um?)
Maharaja's
OK, I need to go dancing soon!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Grace Jones . . . Boy George
November 27th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Kurobara's'.......along Kapalama canal and across Aala Park. had da wickedest pupus evah!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Using a rake to clean the yard, not noisy leaf blowers.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Robert Hall Store on Sand Island Road
November 27th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Kobayashi Hotel across Aala Park.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
.....Phase......The Wave......Pink Cadillac.....Hell
November 27th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Kuhio Grill (KGs) on King St in Moiliili...lot's of good pupus.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
.....Kaneda's
November 27th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Kimuraya in Kaimuki.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Frankenstein, Dracula, Werewolf & Mummy movies.
these were the spooky/scary type movies until........THE EXORCIST!
......trying to traumatize sally some moa. muahahaha!!!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Suzuki Restaurant next door to Kimuraya.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Godzilla!
November 27th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Hey opso, how's the Big Island!
>>> Fort Delicatessen in Mapunapuna
November 27th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Kinipopo
November 27th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
>>> Kalani "call now, fer shure"
November 27th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
>>> Stonefree waterbeds
November 27th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
The Sun Press newspaper
November 27th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
The Pali Press newspaper (on the windward side)
November 27th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Davey Jones Locker cocktail lounge in Waikiki
November 27th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
>>> Lucky Luck and Lucky Larger beer
November 27th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
>>> Yick Lung seeds
November 27th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Dutch Girl Bakery on Liliha St.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Half nylon mesh shirts (football style?)
November 27th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
>>> Hicks Homes
Remember when homes were built with tongue and groove redwood.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Long white (tube?) socks to the knees, with stripes around the top.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Stirrup pants, leg warmers, crimped hair for the girls.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Jimmy Z, Converse high-tops, polo shirts (Ralph Lauren, Izod, Munsingwear)
November 27th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Powder blue suits with ruffled shirts.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Tube tops, lycra garments.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
@RBB739--Wasn't it the Outrigger?
November 27th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Italian horn gold charm on necklace.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Gold floating hearts on necklace
November 27th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Safety pin and spiked jewelry/accessories, studs, leather - punk 80's.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Hot pants & go-go boots/turtle necks and Nheru jackets
November 27th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Homegrown Albums
November 27th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Ooh, Hungry Ear & Records Hawaii. . .
November 27th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Interlude Music and Books
November 27th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Mickey Mouse watches/folders/shirts, etc.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Good night all. . .
November 27th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
@TwoFish - #839 - I was trying to remember the shop next to Stonefree Waterbeds. Records Hawaii!
Thanks for all your contributions!
>>> Del Webb's Kuilima
November 27th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Largo - it's raining! duh?
November 27th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
more BI shtuffs:
......Orchid Island Hotel w/ monkey bar.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:00 am
.....Herks Tavern......CJ's Nightclub occupied there short while.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:01 am
.....Sun Sun Lau Chinese Restaurant
November 28th, 2009 at 12:02 am
.....Kaiko'o Mall.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:03 am
....Ola'a Steak House
November 28th, 2009 at 12:04 am
.....Puna Sugar
November 28th, 2009 at 12:06 am
.....Pick & Pay, Mall Foods & Sure Save supermarkets
November 28th, 2009 at 12:08 am
.....Kilauea Store.....one of da place to....ahem..... buy beeas.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:12 am
.....Sumida's restaurant & bar
November 28th, 2009 at 12:15 am
......Food Fair supermarket
November 28th, 2009 at 12:16 am
.....Woolsworth's
November 28th, 2009 at 12:19 am
.....Gold Bond stamps redemption store.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:21 am
......Dick's Coffee House' Planters Bar, Ben Franklin and Kurohara's in the Hilo Shopping Center
November 28th, 2009 at 12:22 am
......KK Tei & KK Pantry
November 28th, 2009 at 12:23 am
......Project 3 (head shop)
November 28th, 2009 at 12:24 am
.....Wendy's
November 28th, 2009 at 12:30 am
.....Hilo Macaroni Factory....Saloon Pilot crackas
November 28th, 2009 at 12:33 am
.....1 cent parking meters.......maybe still get.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:46 am
KK Place?????????
November 28th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Sally- on Kapahulu Ave. do you remember the dog house hot dog A frame stand next to leonards and bill's bakery for their custard pie.
your friend linda was the girl who we threw rotten mango at. we got scared because she threw back.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:58 am
rod- bought my first car from don shaw's. 1978 black Z28 Camaro with vahlor bucket seats and spoilers.
i remember charlotte at arirang. she was good at ping pong.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Toyo theater in down town.
and for the guys Lido theater (never been there hmmm)
remember shoe string red licorice, cinnamon toothpicks, rock candy
November 28th, 2009 at 1:11 am
The shift lever for standard and automatic transmissions was on the steering column.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Push button transmissions.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Kaimuki high use to go all out in making homecoming float. Real school spirit.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:50 am
@72view #733 - I wouldn't know that, because on my hot date, she was always on top.
