My dad was navy so we got there in '59 when I was 8 and left in '63, I only got back in 2007 and it was different, the Dole Pineapple structure was gone and so many wild places were filled up with homes etc. We lived by the Bloch arena Pearl Harbor area, when I got back the same monkey pod tree that I spent tons of time in was still there and the smell of that small area brought back instant memories, it was truly remarkable to reconnect w/ my parents just from a smell. I used to dream of that area, I had a nice uke and lots of playmates. My husband was part tahitian and told me his uncle had a prominent last name and I found his name on a travel brochure on the plane. I wanted to live there and had the money, but my inner voice said I'd miss my son, so I stayed here in Utah instead back in 2007, my friend had a friend that lived there and they had a room mate for me etc. It's so cold here, but my tiny family is here so I stay put.
Greed destroyed Oahu. The same is now taking place in Maui. I pray that Kauai and Da Big Island stay true to Hawaii and maybe Oahu and Maui will revert back to its pureness.
That last scene in the video was a prophetic one, about the two million visitors. Before the Pandemic, seven million tourists visited Hawai’i. Aloha 🤙🏼
I left Hawaii in 1953 to complete my last two years in college. Waikiki had only four hotels if you include the Halekulani. When I return in 1955. it was wall to wall hotels. I left never to return.
When you truly watch this Movie, you can get a true understanding how perfect and nice Honolulu, & Hilo, and the outer Islands were just perfect the way they were!! If they only could have put a Hight Restriction on the High Rise Buildings then we might have still had a perfect Place today! No the Greed of the developer's to Just Build, Build & Build only to make money.....$$$$$... thats all the could See -Sad , Sad, Sad... Boy do I miss how it was when I was there as a Boy.......
So much has changed in Hawai’i, and (largely) not for the better. But it’s easy to forget that, compared to earlier times, Hawai’i had already experienced dramatic changes by 1969. History tends to play that trick upon us, especially when we look at these “snapshot” moments. Nostalgia also plays a role in how we view the Past. A person with firsthand memories will see the Past differently than someone born years later. There’s so much to take apart in this video: the butchered pronunciations, the over generalizations, the Americanism, the whiteness, gender, you name it. In 2021, you don’t need a PhD to see that this “travelogue” is a dated and stereotypical view of Hawai’i from the “haole” perspective. But I think this says more about our own time than it says about the Past. Hawai’i has changed. It will always keep changing. And we can never go back to the way things were. We chart a different course. Aloha 🙏🏼🤙🏼
It’s kinda crazy that this film was made 4 years before I was born, and those opening shots of Waikiki don’t look all that different from now. People can say what they want, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world. If I could move to 1 city...it would be to move to Hilo, on the Big Island. That’s my all-time favourite city, period. 😁
That's the way Oahu looked when I lived there. We arrived in 65' , left in 68' then returned for 2 years. Dad was Air Force. I have seen recent videos of Honolulu and it's hard to recognize it. I hate to see all the skyscrapers taking over for a view of Diamond Head. The man doing the talking on this film mispronounced many of the names of the Hawaiian locations and landmarks.
Back when Ala Moana Center was for the locals, and not flooded with tourists. Was born there in '93. It didn't get to be the shit hole it is now till about 2003. I'd give anything to leave, despite spending all my life living here.
