Family Sojourn In Hawaii, 1957

[@AuntyLaniLee]

I graduated from Roosevelt High School in Honolulu in 1957. Stunning to see the islands again as they used to be, especially Kona, where my family now resides. It's quite different now, but there is no place else on earth that I would rather be! Mahalo!

[@guyfujii3204]

Aunty Lani Lee. Howzit! I’m class of ‘89 go rough riders🙌🤙 I also moved to Kona and I love it

[@richarddowney1972]

I was there in 1959on Air Force R&R. Hotels few condos. Wonderful.

[@premiumblue1637]

The islands back then were so much more enchanting than today. Too many people and too much concrete makes us miss the old days

[@tommythompsonsurfer]

WE ALL CAN NOT GO HOME.....ALL THINGS FAD AWAY.....SAD

[@risk5riskmks93]

This is when my grandparents, mother and aunts lived here.

[@lohphat]

My mom was born in Hilo in 1935 and had already left for college in the early 50s, my grandparents were still there though. Hilo really hasn't changed much.

[@hotsand4u]

Aloha from Hilo, yes it hasn't changed much, but the problem of Ice, drugs have killed our Island..

[@AuntyLaniLee]

@@hotsand4u That's true. The second largest city in the state is crippled with drugs and crime. We live in Kona and love it. It's more like the old days, I hate going to Honolulu!

[@TheGreg7664]

Great place to grow-up in....Hawaii Rocks!!!

[@COMMANDOF4F4]

I NEVER KNEW IN MY LIFE THAT I WOULD END UP LIVING HERE IN HAWAII NOW, FOR 9 1/2 YEARS SO FAR. LIFE IS FUNNY.

[@hotsand4u]

Aloha Honokaa, had my first child in Honokaa some 45 years ago, Hilo in the house..

[@msKepola1]

That could have been my family! We went in August of 1959 and got to celebrate Statehood!!! I went back in 1966 for my senior year in HS at James B. Castle High School and graduated with Honors June 10, 1967.I lived with my Hawaiian family, Aunty Lei,her children; Warren, Lydia, Glen Paul Dennison, Aunty Bobbie Halas and her daughter Dail (named after my Uncle Dale Dennison), one my dad's brothers who was married to my Hawaiian Aunty Lei. We lived with my Aunty Lei's parents in Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii(there 10 of us in a 3 bedroom house! Later in the year moved to my Aunty's brother's home, Uncle George Halas and his family. (He was a "celebrity---He played the motorcycle cop in Elvis Presley's movie "Blue Hawaii"!!! I visited two more time in the 90's and finally moved there in 1997 and in '98 started the remainder of my education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where I earned my Bachelor's degree in Ethnic Studies and my Master's degree in Library and Information Science (which makes me a Librarian) Ya, me---a librarian!!! I got an on-line job as a Reference Librarian for Troy University in Troy, Alabama in 2005 and as of January of 2015, I have worked for them part-time for over 10 years! I left Hawaii in 2008 and after a few moves from Phoenix to Rimrock, AZ to Austin, Texas, I ended up living with my son and his family here in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (from hot to cold!!!) This really makes me miss Hawaii!!!

[@GulfIslandRock]

Aloha 🌺🤙🏼

[@dh2360]

This video is a treasure, thank you for sharing!

[@napili5470]

WOW, 1957 I was still living in Waimanalo. My how times fly.

[@howellwong11]

We started a farm in Waimanalo in 1947. We had to clear the land of sugar cane.

[@lesterbrandt3203]

Kona still looked like that in 1966. Hard to watch Kalapana get eaten by lava, it was so beautiful. What you scoff at now will be a delightful memory.

[@0818andy]

A kindlier, simplier time...wish some of those times could be re-lived.

[@jamesgonda3785]

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[@Religious_man]

If the world did not know how to lie then, then yes. I wish the same thing.

[@rapman5791]

Emma says “WOW!!”

[@BlueCollarTraveler]

Wow! No more Aloha Airlines. No more camera ports on airline windows. No more smoking on airlines (woowhoo!). No more Coco Palms on Kauai (I liked the way the announcer mis-pronounced that island name). No more Kalapana black sand beach (that's too bad - it looked cool in this video). How about that dirt road in this video at the Hanalei Valley Scenic Lookout? The tunnel on Hwy 30 going towards Lahaina on Maui still looks the same today as it did in this video but the road is MUCH wider.