@RBB #739/833 - "Outrigger", the 3rd generation SOS is performing there
@TwoFish #748 - Professor Fun is still alive (I shot this a Brians a few weeks ago)
http://www.ctrlaltdel-usa.net/private/091116_Entertain_Me_HB/content/bin/images/large/IMG_9134.jpg
@hemajang #762 - cowboy matches are still sold in stores, just look for the "STRIKE ANYWHERE" box, forgot what the brand name is
@fishead #865 - I haven't seen Charlotte (didn't she die of vaginal cancer?) But I did see Cigar cindy at Gardenia Gardens. She was good at shooting out peeled hard boiled eggs. One of the other male customers caught one with his mouth and chowed it down. I bought him a beer. Lucky him?
November 28th, 2009 at 2:07 am
@Rod #772: You some slick eh?
I also remember Fizzies. Fruity flavors.
@fishhead: your sister said you threw the rotten mango at Rene. You not too smaht, I wouldn't have fooled around with either her nor Linda... they pretty tough cookies!
Did Charlotte give you change too? Just like she did to Rod?
Just back from a reuniting night at Chopsticks. Flashback to 1974-76 with R, S, and P and a whole bunch of other 70's musicians.
>>>Stevie Wonder's hit song Hollywood Swingin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHP3svO704s
November 28th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Getting there Rod! But sorry, I gotta go sleep now. See y'all in the morning.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:03 am
I remember the Marlboro Man commercials on tv and in magazines.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:09 am
I remember the Pepsodent jingle...
"You wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"
And, I once saw a Beetle Volkswagon painted yellow with a sign that read, "Now you know where the yellow went."
November 28th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Paul Revere and the Raiders
November 28th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Like the milkman who delivered milk, there was the slopman who weekly came to the slopcan every week which was taken for pigfood.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:49 am
...getting ear pulled by Mr. Sakamoto in the 8th grade
...Mr. Ikeda making us hold our chair up as punishment in the 7th grade
...Terao sensei wacking us with his infamous yard stick
November 28th, 2009 at 6:54 am
@Nate, the first album I ever bought was Paul Revere and the Raiders from Woolworth's record department.
...dancing the twist and mash potato at school dance with white powder on floor to make it slippery
November 28th, 2009 at 7:06 am
@TwoFish, #839: The Hungry Ear is still there under different management. Sweetie and I know one of the owners (friend of a friend).
November 28th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Christmas shopping at AlaMo when I was a kid: we always parked on the Sears side of the mall and started out with a bag of hot cashews. Then we ended the night at Kenny's (outside) with plate lunches to take home for dinner.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:09 am
B&S Shave Ice (was it in Liliha?): they had the most amazing chocolate-flavored syrup. The ojiisan looked at me like I was a kakaroach when I asked him how he got that flavor, like I was going to steal the recipe!
November 28th, 2009 at 7:10 am
The Fabulous Krush.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Good Morning!
um, #871, what the heck was I thinking? I wasn't (thinking). Stevie Wonder? Hullo, it's Kool and the Gang! (I had a guuud night!)
>>>mimeograph machines (you could smell 'um just now couldn't you?)
November 28th, 2009 at 9:28 am
KAN: B&S Store is now owned by my friend and that's the one everyone talks about... Shimazu Store. Best shave ice in the world!
>>>going fishing with my daddy with my bamboo pole.
I miss my daddy.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
>>>my mommy's Strawberry Cheesecake.
Looking back, I think she had insomnia cuz we'd go to sleep at 10 or 11:00 and wake up the next morning and there'd be a Strawberry Cheesecake in the refrig.
Like magic!
(she did the same thing with beef stew)
I miss my mommy.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Permanent markers with f-u-m-e-s (stinky)!
November 28th, 2009 at 9:45 am
He was once a little green ball of clay
GUMBY!
You should see what Gumby can do today
GUMBY!