whenever I've gone back, most recently was '99 before that was working at the Airport ramp '93 and lots before that, but I never seem to get caught up in the hustle 'n bustle you know? I'm so layed back it borders on comatose LOL I just do my thing, eat cheap, get a bus pass and trip around hehehe
I was born 4 years after this film was made, and save 4 years that I lived in California, I’ve been here...and I live smack dab in the middle of Honolulu, just 1.5 miles from Waikiki and I’m practically next to the University of Hawai’i...and I still don’t get caught up in the hustle ‘n bustle. I don’t quite get what people mean by that...other than the traffic, everyday existence is so much slower and more laid back than even living in Fresno, CA. I was fortunate that our parents had good foresight, ‘cause I don’t know how people afford to live here...that’s the only thing about living in Hawai’i. Back in 1960, our parents bought a duplex (3-bedroom/1-bath on top, and 2-bed/1-bath on bot; completely separate units) in Kaimuki for $50K...and their whole intent was so that my brother and I wouldn’t have to be stuck with lifetime mortgages...so now that I’m nearing 50, and he’s almost 45, we can live comfortably. But it did blow my mind when our place was appraised at over $1.1 million, since our place is a very average home, and in a very average neighborhood. Hopefully, by the time you move here, our rail system will be pau 😉 and you won’t have to sit in this horrible traffic. 😁
...mind you I do know it's changed a ton since and did love the International Market Place ...I really have to go back to live..just can't stand these Calgary winters!! Lol
Yeah, the International Marketplace isn’t the same grungy place it used to be...but you can find all of those vendors at the Swap Meet now. But just because we’re in the 21st Century now, doesn’t mean that our Aloha Spirit is gone...it’s still everywhere, and it’s still a very diverse state. John, if you ever choose to come back to your motherland (I pay attention, Keoni 🤙🏽), it’ll always be here and you’ll be welcomed back with open arms. I hope you and your ohana are staying safe and healthy during this pandemic. Much love and aloha from Kaimuki! 😁🤙🏽❤️🌈☀️
@@SeanShimamoto Mahalo for your warm open arms and hugs, Sean💗 the spirit hasn't left, you have proven that! Kaimuki? Mum, Dad and I had friends there, and Mom taught Art at the school as well as alot of School's and seperate lessons, the Outdoor Circle included, she was so talented, gifted and very well known in the Island's, .. I am so looking forward to coming Home🌺..at some point anyway Lol, the Mana filled Islands will always be that for me..🌺Home!🌴🌊🌴😁 We lived in Kailua (Liku St.) Then Kaneohe (MioMio Loop)for awhile till moving to Waikiki (3006 Pualei circle, Gregg Apts) it was great waking up in the early morning to all the animals at the Zoo saying 😁good morning💖😅 Dad and me would trip down to the beach early 6am where he would get in a long swim before work, I'd play in the sand and sea close to shore and eventually swim and walk to meet him at Fort DeRussy, walk home eat he'd go to work Mum and I would go all around the Island meeting with other artist friends, that was really special for me..don't know why, but it felt good inside you know? I have some of her Paintings, alot of newspaper articles on her, a bunch of photo's, one day I'd like to have a small Artshop again like Mom had...with a beachy/funky feel, really local🎶 something that say's Mahalo for all the Love the Sand and Sea has given to all of us💖🌺🌴🌊🌴🎶 ..lol I really should have jumped off the deck of that ship when I had the mind to back in '67 when Mum and I left to move to Vancouver BC, while Dad stayed till he retired in '73, after he moved up with us he passed two years later at 67, then Mum 5 years after at 55...both were so young! whenever i feel any hustle and bustle-ness, and am very sad i swear I hear and feel Hawai`i calling me up to check in with pure Love!..it's such a great feeling and I can smell Plumeria and other smells when I was little, of Mum, Dad and all my friends and fun, it makes things just a little bit better, a different sad..maybe a happy sad, ...oh man I'm sorry for talkin' your ear off, Sean ..easy to yak 'n yak.. especially when comfortable with someone..Mahalo🌺💖
@@johnedwardkeoniambrose1151 I will write more to you later, but I just saw that you subscribed to my channel...I’m not sure why, ‘cause I don’t upload videos...yet....but you’re my 300th subscriber! I told my friends that if I ever got 300 subscribers that I would start making videos on UA-cam. So I’ll probably start uploading videos this summer...mostly making vlogs about life in Honolulu, please I love to go, things I love to do, foods I love to eat, and hikes I love to go on. So hopefully it’s stuff that you’ll enjoy watching. Anyway, I’ll reply to your comment later this evening. Hope all is well. 😁🤙🏽
International market place ruined by greed and consumerism😡😡😡 They apparently weren't doing the shows in '08 when I finally got to go back. I don't recall being taken there in '79-82 while residing on Schofield Barracks to know if the shows were still in effect. I've always wondered where all the pigs are to accommodate the nightly luau's😢
I have been going to Hawaii since 1986. Other than Honolulu and Waikiki, it is still a great place to visit. Waikiki has turned into another Las Vegas strip type shopping. With all the ladies of the night.
