Hilo, Hanapēpē Town & Pā‘ia (1988)

[@danceswithsticks]

We moved to Hilo in 1963, I was 3. I’m so lucky to have grown up in Hawai’i back in the day!! It was truly wholesome!

[@theodorejay1046]

Love Hawaiian old towns. Given that we've lost a gem like Lahaina it just makes these towns left even more special.

[@bananashaveice]

Love this! Please share more of your classics programming! Mahalo!

[@hideo96744]

10:33 that’s a gem of a Toyota right there.

[@chrisSea1346]

I thought the same thing! 🤙🏽

[@FCT8306onTwoWheels]

super sweet truck

[@FrankC321]

What a blast from the past. Great reply of the story. Very genuine and special.

[@dv1216]

When I moved from Oahu to Maui 35 years ago I moved to Wailuku. It wasn’t Waikiki but I loved it. Living in Kihei (bought a house) for the last 31 years is boring 🌺

[@sousay2000]

Boring is a great way to live. Keep outta trouble

[@schreds]

wow thanks for the memories ,, from eating at the old Koloa Broiler all u could eat salad bar and burger and cruising through Hanapepe on the way to surf Polihale too getting coffee at the coffee gallery when it first opened in haleiwa ( had the bird store right next door miss u popcorn ) i was working for Bill barnfield ( raging Isle) to seeing old hilo town hanging in Keaukaha with friends and family ,, tragically a time long gone and a project that just didn't work for Hilo lets just call it politics ,,

[@lgv3051]

Wow! I remember when they built that marketplace in haleiwa when i was a kid. I just moved from haleiwa to mililani. How things have changed. There is more Hawaii in mililani these days than there is in haleiwa. Funniest thing of all, i would have never expected it. When i run errands around mililani, i run into so many people who used to live on the north shore that i hadn't seen for years. Most local people on the north shore avoid haleiwa town like they avoid Honolulu.

[@acharles3374]

Anything to go with Hawaii I am in...

[@alohalaniboido8083]

Eric Moir nails it. That's how I feel when I walk through my hometown of Koloa.

[@HiloBoiz808]

2022,Hilo still a classic town.Sadly homelessness is compromising it.

[@teresatrigiani7838]

Homeless desparate and need help, but really it is hard on hilo busineses from what i saw.

[@martikomoody1172]

Don't blame people blame yourself

[@Malama_Ki]

People keep voting for the same poison and wonder why they stay sick. The justice system is an injustice

[@Kevin-rb7yy]

Hey Mike remember the Grove Restaurant? I used to work there after iniki. Too bad had close down. Man that was a long time ago.

[@Waynes-xt9gr]

About a month ago, I visited Maui and did an overnighter at one of the hostels there in Wailuku town....price was CHEAP! Hotels in Kahului were just out of my pocket :(. Traffic is not as busy on the weekend as it is on weekday.

[@narcovice]

hey the old laundromat on market street

[@its-all-good]

20:46 ---- she seemed like such a sweet woman... so sad what money does to people: The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the Wailuku Main Street Association and has interviewed its longtime director Jocelyn Perreira. The AG's office says that two-thirds of the Wailuku charity's taxpayer-funded grant money goes to salaries and not to program services. It is recommending that the board terminate Perreira. "There's little evidence of actual program services by the WMSA in the last two years," Deputy Attorney General Hugh Jones said in a letter to the association's board last week. Perreira declined comment.

[@tiffanyclay54]

❤

[@jusbamathy1355]

🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@tjplaceholder8183]

Man, old folks LOVE to go on about how everything was so grand when they were younger. It's all ruined now !!! 😂 Yup, everthing has been awful for decades, and forget the tourism we want poverty instead!! 🤨

[@rental808]

Thank you Mrs. Hanabata 😂

[@jaymo8206]

None of the planning stuff worked out for the working class. I lived on the Big Island and the Main St Association program was DOA. Hawaii is not affordable, especially housing. Finally couldnt afford paradise and had to leave. Fortunately, I found someplace far away from America that my family calls+feels at home.

[@beachrose88]

But look. Hawaii SOLD IT SOUL AND Only CARES NOW ABOUT RICH, TOURISTS, RICH TOURISTS AND YOU SOLD YOUR SOUL . YOU DID IT TO YOURSELVES

[@ken1per]

Dumb comment So generalized and nonspecific so as to be worthless

[@kahilewa9640]

Hawaii did not sell its own soul. Greedy opportunists did. The people and culture of Hawaii have been held hostage in their own home since way way back when. Read a book - just make sure it’s not one they wrote.

[@kahilewa9640]

Honestly what an ignorant, entitled, and uneducated assessment.

[@libertine40]

​@@kahilewa9640 And there you have it! Just like Puerto Rico and Alaska - and all the other places destroyed by colonialist theft. It's heinous insanity and sociopathic greed. ---------

[@MultiPetercool]

The overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani is as disgusting a piece of US history as the Cherokee Trail of tears and the plantation/slave system that preceded it. Hawaii was stolen from its people. Sanford Dole was despicable human being.

[@river4462]

Perreira a total joke