He can walk into any book with his pony pal Pokey too
If you've got a heart then Gumby's a part of you
November 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Ohhhhh Noooooooooooooooooooo! - Mr. Bill.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Girls twirling batons
November 28th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Keep on Truckin' T-shirts with the guy stepping forward.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Magic Mushroom design on shirts/tank tops.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Rolling Stone Tongue T-shirts.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:57 am
>>>picking Pakalana, trying not to get stung be the bees, and stringing them for May Day and Memorial Day lei.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Speidel ID bracelets for men, and women. . . Who's the greatest band leader, it's Speidel, Speidel.
and Speidel's Twist-O-Flex bands
November 28th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Sally - the pakalana vine I have no mo bees. OK, no mo honeybees (darn that mite), but the carpenter bees seem to like the flowers in the morning. This morning I watered the garden, got flowers, but maybe I was too late to see the bees.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Flick my Bic.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Drinking Mellow Yellow, and thinking it resembled urine.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Mr. Roger's Neighborhoood
November 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
PeeWee's Playhouse
November 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Pink Floyd's psychedelic music - OK, time to put some retro music on.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:19 am
@TwoFish: I got two resident carpenter bees in my back area around my plants. They scare me cuz it's also the area by my washing machine.
bzzzzzzz!
Here's one the gals can relate to:
>>>crinolines
uggh!
November 28th, 2009 at 10:30 am
TwoFish: you got 900!!!
Rod: WAKE UP! We're heading in for home stretch!
>>>in elem school we used to bring home the small Red Cross box to fill with items to donate like bar soap, toothpaste, bandaids, etc.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:34 am
>>>the 5th grade sex ed lesson. All the girls went to the cafeteria and watched a film and all the boys went to ... hey, just where DID they go... to learn about boy things.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:12 am
India Imports
November 28th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Fly High Brothers - across Piikoi from Ala Moana next to...
November 28th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Stone Free Waterbeds - next to Fly High Brothers
November 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am
@Nate re:876 my aunt was one of those buta kau kau "men". I remember waking up early in the morning to help her go to the restaurants and markets to p/u slop, also p/u'd the old bread and pastries from bakeries. To this day the smell and appearance of portuguese bean soup brings back memories... You never really appreciate how hard your elders worked.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Sung to "My dog has fleas"
Crossly for Govenor
With Mills for Harmony
November 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Those glass soda bottle with a marble in the tip of the bottle.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Pez candy and dispenser..
November 28th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Paper net to pickup gold fishes at carnivals/fair..
November 28th, 2009 at 11:33 am
skate boards with metal wheels....
November 28th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Electric voltage long sleeve shirts - bright pink, yellow and green.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Blue Key Club shirts in high school..
November 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
@ TwoFish, #886: your memory of the permanent markers reminded me of the old blue ditto masters. Stinky!
@ankles, #909: they still have the bottles with the glass marbles at the top - Ramune. I see 'em on the conveyor belt at Genki Sushi, among other places.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Kiyo's transmission...known for installing shift kits in automatic transmissions.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Selling gas by the litres since the gas pumps were limited to $0.999/gal. I think all of the pumps meters were mechanical at that time.
Some stations would just charge you double the amount on the pump to get around the limitation.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Even/odd days of selling gas....was it done by the last number of your plate
November 28th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Station wagons.....the only station wagon today is the Dodge Magnum...Volvo has one too I believe....Ford Taurus too maybee.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Tie dye t-shirts.....
November 28th, 2009 at 11:50 am
KAN:
Maybee I'll stop by Genki's to take a look at one. What was the purpose of the marble
In case it was knocked over it wouldn't spill 
November 28th, 2009 at 11:52 am
AM radio was the only option for audio when buying a car....no FM/cassette/8trk/cd/mp3.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I have a pin-on-button saying, "Win-a (then there is a smile) with Mina". I dunno who Mina is/was, or what the running was for - City Council?
November 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
teejay:
I'm gonna join you in the dark side......ASU is loooooosing to UA.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Fully metal scisors. No plastic handles.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
White Rain hairspray, lots and lots and lots of hairspray to make the girl's bouffant hairstyle stay after putting in curlers and teasing it up with rattail combs.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Sun In hair lightener...
November 28th, 2009 at 11:55 am
reel-to-reel players.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Someone mentioned taps for shoes....I remember the horse shoe shaped ones versus the quarter moon shape.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Chemistry sets for kids....I had one.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Erector sets....had one of these too.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Wooden tool boxes with the dowel across the top for a handle. The sides looked like an outline of a house to me.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Metal oil cans where you unscrewed the lid off the cylinder, filled it, and put the lid back on. There was a lever to squirt the lubricant out of the narrow spout.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
anklebiters - Sun In. . . if you weren't careful, you could end up orange blonde.
Yeah, back to the days of baby oil rubbed on and then laying down to worship the sun gods.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Crocheted string bikinis. Didn't they tend to hold a lot of water when coming out from swimming?
November 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
The first vacuum flourescent display "pocket" calcuator made by Sharp, sold for $395
November 28th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
#929 moderated...dreaded sh0es word !!
