Hawaiiboy (Randy)
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
I was poking around as I often do, and came across a survey of Hawaii Sugars Mills by the Territory of Hawaii in 1919. The diagram is of the Kohala Mill, with a photo from the same era as a well as a diagram of the location of all of the Hawaii Island sugar mills. Yes, there was a sugar mill in Kona
The 1920 photo of Wapi`o is almost in the same place I tok one last week, but you can see Maui in the old one. Too hazy when we were there.
The more OpEds, letters and other stories that I read in Hawaiian newspapers from 1893 in the weeks and months following the overthrow, the more heartbreaking it is. Family and community groups were town apart over choosing which side to be on.
The Honoli`i gulch 1892. sure doesn't look like that now. It's Hilo's prime surf spot and a popular beach park.
Waimea Fall 1940 and last week. That's how I remember it when we were kids. We would climb on the rocks, float down to the next pond. When we were there last week, everyone in the pool was required to have a life vest and climbing the rocks was strictly prohibited.
Kaka`ako, Downtown Honolulu and Harbor from the slopes of Punchbowl- approx 1905. Iolani Palace is clearly visible.
A before and after cleaning up 1890. looking mauka from Hilo Kaipalaoa Landing
West Hawaii looking South from approx Keauhou 1935 towards Honaunau. A whole lot nothing
The S.S. Kilauea Hou was an iconic 19th-century passenger and freight steamer built in Honolulu in 1878 for Wilder's Steamship Company. She is a famous piece of Hawaiian maritime history, known for her inter-island routes and VIP coastal tours. Wreck of the "Kilauea Hou" at Hilo Bay, December 1901.
This is a pretty amazing glass plate photo from 1880. Guys pulling net in the foreground with fish baskets on the beach, a boat at Kaipalaoa Landing. A four-mast ship in the bay. The Honoli`i Sugar Mill can be seen in the background.
Railway on Hilo bay (1910), fronting Mooheau Park. This set of tracks connected with the Hamakau Line going up the coast and with the Puna RR going south. The Iron (singing) bridge was a railroad bridge. This section of railroad was wiped out in the 1946 Tsunami and never replaced.
We went to South Point to see the surf. 2 hour drive from Kona. Not easy, but worth it.
3 Filipino engineers doing this entire operation in Tagalog. It’s entertaining
Look how wide the Hilo bay beach was in the late 1800s. The Breakwater wasn't there till 1910-30. This wide beach kept the big waves from going mauka.
Hawaiians pounding poi in front of grass house in Puna, Hawaii; ca. 1890
I’m usually up at 3:30 am for work. The best I can muster on a day off is 4:15am.
Kohala Railroad, Hawaiian Railroad Company Locomotive #1, "Kinau" at Mahukona
I put my glasses on a wash cloth when I took a shower. I felt like I being watched.
My wife got these beauties from Olu Kai. I so old, I have dress slippers.
I still like to thumb through a magazine. My favorite digital reading app was Zite. It got gobbled up a long time ago.
Google maps still shows the Keauhou Beach Hotel. It was demolished in 2018.
I could spend my retirement sitting on the beach right here in Puako.