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A slice of history in accessing Hawaii public records

August 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · History, Sunshine

Prompted by the recent post here regarding the changing times, as evidenced by the online availability of judicial financial disclosures, Tim DeVault emailed this first-person account from an earlier era of public access. Especially enlightening was his final vignette describing the arbitrary roadblocks that were eliminated when his bureaucratic nemesis decided that he qualified as [...]

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Amazing movie of VJ Day in Honolulu (1945)

August 22nd, 2010 · 11 Comments · History

This digitally redone movie is just outstanding. Somne of the scenes of Honolulu 65 years ago look like they could have been taken last week. Amazing! Notice the ubiquitous trolley tracks, the Advertiser Building, what appear to be single family homes on Kalakaua Avenue across from the Moana Hotel, etc. VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August [...]

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“Tarzan” Smith paddled a surfboard to Kauai in October 1940

August 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · History, John Lind Collection

–>View the photos and news clippings about Gene “Tarzan” Smith In 1940, Gene “Tarzan” Smith paddled a surfboard from Oahu to the island of Kauai. The event was sponsored by the Hawaii Surfing Association which had been formed just a year earlier. When the Waikiki Surf Club was formed in 1947, Smith became its first [...]

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More from my dad’s files: Duke, Dad Center, and a day at Makapuu in 1953

August 19th, 2010 · 7 Comments · History, John Lind Collection

–> See today’s full photo gallery. On Sunday, August 16, 1953, the Waikiki Surf Club sponsored the first body surfing championships held in Hawaii since the beginning of World War II. In addition to the body surfing competition, the day included a demonstration by the Hawaii Surf Life Saving Association “featuring the surf-life saving reel [...]

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Waikiki Surf Club: Christmas Day, December 25, 1948

August 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments · History, John Lind Collection

The Waikiki Surf Club was just a year old when they put on a winter event featuring a six-mile surfboard race that sent paddlers from Waikiki out around Diamond Head and back. The winners of that inaugural race posed for this photo. It’s just one of several photos from that long ago Christmas that I [...]

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A political aside: Poker with the governor

August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Campaigns, History, Politics

Last night’s Island Insights on PBS Hawaii featured a good discussion of the current campaign season. Richard Borreca, political reporter for the Star-Advertiser and now perhaps the senior political writer among the current crop of reporters, had a couple of very good points that I jotted down. Republicans have fielded candidates in almost every race, [...]

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Woodworker Abel Gomes credited with making early surfboards, canoe paddles

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · History

I received an email this week looking for additional photos or information about Abel Gomes, a 20th century cabinet maker and woodworker who became a well-known surfboard shaper, and his son, Allan Gomes, a well-known surfboard maker in his own right. Along with the note came three photographs. Click on any photo for a larger [...]

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Hawaii surfing and paddling championship held in June 1943

August 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · History, John Lind Collection

In June 1943, a surfing and paddling competition was held in Waikiki, sponsored by the Hawaii Surfing Association, along with the Outrigger Canoe Club and the Honolulu Junior Chamber of Commerce. Martial law was still in effect and barbed wire was strung out along parts of Waikiki Beach. A few photographs of the event, and [...]

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