HAWAII IN THE 1940s HAWAII LEI DAY HONOLULU 34384
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2015
- This rare full color travelogue from the 1940s shows Hawaii as it looked in the era before air travel made the island a highly accessible tourist destination. The film was photographed by Walter "Butch" Resce, who served as a combat cameraman during WWII and founded Rainbow Pictures after the war. The film shows Waikiki Beach, surfing, Diamond Head, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and many other scenes of classic Hawaii. Floral leis are seen at the 4:30 mark, with service personnel being decorated as well as tourists. A luau is also shown, along with classic Hawaiian dancing, the Statue of King Kamehameha, and a beautiful sunset.
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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.
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
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@@Subiwu I must be, since I was writing it. I'm 92 years old now.
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.
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!
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.
I would do almost anything to go back to this time in Hawai’i, when it was a true paradise.
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.
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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?
“ 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.
Hawai’i in better days. 😢
weren't jim crow laws a thing back then...?
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.
Why do you think it was not shot in Hawaii?
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.
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?
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.
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.
Propaganda of the 1940s