Someone mentioned taps for sh0es....I remember the horse sh0e shaped ones versus the quarter moon shape.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
@anklebiters #760: Thank you for that video of Arthur Brown singing "Fire"!
November 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
>>>peroxiding your hair to make like surfa sunstreaked hair. Except... for asian hair it would just turn kinda orangey. Same thing with Sun In that anklez mentioned.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I remember when my sons said, "Buy potato chips" I didn't have to ask, "What kind? What flavor?" Potato chips were just plain potato chips.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Coleman kerosene lanterns taken with us when we went camping. Had those little "socks" that had to be tied on, and pumping the bottom so that the pressure would force the gas up to light it with a match.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Sally - "rippa" hair was the term I knew it as. Had to have the technique down for flinging it out of the face too.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
People wearing roach clips in their hair, with the feathers hanging down.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
macrame belts, plant hangers, etc. with wooden beads.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I remember when Windward City used to have Easter eggs hunt for the kids on a grassy area in the back side of the shopping center. That grassy area is not there today.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Typing on a typewriter, trying to do a good job writing the paper that is due the next day. Have to find the center, and back space one, for each 2 character spaces.
Getting the keys stuck, and making mistakes. Having to erase it without making a hole in the paper, and then lining up so that what you type next was on the same line.
If you ran out of ribbon, rolling it backwards, because it was fabric ribbon and still had life in it.
And then when carbon paper was required, had to roll the paper up far enough to erase the 2nd sheet, and then make sure the erasure crumbs were cleared away or it would mess up the copy if caught between the 2 pages.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Pom pons on the low cut girl's socks to keep them up in the back.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I remember when schools had dress codes.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Baggies brand plastic bags, and the alligator mascot - because the bags were textured, I suppose like alligator skin.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
sally: I remember we used to wear not one but two or three crinoline slips under out skirts. What were we thinking???
November 28th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
"Palmolive softens hands while you do the dishes" - Madge the Manicurist.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
ooops...I meant under our skirts
November 28th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Just 50 more to get us over. Where is everyone else?
November 28th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
We will do Uncle Rod proud!
Heyyyy where is HE???? Out shopping?
November 28th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
>>>Sewing the matching bikini bottom for each dress you sewed. And, if you didn't, you'd wear your P.E. shorts. HOOO some sexy!
November 28th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass
November 28th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
The Baja Marimba Band
November 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
@midori-mm: THREE crinolines at a time? Your skirt would then have been sticking straight out! hahaha Those things were so itchy!
>>>black horn rimmed eyeglasses
November 28th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Way to go MLCers! We're almost there - with sally as the head cheerleader. Keep it going. I gotta head out for some errands (translation: shopping).
@TwoFish FTW!
November 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Barbarella, va va va voom!
November 28th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Jim Henson's Muppets, and more recent, singing on You Tube: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
>>>Hartfields at Ala Moana? Was so shame to be seen going into that store. That is, until one day, I saw the same top I just bought from Liberty House in there and it was wayyy cheaper.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Lava lamps
November 28th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Frisbee!
November 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
C'est Si Bon
November 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Women's body suits with wrap skirts, that spun up when they danced and twirled.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Sally, that reminded me of McInerny store. It eventually had Kron Chocolatier, which gave out samples.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
When postage stamps HAD to be moistened to affix.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
>>>Leeds $h0e Store w/ the salesmen that went to the Used Car Salesman School of Selling $h0es. Every time they brought out your requested footwear, they'd bring 3 matching purses. Not too subliminal were they?