Ummmmmmm...no. The building under construction at 5:56 remained an unfinished steel skeleton for several years in the 1960s due to running out of money before it was eventually completed with different financing. A better clue to the actual date of this footage is the Waikiki Business Plaza building under construction at 1:16 in the center of the scene; this was finished and opened in 1965. And the small building containing the HATS office that the couple walks into had been demolished by 1969 for the Surfrider wing of the Moana Hotel; this opened in late 1969.
Makes it even more disappointing that the international market place is gone after hearing the way they talked about it back then, replaced with yet more over priced shopping, also gone now is kings landing wich they didn’t mention but was another cool downtown spot
This is so cringe if you know the history from native Hawaiians Point of view... The way he speaks so highly of captain cook (YIkes!).... BTW He wasn't the first person to discover Hawaii.....
He was an expert navigator, objectively speaking. If he was your hero from your perspective as a people, you’d herald him for his feats. You cringe because of your liberal worldview that pits you at odds with a proudly pro stance on the global outgrowth of European society - of the civilisational dominance of its people and their tradition. In this time, as you can see, the dominant mindset was opposite.
![Honolulu, Hawaii 1940s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BpIOEHl_C9Q/mqdefault.jpg)
1969 was the year I moved to Hawaii with my family. I was 9 years old. This video brought back memories of those days....I miss them.
I was born there in '59 loved seeing the era I wish to go back to🌴🌊🌴🌊
My dad was navy so we got there in '59 when I was 8 and left in '63, I only got back in 2007 and it was different, the Dole Pineapple structure was gone and so many wild places were filled up with homes etc. We lived by the Bloch arena Pearl Harbor area, when I got back the same monkey pod tree that I spent tons of time in was still there and the smell of that small area brought back instant memories, it was truly remarkable to reconnect w/ my parents just from a smell. I used to dream of that area, I had a nice uke and lots of playmates. My husband was part tahitian and told me his uncle had a prominent last name and I found his name on a travel brochure on the plane. I wanted to live there and had the money, but my inner voice said I'd miss my son, so I stayed here in Utah instead back in 2007, my friend had a friend that lived there and they had a room mate for me etc. It's so cold here, but my tiny family is here so I stay put.
I want to go back to oahu of the 1960's Too damned crowded on this island today
Greed destroyed Oahu. The same is now taking place in Maui. I pray that Kauai and Da Big Island stay true to Hawaii and maybe Oahu and Maui will revert back to its pureness.
That last scene in the video was a prophetic one, about the two million visitors.
Before the Pandemic, seven million tourists visited Hawai’i.
Aloha 🤙🏼
You are right my friend
pure Maui. It has to happen!
9:15 miss this place. My dad used to work there while he was in college
I left Hawaii in 1953 to complete my last two years in college. Waikiki had only four hotels if you include the Halekulani. When I return in 1955. it was wall to wall hotels. I left never to return.
i like hotels. i don't want to sleep on the beach when i vacation
I love ❤️ Hawai’i but unfortunately it has become so busy . I am sure the old days were best
the narrator has a very pleasant voice and manner
When you truly watch this Movie, you can get a true understanding how perfect and nice Honolulu, & Hilo, and the outer Islands were just perfect the way they were!! If they only could have put a Hight Restriction on the High Rise Buildings then we might have still had a perfect Place today! No the Greed of the developer's to Just Build, Build & Build only to make money.....$$$$$... thats all the could See -Sad , Sad, Sad... Boy do I miss how it was when I was there as a Boy.......
So much has changed in Hawai’i, and (largely) not for the better. But it’s easy to forget that, compared to earlier times, Hawai’i had already experienced dramatic changes by 1969.
History tends to play that trick upon us, especially when we look at these “snapshot” moments.
Nostalgia also plays a role in how we view the Past. A person with firsthand memories will see the Past differently than someone born years later.
There’s so much to take apart in this video: the butchered pronunciations, the over generalizations, the Americanism, the whiteness, gender, you name it.
In 2021, you don’t need a PhD to see that this “travelogue” is a dated and stereotypical view of Hawai’i from the “haole” perspective.
But I think this says more about our own time than it says about the Past.
Hawai’i has changed. It will always keep changing. And we can never go back to the way things were.
We chart a different course.
