What Once Was...

[Menehune Man]

Playing around on the 'puter, I just discovered that the Makiki Cemetery once was the original site of the Agricultural Station in Hawai'i. Here's a Thread for other "What once was..." Here's aLink (www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/AboutUs/Krause_History/khistory.html)

[Glen Miyashiro]

Restaurant Row used to be the old Honolulu Ironworks. I still remember that there was a Flamingo restaurant on that lot in the 1970s.

[1stwahine]

I couldn't get the link. Sound's interesting.

I keep getting this: www.ctahr.hawaii.edu home page

OK, now, I got it! WOW! Now, Help with the Cemetary!

Note: The Fong's own the property so I better hurry.

Auntie Lynn

Note: The old Waialae Drive Inn used to be a Cemetary. My grandparents are buried there but I don't know how to go about looking for them. Anybody know the proper channels or how I could start?

[Menehune Man]

Don't know why the link won't work. I double-checked the writing and it's correct? Sorry :o

[Glen Miyashiro]

Don't know why the link won't work. I double-checked the writing and it's correct? Sorry :oWere you trying to point to this page (http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/Research/History.html)?

[Menehune Man]

Yes! Thanks Buddy! :D Though there's an accompaning page that says it's now the site of the Makiki Cemetery.

[Menehune Man]

Note: The old Waialae Drive Inn used to be a Cemetary. My grandparents are buried there but I don't know how to go about looking for them. Anybody know the proper channels or how I could start?

I've seen many a movie there... back in the day! Now it's a storage place, eh?

[Glen Miyashiro]

Aunty, here's a little more information for you:

Question: Who is responsible for the upkeep of that cemetery in Waialae Kahala that stretches between Keanu Street and Waialae Avenue? It borders Kiionioni Street and is parallel to Hunakai.

Answer: Ocean View Cemetery is owned by the family of former U.S. Sen. Hiram Fong, who says there is a caretaker who lives in a house at the site. "We have engaged a landscape architect to draw up plans to beautify" the cemetery, although the plans have not yet been realized, he said. Fong, who took over ownership of the cemetery in 1935, says, it "is very old." It once was a rock pile where the city buried indigents, Fong said, but burials were stopped years ago. If you have any concerns about the cemetery, call Fong at 548-4981.

As an aside, we were able to find some information about the cemetery from Nannette Napoleon Purnell, founder of the Cemetery Research Project. Purnell has compiled a directory of graveyards on Oahu, Maui and Molokai. We viewed copies at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library at 560 Kawaiahao St.

(Honolulu Star-Bulletin (http://starbulletin.com/2000/12/16/news/kokualine.html), 12/16/2000)Not sure exactly who to call now that Sen. Fong has died, but I'm sure it's still in his family.

[AuntieNellieKulolo]

I've seen many a movie there... back in the day! Now it's a storage place, eh?


I saw Poltergeist there, many moons ago - very appropriate. I also remember there used to be a swap meet there on weekends. After the drive-in shut down(mid-80's?) they turned it into a putting green, am not sure when Public Storage took over.

[Moto]

I couldn't get the link. Sound's interesting.

I keep getting this: www.ctahr.hawaii.edu home page

OK, now, I got it! WOW! Now, Help with the Cemetary!

Note: The Fong's own the property so I better hurry.

Auntie Lynn

Note: The old Waialae Drive Inn used to be a Cemetary. My grandparents are buried there but I don't know how to go about looking for them. Anybody know the proper channels or how I could start?

In my hanabata days I remember the story about the faceless woman with the rather large scar on her face as she would appear in the mirror in the women's bathroom from time to time.

[lurkah]

In my hanabata days I remember the story about the faceless woman with the rather large scar on her face as she would appear in the mirror in the women's bathroom from time to time.
<ot> Eh Moto...looks like we had da same kine hanabata days. What school you wen grad? :p Remembah Mynah Bird Drive-In, before it became Jolly Rogers, which later became Zippy's? Skateland? Tom Thumb slot car racing? :D </ot>

[pzarquon]

There was a great article (almost ten years ago? wow!) in the Star-Bulletin, "Where (_____) Used To Be (http://starbulletin.com/96/09/09/features/story1.html)."

I love how locals give directions based on no-longer-existing landmarks. ("Where Kapiolani Theaters used to be..." or "Where Cinerama used to be..." or "Where Kelly's Drive-Inn used to be...") Though as time passes, even those memories fade. A couple of weeks ago, I was driving through the east end of Waikiki on Kuhio, and was having a hard time visualizing where the Kuhio Twins were previously located. It's a completely different neighborhood now.

And... it's on the tip of my tongue... what was the coffee shop at Nimitz Highway and Lagoon Drive that's now a Kia Motors lot? Coco's? I remember using that as a landmark for directions way back when, but now I'm not sure who'd remember (as I've clearly forgotten!).