November 28th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
>>>the Prell commercial where they dropped the pearl in the bottle and you'd see how thick and concentrated it was by the pearl taking a long slow sink to the bottom.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
>>>the other Prell commercial: "oops, I dropped it" "That's okay, it's the new, unbreakable tube"
November 28th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
>>>Trick or Treat for UNICEF. We eventually wanted candy for ourselves so, being the shortest one, was elected to act as the child. Friends put a mask on me and I went down the next block collecting "fuel" so we could go on collecting donations.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
>>>making "telephone" w/ 2 orange exchange cans and string. And yes, it worked! sort of.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Boot' & Kimo's since the new one opened, across at the coner now.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Orange Exchange cans with both ends cut off, and used as hair rollers with the large bobby pins. I thought that was hilarious.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Being hid, or hiding others in the back of the car, with blankets and other things piled atop, so that getting into the movie drive in was cheaper.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Craig's Bakery in Kailua, best bread pudding.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Plastic colored bead curtains for the doorway
November 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Sea Flight ferry.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
HC&D, now Ameron
November 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
The Ali'is
November 28th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Kailua Datsun, just before the bridge when you entered Kailua.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Ceasar's Pizza.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Going to the Foremost Plant in Kalihi and
watching them process milk and make ice cream
November 28th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
going crabbing off the old railroad bridges on Nimitz near the airport
November 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
6 cent popsicle's and 2 cent tootsie pop's, My dad used to give us a dime and then we could go buy ice cream. My brothers used to spend their dime on a single ice cream, I'd buy the 1 popsicle and 2 tootsie pop's = 10 cents.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Shep not elephant, shep doggie.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
And now there are no Star Supermarkets.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Kailua Drive Inn, where Agne's Bakery is now.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
There's no need to fear, underdag is here.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Oneawa Market, then Kailua Toyota, then Price Busters, then Kailua Hardware, and now Price Busters again.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Kailua library, the white two story building on your right just after the bridge.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
RBB - saving popsickle sticks for mixing expoxy or crafts, since parents never bought them. Actually, I don't know if they sold them in packs like they do now.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Waffle irons, that were not electric - you put the batter in a hot iron that was held over the stove burner, and then flipped it. Same like the sandwich press.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Swanee's feed and fishing supply on Beretania Street.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Polio vaccine on the sugar cube.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Dressmaker squares were common; dressmakers were common.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Commercial Motors on Keeaumoku & in Kailua.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Girls with diaries that had a small lock and looking for someone's key so that you could read it. Now, I think everyone posts what they are doing on social media, and no secrets anymore.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Cutest Uniforms on McCully and King
November 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Kern's pear nectar, with the narrow tear-drop tab opening.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Ooka's super market in Wailuku.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Wowzers!!!
November 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Drugstore photo booths where you closed the curtain, and sat on the stool or bench, dropped some coins in and it dispensed a strip of 4 B&W images.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
She wore an itsy bitsy, teenie weenie, yellow polka dot bikini.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Smallpox vaccination scar on the upper arm.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Tsubaki Okazuya on School street near Houghtailing
November 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Yasaiya-those trucks that came around like mobile mini marts
our neighborhood had Mr Inafuku, he would take cash or you could run a tab that he kept in a little notebook. Later opened Roberts Market on Houghtailing street up Alewa heights.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Hillcrest store on Houghtailing street, up Alewa heights used to be on the site where the only tall apartment building on that whole mountain is. Used to buy slingshots and those Sekiden pistols that shot those round wooden balls from there.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Fuller brush man...
Fabric sold from a truck...
manapua man..
November 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
washing clothes in the back yard over fire...
major starched jeans...
November 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
CONGRATS! 72view got the 1000!!! woot!
I never had a itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini. Mine was that annoying crochet one that took forever to dry and you had to walk home with "spots" in all the wrong places. ha!
>>>cinammon bread from Bill's Bakery Kapahulu.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Woohooo! Over 1000!
@ankles: I thought the marble in the Ramune bottle was just to make drinking a game - you have to hold the bottle just right to hold the marble so you can drink the soda.
@TwoFish: Sweetie saw that Muppets' version of "Bohemian Rhapsody." I hate the Queen version (!), but I loved the Muppets' version.
All the novelty/parody songs, like "Convoy," "Disco Duck," "Ahab the Arab," etc. Not to mention the older ones by Spike Jones ("Cocktails for Two") and Allan Sherman ("Hello Maddah, Hello Faddah.")
November 28th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
starched and ironed pillow cases...(yukky)
November 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
>>>using the Crown Royal bags for little purses
November 28th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
>>>walking to/from Waikiki Beach every single day of summer to go sliding on the limu covered wall.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
>>>using baby oil as suntan oil. We literally cooked ourselves. Totally regret doing that now.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
>>>how certain smells evoke memories. My friend used Sea n Ski sunscreen before running at Ala Moana Beach and the second I smelled it I said "Summer Fun!"
November 28th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
@sally re:1015 or a stash bag
November 28th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
W00t - MLCers are awesome! 1,000+ posts
I <3 you folks!
November 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
The Pearson Foundation...
November 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
@72view: whatchu wen' stash in the bag? ahanakokolele!
Rod: that was some fast shopping! What? nothing left after you bought everything yesterday? ha!
I wonder how many more we can get by Sun night? Go Team Go!
Sally>>>*jumping w/ green and yellow pom poms
November 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
>>>"why why chicken Y Y. 'as why."
*omg I hope it wasn't a kaimuki thing.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hawaiian Tropics - that was the sun tan oil to buy back then....
November 28th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
>>>when my brothers and the naughty boys down the street (C0hiba's friends) set fire to the keawe bushes next door and when the fire trucks arrived they threatened me not to tell or I going "haddit".