Aloha 🙏🏼🤙🏼
It’s kinda crazy that this film was made 4 years before I was born, and those opening shots of Waikiki don’t look all that different from now. People can say what they want, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world. If I could move to 1 city...it would be to move to Hilo, on the Big Island. That’s my all-time favourite city, period. 😁
Hawaiian 🌺 Islands are the best 🤙🏼
I have never heard a man less excited about anything than Jack Douglas is about a holiday in Hawaii.
He had that warm easy attractive voice that made you want to travel. LOL
Hey all my family remember when. Many of the old places not changed just like the old days. Hope you can enjoy.
What a revealing narrative.
That's the way Oahu looked when I lived there. We arrived in 65' , left in 68' then returned for 2 years. Dad was Air Force. I have seen recent videos of Honolulu and it's hard to recognize it. I hate to see all the skyscrapers taking over for a view of Diamond Head.
The man doing the talking on this film mispronounced many of the names of the Hawaiian locations and landmarks.
5:53 Hmmm... some high-rise developer RUINED the diamond-head view with his stupid condo he's building. They shouldn't have approved it.
Hyatt squashed the Market Place which was the ❤️ of Waikiki. Shame.
It would have been really nice if the narrator learned to pronounce the Hawaiian names correctly. All in all it's a beautiful tribute
23:01 even paradise there are still flies. Man's right shoulder.
Beautiful
Back when Ala Moana Center was for the locals, and not flooded with tourists. Was born there in '93. It didn't get to be the shit hole it is now till about 2003. I'd give anything to leave, despite spending all my life living here.
It’s Honolulu Not Hanalulu
いいですねー！
この時代のホノルルにも行ってみたいですね！
whenever I've gone back, most recently was '99 before that was working at the Airport ramp '93 and lots before that, but I never seem to get caught up in the hustle 'n bustle you know? I'm so layed back it borders on comatose LOL I just do my thing, eat cheap, get a bus pass and trip around hehehe
I was born 4 years after this film was made, and save 4 years that I lived in California, I’ve been here...and I live smack dab in the middle of Honolulu, just 1.5 miles from Waikiki and I’m practically next to the University of Hawai’i...and I still don’t get caught up in the hustle ‘n bustle. I don’t quite get what people mean by that...other than the traffic, everyday existence is so much slower and more laid back than even living in Fresno, CA. I was fortunate that our parents had good foresight, ‘cause I don’t know how people afford to live here...that’s the only thing about living in Hawai’i. Back in 1960, our parents bought a duplex (3-bedroom/1-bath on top, and 2-bed/1-bath on bot; completely separate units) in Kaimuki for $50K...and their whole intent was so that my brother and I wouldn’t have to be stuck with lifetime mortgages...so now that I’m nearing 50, and he’s almost 45, we can live comfortably. But it did blow my mind when our place was appraised at over $1.1 million, since our place is a very average home, and in a very average neighborhood. Hopefully, by the time you move here, our rail system will be pau 😉 and you won’t have to sit in this horrible traffic. 😁
My Hawai‘i. Enjoy
...mind you I do know it's changed a ton since and did love the International Market Place ...I really have to go back to live..just can't stand these Calgary winters!! Lol
The international market place has been COMPLETELY Transformed into a luxury shopping center it’s massive!
Yeah, the International Marketplace isn’t the same grungy place it used to be...but you can find all of those vendors at the Swap Meet now. But just because we’re in the 21st Century now, doesn’t mean that our Aloha Spirit is gone...it’s still everywhere, and it’s still a very diverse state.
