HAWAII IN THE 1940s HAWAII LEI DAY HONOLULU 34384

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  • @howellwong11
    @howellwong11 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is the Hawaii I remember, although not much was shown. Outside of Honolulu was all country side with mostly pineapple and sugar cane taking up the spaces. I spent age 8 to 17 in Honolulu during the Forties . On Lei Day which is May first, we wore our best aloha shirt to school. Waikiki had only the Royal Hawaiian, Moana and Surf Rider. I left Hawaii for my final two years of college in 1953. I returned two years later and couldn't recognize Waikiki with all the new hotels. Hawaii had changed so I left Hawaii permanently.

    • @NostaIgiaJunkie
      @NostaIgiaJunkie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same thing happened to South Fl with all the snowbirds going south for retirement and vacation. It used to be a beautiful tropical paradise. Now we're living on top of each other in condos and sky rises

    • @Subiwu
      @Subiwu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      U still alive?

    • @howell7136
      @howell7136 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Subiwu I must be, since I was writing it. I'm 92 years old now.

    • @FadeintotheShadows
      @FadeintotheShadows 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for this account. What was it liken driving on Oahu before the creation of the H1 and H3 highways? I have lived in Hawaii since 2002.

    • @howell7136
      @howell7136 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@FadeintotheShadows I drove up the tropical Pali Road with the smell of white ginger then down the winding road to Kailua. The valley where H3 goes up was uninhabited.

  • @howellwong11
    @howellwong11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In the 1940's, we all wore leis to school on May 1 (Lei Day). We usually have an assembly with hula dancers. Those were the days, when we made our own leis. I used to go down to the mangrove swamps of Kalihi Stream and pick some sweet smelling flowers for my lei. Most had plumeria picked from their yards or more commonly, their neighbor's yard.

  • @lindac6919
    @lindac6919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I enjoy that the film mentions the Law of the Splintered Paddle. Today is May 1st, 2020. COVID19 Lockdown. The first Lei Day that I can't go to the Farmers Market and wear a Lei. No farmers, no market. Everyone please stay safe, stay well, and we'll see you on the other side of the 2nd wave!

  • @stanthesteelguitarman8228
    @stanthesteelguitarman8228 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A carefree world in "dreamland", accompanied by some lovely music of the era, by Lani McIntire's Hawaiians, with the iconic recording of Andy Iona's "How'd Ya Do" included. Filmed in the late 1940s, just after the 2nd World War I would guess? Very much enjoyed - what a backward step from this in the world of today.

  • @djsi38t
    @djsi38t 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you just imagine for a moment..........ZAP and you're back in time on Oahu in the 1940's.Wow,all I can say is wow what an absolutely amazing thing that would be.

    • @ericseabury3968
      @ericseabury3968 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would do almost anything to go back to this time in Hawai’i, when it was a true paradise.

    • @howell7136
      @howell7136 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hawaii started off with a bang to start the 1940 decade.

  • @kbbjedi
    @kbbjedi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “ Five thousand foot cliff” lol the tallest mountain on Oahu is only 4,000 feet tall. That area the Pali lookout is roughly 1,000 feet. Still a beautiful view and solemn place though.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This film was shot in 1946. Strangely, from 3:08 through 3:57, the shots of a garden and close-ups of flowers are NOT in Hawaii.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you think it was not shot in Hawaii?

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Because the flowers are all grown in the temperate zones in the summer, and because the garden in the first shot was not in Hawaii in the 1940s.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting theory. It seems possible but unlikely that the producers would have included footage not shot in Hawaii, in the midst of a movie about Hawaii. When you say "the garden in the first shot was not in Hawaii in the 1940s" are you saying it came to Hawaii later on?

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There never have been flower gardens / flower beds in public parks in Hawaii which looked like the one in the first shot. It's not odd that the filmmaker would use some existing footage of flowers that was shot elsewhere, as a lead-in to the lei sellers and scenes of Lei Day. Only someone like me would notice or care that there was a discrepancy.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, but you are also assuming that this was shot in a "public park". It might have been someone's private garden. Well, we'll never know. Thanks for your comment.

  • @pattiray47
    @pattiray47 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    yes

  • @ericseabury3968
    @ericseabury3968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hawai’i in better days. 😢

    • @anagonyaowusu3119
      @anagonyaowusu3119 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      weren't jim crow laws a thing back then...?

    • @FadeintotheShadows
      @FadeintotheShadows 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anagonyaowusu3119 Not in what was the Territory and now the State of Hawaii. It didn't apply here. You couldn't enforce laws like that in a naturally diverse location like Hawaii. And this isn't a Southern state.

  • @panoptos4163
    @panoptos4163 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Anybody able to gather precisely when in the 40s this video was filmed? I didn’t see barbed wire on beach so I am assuming post-WW2? What do people think?

    • @FadeintotheShadows
      @FadeintotheShadows 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good question. It's gotta be before December 7th 1941. There is a US Army soldier with the 101 Airborne Division in this footage. The US didn't declare war on the Axis powers yet, otherwise he would have shipped out to Europe.

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was filmed in 1946. The original dining room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel is visible at 1:48, which was demolished that year. The passing white pickup truck near the Blowhole at 9:47 has a black on white 1946 Hawaii license plate.

    • @panoptos4163
      @panoptos4163 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hebneh Wow. Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for that, I really appreicate it.

    • @FadeintotheShadows
      @FadeintotheShadows 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hebneh I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.

  • @JewMonGee
    @JewMonGee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i blame the city county & state of hawaii for destroying honolulu and destroying oahu and turning oahu into NEW YORK City & LA, California

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes it is tragic to watch these films and see "what was" versus "what is".

  • @ΔημήτρηςΓαβαλάς
    @ΔημήτρηςΓαβαλάς 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Propaganda of the 1940s