Mom didn't know it was them until he was 20+ yrs old.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
@sally re:1022 my knitting supplies for crocheting bikinis.
wap yo jaws.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
@72view #1021: evil place
>>>getting ready at 9pm to go out cuz the discos opened at 10pm.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
>>>calling a boy "fast"
Sally *going bocha and start getting ready for tonight's pah-tay. Excited to see anklez again and meet Ynaku IRL.
do i have time for a short nap? MLC
November 28th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
When Kawanankoa Inter burned down.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
When Kalakaua Inter burned down...eh sally dis wasn't your brother dem eh?
November 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
No, they weren't allowed to walk past Kapahulu Ave in elem school. hahaha!
>>>getting to keep the wooden hangers from King Kleaners.
*can't imagine what we owned that required dry cleaning.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
anklez: now you just care about the Hawaiian Tropics Bikini contest. ha!
>>>using blueing to make your percale sheets white
November 28th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
"Tan don't burn get a Coppertone tan"
November 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
>>>Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. Knock Knock!
November 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Copper Nickle's song "Come Run With Me"
over the local Toyota commercials.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Keep your mind on the highway,
keep your hands on the wheel,
keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead.
We're having fun, sitting in the backseat
hugging and a kissing with Fred.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
>>>the genius of Tim Conway / Harvey Korman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYzuchDBvCs
November 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
>>>thinking that the actual song title was Secret Asian Man
November 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Some gas stations had to set the pumps to half the price then multiply by two, when the pumps couldn't handle the higher prices
November 28th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Tiny Tim
November 28th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Love Thomas Motors on Kapiolani Blvd. the Porsche and Audi dealership.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Thayers Music downtown.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Sally:
The Swedish Bikini Team.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:22 am
So what gangie...2000?
Shishido Manju on Maui...closed in 2003
November 29th, 2009 at 12:51 am
@Sally...matching bikini bottoms....ha, ha! Harv said he remembered the color of mine in high school. I said, "hey, quit looking while I was bending down!" He said, "you weren't bending down." Bwahahahahaha!
November 29th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Thank you Rod and Shauna for another great night! To everyone for the laughs and for pretending not to notice that I don't know much about football. I do know that UH won! yayy! teejay must have been in a happy place tonight!
Mahalo anklez for the omiyage and glad to know you'll be back often. Ynaku: next time...
Great to see C0hiba too.
Honda si Boy: (been so long I forget how to write his name) where was he?
Creativ: More songs in store for you buddy!
Rod: You don't get to choose songs anymore. LOL
Hope everyone got home safely and sleeping soundly. I gotta "wind down" a bit more.
November 29th, 2009 at 2:02 am
@Supes: 2000?!? We can certainly try but this cheerleader is pooped. Uncle Rod is happy!
>>>Sydette Sakaue singing "There's Sunstar Banana and Sunstar Strawberry"... for the Sunstar toothpaste commercial.
*am I remembering this correctly?
November 29th, 2009 at 6:40 am
sassydog: #1040 I remember Tiny Tim with his ukulele singing Tiptoe Through the Tulips, too. And, I also remember Mrs. Miller singing Lovers Concerto. I thought it was hilarious. I used to look forward to Aku playing it on his morning show.
November 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am
J Akuhead Pupule - used to have Super Chicken on the radio show. I used to think that was funny - maybe that was the first I recognized a perverse sense of humor.
November 29th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Lancelot Link of the Agency to Prevent Evil. Anyone remember?
November 29th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Uh hmm, no Super Chicken was on Tarzan - Saturday Morning Cartoons. . . it was The Story Lady and The Chicken Man (He's everywhere! He's everywhere!) on J. Akuhead Pupule's show.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:28 am
TwoFish: ah, Aku. Wasn't he the highest-paid DJ in the nation at his peak? I remember listening to Emma Veary (then married to Aku, I think) on that show - what a voice she had. I hear that Emma's daughter, Robyn Kneubuhl (sp?), has an equally beautiful voice.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:32 am
@Sally, #1023: I don't know if it was a Kaimuki-only thing, but I've never heard that before in my life.
@TwoFish:
"When you find yourself in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger
When you think that you will take a lickin' (bokbokbokbokbok)
There is someone who can help you, who will come and rescue you
Just caaaaaaaaaaaaalllll for Super Chicken (bagaaaack!)"
vs.
"Chicken maaaaaaan (he's everywhere, he's everywhere!)"
November 29th, 2009 at 9:35 am
When Liberty House (and other department stores) used to have fabric departments. (Ducks in the Wind talked about this before.) When I worked at LH Ft. St. Mall, there were three wonderful ladies who worked in fabrics and notions. They taught me about work ethic and customer service. I think women's lingerie is in that spot now.