John, if you ever choose to come back to your motherland (I pay attention, Keoni 🤙🏽), it’ll always be here and you’ll be welcomed back with open arms. I hope you and your ohana are staying safe and healthy during this pandemic. Much love and aloha from Kaimuki! 😁🤙🏽❤️🌈☀️
@@SeanShimamoto Mahalo for your warm open arms and hugs, Sean💗 the spirit hasn't left, you have proven that! Kaimuki? Mum, Dad and I had friends there, and Mom taught Art at the school as well as alot of School's and seperate lessons, the Outdoor Circle included, she was so talented, gifted and very well known in the Island's, .. I am so looking forward to coming Home🌺..at some point anyway Lol, the Mana filled Islands will always be that for me..🌺Home!🌴🌊🌴😁 We lived in Kailua (Liku St.) Then Kaneohe (MioMio Loop)for awhile till moving to Waikiki (3006 Pualei circle, Gregg Apts) it was great waking up in the early morning to all the animals at the Zoo saying 😁good morning💖😅 Dad and me would trip down to the beach early 6am where he would get in a long swim before work, I'd play in the sand and sea close to shore and eventually swim and walk to meet him at Fort DeRussy, walk home eat he'd go to work Mum and I would go all around the Island meeting with other artist friends, that was really special for me..don't know why, but it felt good inside you know? I have some of her Paintings, alot of newspaper articles on her, a bunch of photo's, one day I'd like to have a small Artshop again like Mom had...with a beachy/funky feel, really local🎶 something that say's Mahalo for all the Love the Sand and Sea has given to all of us💖🌺🌴🌊🌴🎶
..lol I really should have jumped off the deck of that ship when I had the mind to back in '67 when Mum and I left to move to Vancouver BC, while Dad stayed till he retired in '73, after he moved up with us he passed two years later at 67, then Mum 5 years after at 55...both were so young! whenever i feel any hustle and bustle-ness, and am very sad i swear I hear and feel Hawai`i calling me up to check in with pure Love!..it's such a great feeling and I can smell Plumeria and other smells when I was little, of Mum, Dad and all my friends and fun, it makes things just a little bit better, a different sad..maybe a happy sad, ...oh man I'm sorry for talkin' your ear off, Sean ..easy to yak 'n yak.. especially when comfortable with someone..Mahalo🌺💖
@@johnedwardkeoniambrose1151 I will write more to you later, but I just saw that you subscribed to my channel...I’m not sure why, ‘cause I don’t upload videos...yet....but you’re my 300th subscriber! I told my friends that if I ever got 300 subscribers that I would start making videos on UA-cam. So I’ll probably start uploading videos this summer...mostly making vlogs about life in Honolulu, please I love to go, things I love to do, foods I love to eat, and hikes I love to go on. So hopefully it’s stuff that you’ll enjoy watching. Anyway, I’ll reply to your comment later this evening. Hope all is well. 😁🤙🏽
Hawai’i climate is best
International market place ruined by greed and consumerism😡😡😡
They apparently weren't doing the shows in '08 when I finally got to go back. I don't recall being taken there in '79-82 while residing on Schofield Barracks to know if the shows were still in effect.
I've always wondered where all the pigs are to accommodate the nightly luau's😢
I have been going to Hawaii since 1986. Other than Honolulu and Waikiki, it is still a great place to visit. Waikiki has turned into another Las Vegas strip type shopping. With all the ladies of the night.
Despite the title of this video, the footage was actually shot in 1964; it's not from 1969.
Ummmmmmm...no. The building under construction at 5:56 remained an unfinished steel skeleton for several years in the 1960s due to running out of money before it was eventually completed with different financing. A better clue to the actual date of this footage is the Waikiki Business Plaza building under construction at 1:16 in the center of the scene; this was finished and opened in 1965. And the small building containing the HATS office that the couple walks into had been demolished by 1969 for the Surfrider wing of the Moana Hotel; this opened in late 1969.
I would say this definitely looks earlier than 1969. Not a shaggy degenerate in sight .
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Ya, no hara krisnnas accosting the kalakaua crowd either.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic yea, those damn smelly hippys. The cars are all before 69 definately.
@@hebneh correct
Makes it even more disappointing that the international market place is gone after hearing the way they talked about it back then, replaced with yet more over priced shopping, also gone now is kings landing wich they didn’t mention but was another cool downtown spot
at 3:05 the dance is called, itik itik sa Manila Zoo :)
How can you visit O’ahu and not visit the Arizona Memorial? Let alone get some authentic Shaved Ice!
It sounds like the narrator has drunk a few tropical cocktails…
This is so cringe if you know the history from native Hawaiians Point of view... The way he speaks so highly of captain cook (YIkes!).... BTW He wasn't the first person to discover Hawaii.....
He was an expert navigator, objectively speaking. If he was your hero from your perspective as a people, you’d herald him for his feats. You cringe because of your liberal worldview that pits you at odds with a proudly pro stance on the global outgrowth of European society - of the civilisational dominance of its people and their tradition. In this time, as you can see, the dominant mindset was opposite.
america destroyed Hawai'i
Yup
Now it’s a giant methadone clinic.
I was a beach boy in waikiki in the 60's teaching surfing and I was white ???????