[@888rlau]

Tim W

[@hotsand4u]

yes the lava took our beloved black sands beach, but she is giving us new beaches as I type, can you believe those holes in the plane? lol

[@5DNRG]

My grandparents brought me a vial of the black sand from their visit in the '60s....sad it has changed so much.

[@hotsand4u]

@@5DNRG I would never have the sand from the Islands, bad JuJu for you and yours if you live on the mainland..

[@hebneh]

Mr. Fitzpatrick was doing his travelogues - or, as he called them, "Travel Talks" - just the same way he'd done them in the 1930s for MGM, with his unique over-emphasized narration and bizarre background music.

[@jaymo8206]

I was a kamaina for 17+ years on the Big Island, 80's-2005. Ive seen it change a lot due to humans and Pele. I still love Hawaii but the high cost of living drove me out. Now I live in an affordable but 3rd world Asian country. Also most of my old spots and residential area,Leilani Estates. in Puna have been forever covered by lava. My son still lives there. I miss the Big Island but...too much hoo hoo. Hope the Chinese stay away cause I see how most make terrible tourists in Asia. I'll love you forever Hawaii Nei!

[@hotsand4u]

Aloha Jay, we miss ya here, yes a lot of changes from Madam Pele, but we are getting new beaches, our crime rate is high due to the love of Ice, which is really sad.. I myself have been here sine 73 and there is no other place for me...

[@AlohaYeshua]

WOw WoW SO SO BEAUTIFUL KE AKUA ABBA FATHER

[@kuikelly6646]

2020' 😎 Re visiting 🌴

[@rickiechang5748]

Territorial Days...

[@joeguzman3558]

Beutiful

[@CushionOfWealth]

3:29 ... Argyroxiphium sandwicense ... Well I never knew that !

[@CushionOfWealth]

5:49 ... He's handsome !

[@GulfIslandRock]

Aloha

[@goombabear]

Me too

[@bobbortfeld2929]

Fun video, but lots of errors in the narrative. Many already pointed out in comments. The one that strikes home for me occurs about 17:26 in the video. I was jolted! He talked about the story of two lovers (a Japanese girl and her Portuguese lover) whose parents would not let them marry so they formed a suicide pact and jumped into the volcano! I KID YOU NOT! He goes on to say that the grieving father of the girl hung from cables and brought up the bodies! Talk about either getting it totally wrong ... or using a lot of sales poetic license. The girl was Portuguese (my cousin Margaret Enos 16) who was murdered by a young man (Sylvester Nunes 22) who was infatuated with her & whom she did not want to marry. So he murdered her then committed suicide by jumping into the crater after her body. The man who brought up the bodies was not her father, rather a brave local Japanese man. Nothing romantic ... a tragedy!

[@hotsand4u]

wow, was wondering why I had never heard this story, nice to know the true story, Mahalo and Aloha from Hilo..

[@jwilson5033965549]

God... I would love to go back to this time.....a time before the sewer pipe was opened called the middle to late 1960's....all the weirdos were all in the closet and hadn't come out yet...oh God take me back!

[@johnsumner6185]

10:26 'We've begun to feel like native Hawaiians". Sure they flew around in DC-3's and lived life like they were on a 1950's vacation for centuries!

[@gregcarter8656]

Yeah, but it's not meant literally. It's an old timey expression, used by visitors, meaning that they are beginning to get used to Hawaii, and the local folks are making them feel like family. It expresses gratitude, and it's a compliment to local hospitality. Nowadays, some "language police" (I don't mean you) are overly hyper sensitive.

[@QED_]

@@gregcarter8656 Of course . . .

[@QED_]

6:07 Is that you there . . . Connie Woyciesjes (?)

[@Molokai17]

wot?! how come no mo moloka'i?

[@charlesm.9858]

I was watching this video.. and it shows they are going though a tunnel.. that goes to Lahaina..not to Haleakala lol!! Nice try. It’s cool to see what the island looked like back before I was born in 68.

[@Arnot517]

Announcer does not even bother to pronounce the Island names properly.

[@glebsokolov8016]

3:00 Zig Haile

[@bighawaiianpunch3534]

Ew haole aole