COLOR 16MM FILM, OAHU, HAWAII 1959-60, WAIKIKI BEACH, DOWNTOWN HONOLULU
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2015
- This 16mm film has a lot of really interesting scenes in it. Waikiki and the beach and downtown Honolulu are only a small part of this really great color film. At one point I believe there is movie being made about a pretty Japanese girl and some soldiers. The Alamo is playing at the local movie theater and a new Hotel is going up on the water front at Waikiki.
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Some of the best years of my life were lived as a child in Honolulu between 1962 and 1966. Walking barefoot or in “slippers” with my brother and sisters down red dirt roads, being given sugar cane and pineapple slices from workers in the fields while walking by, sucking on Li Hing Mui seeds, climbing palm trees on Waikiki Beach. Now it all seems like a very distant dream…
Brings me back! I was born in Hawaii in 1954 and I'm still here! Those were the days! Stay safe. Aloha
Do you have photos, you can make copies and sell them on ETSY or EBay, I would probably buy some, I'm always looking because my parents died and I did not get any of our family pictures.
Lucky 🍀 you . We love ❤️ Hawai’i
Lucky you 🤙🏼
I moved to this Beautiful Island in 1960 .I started my singing career there at a club called the BackStreet in Waikiki.
My grandma loved Oahu. Visited once or twice before our military tour in 79-82 then twice when we were there. Loved the pink palace hotel.
Lets time machine back to those happy better days when life in honolulu was truly a paradise!
This is where I played as a child and this is what it looked like.
The Japanese movie being filmed around Iolani Palace, starting at 0:42, is "Sanga Ari", released in 1962. The star, Hideko Takamine, is shown at 1:15.
This scene is supposed to be the departure of the 442nd Regiment from Hawaii in 1943, for their basic training. Japanese filmmakers weren't concerned with strict historical accuracy, so nobody is dressed in 1943 styles. But the real event did take place at the Palace, and there were large crowds watching it.
ty I was there I was about 8 my father got assigned to Pearl Harbor and my mother took me that day, I remember parts of it, it's so good to watch now, back then it was boring and when those cartoon characters came out we left, my mother liked the horses, I was enthralled by most of it. I know who you are talking about. I now at 68 watch anything I can on Netflix that is Korean or Chinese, and I wish I could watch more Japanese movies from the 60's. I remember Mothera something like that, when in Japan a giant moth came out, which frightened me lol
@@donnavaughn9409 You can watch scenes from a variety of Mothra movies here on RUclips.
ty good idea
Mothra was Godzilla's enemy. I saw that in the theater.
@@mistermatsuda Originally, yes - Godzilla and Mothra were enemies. Eventually they became allies against other monsters, however.
Beautiful film! Appreciate it! Made me homesick from a time of long past.
The quality of the video is fantastic, great video, thanks for sharing!
About the time Elvis filmed Blue Hawaii.
Blue Hawaii 1961!
He also captured shots of the King Kamehameha Day Parade from Iolani Palace, another parade fronting Ala Moana Center, Waikiki Beach from a room at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel......historical remembrances...before statehood-growth really took hold...wonderful. Mahalo nui loa...Hawai'i No Ka Oi!
Thank you for this great information I will add it to the description if you don’t mind. I love that particular film and will reproduce it again one day in high definition with a few other corrections. I have another Hawaiian film I’m going to release sometime in the next couple weeks but it has more to do with Ford Island and the submarine base near the island from the years 1932 to about 1945. That Film will also include some still photos of the Vijay parade on Oahu. Thank you so much for watching
I wasn't even born til 1975!
Please show more of Hawaii before Statehood when we had more rights and respect. 😢
WOW! Way more beautiful than the bouchard gardens video I just watched.
Mahalo for sharing 🤙🏼❤️ Aloha 🌴🌴
'A' ole palikir
beautiful scenes
you're so welcome please share it if you can it's very hard to keep this going RUclips pays very very little but it helps. Have a wonderful day
Hawaii's a nice place to go for a couple of weeks but I wouldn't want to live there it's too much like Gilligan's Island with one big shopping mall on it
It was 1959 when I was there on R&R. Back from a couple of months on Johnson Island. The condo and hotel construction had begun but Hawaii wasn't yet the mess it has become. Based on really vintage films, it must have been magnificent in the 19-teens and twenties.
Absolutely I’ll agree with that.
Foster Tower, the first and sill the best on the beach. Mid century masterpiece.
To my childrenCount your blessings on Thanksgiving Day and everyday to have been raised in Aloha in Hawaii
Why ? Hawaii it's like clothes you bought in 1964 they're old tired and well played out !
That one loan highrise is now the smallest building on the beach 😟
@D Early thank you D but when you use Google speak it doesn't always work right
Wow beautiful Waikiki was still beautiful the water so clean the people still so beautiful little did we realize the mess I’ahu was heading for
Tourism makes the islands a lot of money but is also a plague that seems to use up and wear out the land and the people. It does the same thing even on the mainland. Thank you for watching.
Can the government not stop the influx of homeless supposedly sent from other states??
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My Hawaii is anything before 1953. All the changes began when I left Hawaii permanently.