I dropped by LH when I was home at the end of September and recognized someone who was still working there - she looks exactly the same. She said that there was one other guy from the shoe department who was still there from about the same era when I worked there. Sigh.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Still recouping from last night's UH game. What a game! Glad I was there, this is one that will be talked about for years.
@ Kan looks like several MLC were former LH workers. Miss the candy, books, notions, electronics on 3rd flr Ala Moana. Remember Super, Safari, Rainbow sales? People used to line up outside the doors waiting to get in the store and traffic would be backed up onto Kapiolani getting to the shopping ctr.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:09 am
visitor: yes, it was a great game! And this coming from a non sports enthusiast. I'm glad that the only game I will probably watch this whole season was this one. (company was great too...that helped!)
anklez: Thank you for understanding my football watching method. Everybody go yayyy... I go yayyy! Everybody go awwww... I go awww. Half the time I didn't even know where the ball was. (no laugh NKHEA, you lost 'um one time too)
Told this story last night: Went to a LH Safari Sale once many moons ago. Was a rare day off on a Sat and I got there super early with all the other ladies at the entrance. The guy came to unlock the doors and then... something out of a movie. All the ladies screamed (yes, screamed!) and ran in the store!
ay yai yai
For a couple of seconds I couldn't move, I stood there drop jaw watching these ladies.
Never went early to a sale again.
Rod: that's still on-topic isn't it?
November 29th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I worked at LH Ala Moana, and put plenty stuff in will-call cuz I was shopping on my discount, sale time too. I used to love looking at those catalogs, and wondering how I could be modeling in it too. Thought maybe they got to keep the clothes they wore.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:22 am
You wouldn't have thought about buying bottled water.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:22 am
@sally - still on topic!
Anyone else besides me knows the song "Wicked Game"?
>>> Picking Jobe's Tears to make necklace. All the mokes wore them.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Sally & KAN:
kid asking adult (usu parents), "Why"?
Adult, not necessarily saying, "Because I said so.", says, "Why? Chicken wai wai". I always thought that was some kind of food dish. Maybe is, maybe isn't.
Maybe it's "generational" on the parents side.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:34 am
@Rod: You were a moke?
wicked game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oaHHrNQVrg
You keep practicing, I'm putting it in for you at next party
>>>getting a bee sting and rubbing mud all over it cuz Bev N. (my 4th gr BFF) said that's what Yogi Bear did.
Sally *mud don't work on bee stings
November 29th, 2009 at 11:43 am
>>>The Name Game
Rod Rod bo Bod
Bonana Fana Fo Fod
Mee My Mo Mod
ROD!
November 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@visitor & Two Fish: I was so glad I never worked at the LH AlaMo - first days of major sales were NUTS. You guys deserved medals (and hazard pay) for working sales there. I was a floater at LH when I was going to UH, but my usual department was linens - I liked that department.
Yup, I miss the candy department too. As far as I can tell, Macy's still sells Frangos, though.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
KAN: Frango Mints! I really like how they sold them in those "single serving" size gift boxes. bhahaha!
November 29th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I remember eating lunch at Woolworth's Ala Moana. I miss their cheesecake.
November 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
We almost forgot to say,
When newspapers used linotype machines!!!!!!!!!!!
November 29th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Rodney:
Wicked Games - by Chris Isaak and later by Him
I like the one by Him...you need to let your hair grow out longer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WA2jBMk-Pk
November 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Sally:
As long as you know when to cheer and aaaww, that's ok with me.
It was a bit beewildering watching the game in it's mirrored version. We had our backs to the TV but the wall we were facing is mirrored so we could watch the action. Just strange watching "Simon" (Moniz) throwing left handed...he did a good job thou
I wish I would be here for the Wisconsin game.
November 29th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
@anklez: but the U and the H looked okay.
I felt weird looking in the mirror, was like I was looking at the people at that table.
@Rod: I never heard that other version by HIM. I like it!
M/Masako: The Rum Cake is delish! Just had a piece. Okay...two pieces! I gotta go to my brother's house, hope I don't get a DUI. hahaha nah, it was actually perfect. Not too much, not too little. Jusssss right! Maybe if I ate more it would be Jusrighteh?
This was a great weekend. I feel so happy.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
LOL - Not like that! Like this:
Sally Sally Bo Bally
Banana Fana Fo Fally,
Fi Fo Mo Mally
Sally!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJLi5_dyn0
@anklebiters - That version of Wicked Game by HIM sounds like a modern day David Bowie.
btw, that was the first and last time you folks ever going hear me karaoke.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
@anklebiters - I heard the UH-Wisconsin game will be televised on ESPN2. Although you won't be here, you can still watch it. (I think).
I was great to see you again. And as always, thanks for the omiyage.