I experienced it in 79-82 and could no longer recognize anything on Schofield Barracks box a second visit in '12.
Those were the day’s of long ago time. I was born in 1953 at the St. Francis Hospital in Nu’uanu Valley before Hawai’i became Statehood 6 year’s later. My dad was in the Army during this period and after he came back from the Korean War we left to go to Alaska. We were in Alaska when Hawai’i officially became Statehood. Now look at Hawai’i, over crowded with tourists, with foreigners, with the military, no wonder there’s no homes for the locals and their families. There’s more cars on Oahu than people. Go figure that one out. Our State politicians are just receiving their government benefits while our Ohana’s in the Islands are suffering. Now with this COVID-19 and it’s Delta Variant its no telling how anyone can survive this mayhem. I just pray to God that my dad and my sister’s and brother along with my wife’s family is doing well. Mahalo Nui Loa.
Hi James, yes all that cement covering up so many things. in 1959 I was 7 and my memories are excellent, dad was Navy, I remember that huge tsumai later. Anyways, all the wild places, gone, so much boganvilla sp? I didn't see it when I went back in 2007 in the same areas around the Pearl Harbor area, outside the base. We live by Bloch arena, right on 5th St., Pearl Harbor Kai. However my monkey pod tree was there, but was no enclosed in the base, but I was able to get on base, and stand next it and take pics, my parents bought me a Kamaka soprano uke, shape of pineapple I don't have it anymore, it had an excellent sound. I bought a nice, I thought used uke probably for lessons from a guy on Oahu 7 years ago, but 2 of the strings didn't hold, and it was too expensive to fix, so I sold it someone in Japan. I married a man whose uncle's family owned a lot of the nicer land by where royalty owned land, I don't remember his name, he is dead and he came out to Utah to get educated at the U of Utah and was a coach, his kids grew up in Utah, and then went to Reno most of them to do polynesian dancing shows. I don't understand why they took down the dole pineapple tower, and why so many people had to but beach front property. Anyways, thanks for listening.
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Must had been really nice back then, thank you for the video
Nice to see the Ka’ahumanu Society.
- 5:33, Hanamatsuri (Buddha's birthday) pageant at the Kapiolani Park Bandstand
- 9:46, Kamehameha Day ceremony at Kamehameha Statue, and parade on grounds of Iolani Palace
- 12:45, Gov. William Quinn in a parade, on Kapiolani Blvd.; possibly for Aloha Week
- 16:58, Foster Tower under construction on Kalakaua Avenue, across from Kuhio Beach
- 17:38, View from the Waikiki Biltmore Hotel, including the Waikiki Beach Center under construction across the street
- 18:11, Creepy parade going around Ala Moana Center
+hebneh When I first found this film I envisioned some person just like you having the knowledge of these things and caring enough to share it with others. I thank you so very much for this. My family and I recently made a trip to Oahu January of this year and loved it so much we are going to repeat the visit January 2016. I will now with your information be able to film or photograph these areas and incorporate them into a 2nd video as a before and after visit. You information makes watching this so much more enjoyable. Thank You
George Mihal Some of these scenes have changed tremendously in the last 55+ years, so when you return you won't be able to photograph all the same locations, of course. Others, interestingly, are still very similar.
I believe the lady on the grass in the maroon muumuu around 5:00 and seen a couple times after is entertainer and actress Hilo Hattie. Yes?
@@mooskanate While Hilo Hattie did originate this costume and dance moves in the 1930s, by the early 1960s she hadn't been performing at the Kodak Hula Show (seen here) for decades. She had spent much of the 1940s and '50s on the mainland and when she finally returned home, she was performing in hotels and other nighttime shows.
@@mooskanateIt most definitely is. Wish we had audio. What a legendary ambassador for Hawaii Ne'i.
brief appearance by Gov. William Quinn, first governor of the state - he's riding a horse in the Aloha Week parade.
Paradise lost!
That is when I was there. Going to and coming from Johnston Island. USAF radio operator. Now it's condos, condos, and more condos. No Martin Denny.
Or Emma Veary, or Philip Ingalls. Hawaiian music legendary contributors.
Hey George - I work at Hawaii News Now do you mind if I use about 10 seconds of this film for a historical video piece I am making? Thanks so much!
Jon Saupe You can contact me at officeofimagearchaeology@yahoo.com
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology Show George the $$$
Great footage of early 1960s Honolulu. "The Alamo" playing at the Waikiki cinema was released in fall 1960, and the Foster Tower in Waikiki was built in 1962.
Thank you so very much please share this if you would.
Now it’s Methkiki.
最初の撮影風景は「山河あり」という日本映画らしく、高嶺秀子さん、小林桂樹さんらが写ってますね。
#LUCKYWELIVEHAWAII
Was the former white cross at kole kole pass there when this was filmed i wonder...
Sad compared to what it is today. Nothing unique about the island now, it's just like any other city
Greed destroyed Oahu. So sad.
when I came back as an adult from '64 to 2007, I literally cried, because of so much that was gone, the Hawaiians filed with federal court to quit allowing people to buy up the homes and land on beaches, I couldn't believe people were doing this. I went w/ my friends and stood in front of the federal building to show our concern here in salt lake city, where we have quite a few polynesians, mostly Tongan and Samoan and they all came to, because so many of them had lived on Oahu at some time
Joel, it was mismanagement, incompetence and nepotism that really hurt the islands. It still exists today. How do I know this? I've lived here 66 years
Look at Rail, over budget, and incomplete. Not to mention a cost of living that at a minimum is double anywhere in the Mainland. You pay the price for paradise ! Mahalo and Aloha
Yup
I really like this recording, what is it?
You are the third person to ask this. I can not remember and have to research it. I will get on that this week. Thank you.
What was the skyscraper hotel seen early on? Still standing? Ive been away for a very long time....
One evening my mothers hired a photographer to take pictures of me and my mom to send to my dad on the ship, he was navy, and the guy took us to the LaRonde sp? the revolving restaut, I was 10 and 1/2, I remember I ordered lamb chops, it was like $5 something, very expensive in 1962or63, and you hear the squeak in the revolving as it turned, I thought that was funny.
Our family takes vacation on Oahu and last we where there the restaurant was still there but not open. Thank you for watching
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology yes George I went back in 2007 and they said it's been closed for a long time.
also I look forward to seeing your films, looks cool
I just purchased several Japanese news reels from the 1960s, they are on 35mm film. Unfortunately my equipment does not produce 35mm film. In time I am in hopes of acquiring what I need to produce these films but for now they sit silently waiting. It is nice hearing from you again, I enjoy reading your reminisces. Have a nice day and as always, thank you for watching.
Life is short
These would be your most loyal AMERICANS today, trust that Lincoln
Some great scenes here.
Anyone know what is the music on this?
I produced this years ago, I’ll see if I can track down some info on it. It is a tune I purchased from an outfit called audioblocks.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology oh wow thanks.
I used Siri to look it up but it returned a different track every time I tried. The results sporadically ranged from an acoustic guitar track, to a hip hop song with similar drum beat, to a video game soundtrack w/ similar steel pan (i think it's a steel pan).
So I wondered if it might be a custom mix.
So luch more beautiful before we decimated it.
No Hawaiian Music..😮🤔
Sad to see this. How we have wrecked this world and not just Hawaii. I have lived in Cape Coal Fl for nearly 25 years and have seen it go downhill. I don't go to the beach anymore! Why. Red tide, blue green algae, storm debris in the sand 1 YEAR AFTER hurricane IAN!!😮😢
Very sadly true.
all these places gone, buried under 20 stories of cement. Natural Beauty and people were the attraction not Burberry Tesla Tule etc and endless stores that have nothing Hawaiian Anything samll and old was flattened for retail land. Even finding this many costumes in all of Hawaii would now be impossible, also who would wear them? The King Kamehameha I(17823-18 Statue near the Iolani Palace is the 2nd made. A replacement of the original forged in Florence, Italy 1880. Neither 1 or 2 are accurate. However the original lost at sea near Falklands (S.America) was recoverd later and restored in 1912 and is placed near the King's birthplace in Kapaʻau on Hawaii. The Oahu one here was commissioned and has a differnt look, after the first one disapperared at sea. There are now 4 statues found on the islands, not to mention millions sold as souvenirs. Collect em all! Like everything else in most places. Culture has been replace \by modern retailers and the Music industry. They are the only one using costumes. See how most kings dress nowadays Dessigner Italian/English business suits/military uniforms. Some unelected Posers.
I don’t live in the islands, but have had the pleasure of visiting Oahu twice and Kawai ones. Incredible. Some years ago I found this film and when I went to Oahu, I looked for some of these locations. Everything you said was true, and I thank you for the Kamehameha statue history. I didn’t know one was lost at sea. Thank you for your perspective and thank you for watching.
Check out this video on RUclips:
Now all you see is hotels. Hawaii stop the atra of spreading hotels etc.
LMAO
no real Hawaiians anywhere, the mistakes the people in charge " took charge " without understanding of the indigenous people of Hawaii what was and wasn't going to be the rule and laws imposed on them. Hawaii politicians also sold out for the highest bidders who get what to build and who gets to own what. It was already decided early on to hand over government, land and management to the Japanese " like it or not " I still remember the 80 tees almost all stores, bars, hotels and clubs owned or operated by Japanese. Everything went out of control expensive and by early 90 tees their economy dropped, now what?
Any tiny chance you remember some wooden women's shoes with painted sides possibly called klonkas?? From 81-82, my mom came home from I don't know where on Oahu with a couple pairs and I still haven't been able to find out anything more after all these years and two return trips😢😢
Holy what a buncha whiners in the comments. This part of Hawaii has become the City . So what ! ? That’s life . I was born and grew up Vancouver BC Canada a beautiful coastal city. Can’t visit anymore, over priced, real estate bought up with foreign money as investment, empty condos. At least Hawaiians have other islands to retreat to.
Shut up haole
Where are the gaggles of homeless people?
Have to jump ahead half a century for that
Still in the states they were sent from😆😞