I think your visits are starting to become a tradition.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
To everyone who posted: Thank you! You folks brought back some great memories - and gave me a lot of ideas for future blog entries
And sally for cheering us on. I don't want to start naming posters who've made great contributions - for fear of leaving one or two out - but you know who you are. And I really appreciate it.
And to the MLCers that are more comfortable just reading rather than posting, I hope the posts brought back some happy memories of the olden days.
I hope everyone had a fun and safe Thanksgiving holiday weekend. And now ON TO CHRISTMAS!
November 29th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
@ Kan - Yep, first day of major sale was crazy, but the worse was the day after Christmas. People came by the "thousands" to get the 50% off Christmas items and exchanging and returning.
@ Sally - Frango Mints, the round cartons were stacked for the display. Glad you saw last night's game. I think it will be one that people will talk about for a long time like the first win over BYU and the overtime win over Fresno St.
Back on topic: Monogram and Revell plastic models of airplanes and ships.
Daisy BB rifle.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Rodney:
Here's another version by Him. MayBEE we can have the musketeers do the pole dance while you sing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5UjmxemXY
It's always a pleasure to meet up with the Triads every six months. Unless something changes, I'll be back in May again.
I have ESPN2 so I'll be able to watch the game Saturday. I may have to put up mirrors on my wall so I'll be comfortable watching Moniz throw left handed again
November 29th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Rodney:
You'll have to sing this to Aunty Paula at the next get together....I think you'll be just as good as Chris de Burgh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejxFeS47OZ8
This song will forever be one of my favorites.....met my GF at the airport for the first time...she came out of the jetway wearing a red dress and this song was playing ....
November 29th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Nope, no more singing for me. M, Masako, NaPueo and sally had a rare treat. Okay, not a treat. They just tolerated. LOL.
I told Paula that with Sally, the sounded like the Three Degrees. She said "who dat?". I was thinking of this Three Degrees song:
http://www.imeem.com/garcias034/music/H0wIep7V/three-degrees-i-do-take-you/
November 29th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Remember when this was your chance to slow dance?
Sleepwalk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_fdnTR8zbI
November 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
And then if opso was there he would have sang White Wedding again.
Hey Rod, this was a great blog topic, evoked a whole bunch of guuuud memories! Thanks!
Thank you Paula for letting me sing with you. People who sing good don't usually like it when others join in but it's fun! She cracks me up! Poor thing though, I hope her allergy is better.
btw, you forgot to sing me the teru-teru bozu song.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Rodney:
The girls were lucky the video didn't turn out too well on my digital camera
But that song needs a man's voice too
We should pump you up with more caffeine 
November 29th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
We gotta have a karaoke outing!
>>> Company picnics at Kalama beach.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
>>> Japanese school or club picnics.
Where the prizes were: 1 box of pencils or 6 rolls of toilet paper or 1 box of tin foil or a tin of Ajinomoto. Grand prize - a Panasonic stand up fan.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Whoa - I was looking for that song. I thought it was from Endless Summer.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
@Rod: Krazy Karaoke Young St. BYOB / BYOfuud. Ya got my attn!
Sleepwalk: Harvey (Kingpins) plays that song and so does Milton (Wasabi), it's guitar with sexy soul.
are we still playing? k-den
>>>ame candy and cracker jacks when they had 'real toys' in them, not stickers or cheapie paper stuff. Had sponge toys, metal clickie things... I wish I had kept all of them. I used to line up all those spongie toys on my dresser.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
>>>Endless Summer! One of my fave all time movies. Those two guys still makes me laugh.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Good night people, had a most fulfilling Thanksgiving weekend. I gonna sleep guuuud tonight.
Thanks for the friendship!
November 29th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
dangit...moderation. oh well.
Oyasumi.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:05 am
@2fish-- Henry J. Henhouse III.
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
76 was great as the attendants were called minutemen and had to give u service within a minute of pulling into the station. Another popular station was Flying A which later turned to phillips 66. But my dad used to always fill up at Shell with the full service.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:21 am
Businesses gave "free" stuff as a way to advertise. Nowadays they expect you to pay to do the advertising for them. Auwe!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
@appagom re: Axelrod the Basset Hound from the Flying A commercials "at Flying A, ooh do we worry"
You always get the finest,
the very best the finest
at the sign of the 76.
It's orange and blue,
so look for that Union
sign of the finest,
sign of the 76.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
B A ba
B E be
B I bici bi
B O bo
bici bi bo
B U bu
bici bi bo bu
nyuk nyuk nyuk!
December 5th, 2009 at 12:08 am
The Third Floor Restaurant with huge wicker chairs and the bonbons at the end of the meal in a bowl with dry ice underneath.