[helen]

I love how locals give directions based on no-longer-existing landmarks. ("Where Kapiolani Theaters used to be..." or "Where Cinerama used to be..." or "Where Kelly's Drive-Inn used to be...")

It's something I noticed about locals on Oahu giving directions in this manner. I don't remember people on Kauai or the Big Island giving directions in this manner. Then again neither of those groups makes use of the Diamond Head, Ewa, Mauka, Makiki directions.

[Menehune Man]

And... it's on the tip of my tongue... what was the coffee shop at Nimitz Highway and Lagoon Drive that's now a Kia Motors lot? Coco's? I remember using that as a landmark for directions way back when, but now I'm not sure who'd remember (as I've clearly forgotten!).

Wasn't Coco's where the Hard Rock Cafe is now? At the corner of Kapiolani/Kalakaua?

[1stwahine]

Wasn't Coco's where the Hard Rock Cafe is now? At the corner of Kapiolani/Kalakaua?

Yes.

The faceless woman of the Drive Inn, was my Grandmother...shot in the face by my grand father who then comitted suicide! I'll write about it in my BLOG November! Ohhhh...da spooky!!!!!! :eek:

Auntie Lynn

[Palolo Joe]

And... it's on the tip of my tongue... what was the coffee shop at Nimitz Highway and Lagoon Drive that's now a Kia Motors lot? Coco's? I remember using that as a landmark for directions way back when, but now I'm not sure who'd remember (as I've clearly forgotten!).
That was Kelly's Coffee Shop out on Nimitz... used to eat breakfast at Coco's back in the day, when the front entrance used to face Kapiolani Blvd.

[Fondoo2]

Yes.

The faceless woman of the Drive Inn, was my Grandmother...shot in the face by my grand father who then comitted suicide! I'll write about it in my BLOG November! Ohhhh...da spooky!!!!!! :eek:

Auntie Lynn

eek x 2 I feel funny /shiver

[craigwatanabe]

The old Waialae Drive In. Yes that old story of the faceless woman in the women's bathroom goes back to the early 60's.

Then there's Oasis Nightclub on old Waialae Avenue which is also a public storage place (same company that owns the one at the old Waialae Drive In)

The old Sears building where the old Police station was (torn down and now is the site for a retirement home)

Mynah Bird drive in later called Jolly Roger's home of the Suzie Q. Then when the Waialae overpass was built, all that echoing noise scared away all them Pidgeons that roosted on the roof of that eatery. Yes Pidgeons, I don't know what happened to the Mynah birds...I think the ended up in that big Banyan tree behind Varsity Theater and Church of the Crossroads.

Remember the Ranch House in Aina Haina? It became Rockchilds and The Metro with it's gaudy neon lighting. Shut down and is now the site of a Jehovha's Witness Kingdom Hall.

The first McDonalds in Aina Haina is still there. I remember in 1967 when it first opened, a Big Mac cost a whopping 65-cents! As the commercial went...There is nothing so clean as my burger machine...you deserve a break today...so get out and get away...to McDonalds!

And then there was the Waialae Shopping center now known as Kahala Mall. Longs Drugs and Star Market are the only two surviving tenants still there since day one. McDonalds at Kahala Mall was the Waialae Bowl's coffee shop run by my former co-worker's dad Mr. Kanno.

What's left of the Honolulu Stadium better known as the Termite Palace? Next time you go to Stadium Park in Moilili look at those burms. That's where all the piles of wood remain. When I walked the park with my kids years ago I always wished some surveyer had made a GPS location of home plate as I walked around the approximate area where it should have been.

Then there's the former infamous address: 404 Piikoi Street home of Records Hawaii and the Lewers and Cook building behind it. Now it's not even that address anymore with the Hawaiki Tower sitting over it's remains.

The everchanging landscape of Honolulu is why I left my beloved city I grew up in...it has changed too much and now I hardly recognize it the way I knew it. So sad :(

[Menehune Man]

Oh the memories. Thanks Craig!

[pzarquon]

That was Kelly's Coffee Shop out on Nimitz... used to eat breakfast at Coco's back in the day, when the front entrance used to face Kapiolani Blvd.I know where Kelly's was, on the mauka side of Nimitz, where the gigantic motorcycle shop now stands (as if you needed more proof that Harleys are priced by the value of the name in the market, not to the quality of the product). I'm talking about the round, wooden structure on the makai side, across from -- wait for it -- where Honolulu Ford used to be! It looked/looks like a smaller sister to Anna Miller's. Wasn't that a restaurant at one point? Or am I imagining this whole thing?

[lurkah]

I know where Kelly's was, on the mauka side of Nimitz, where the gigantic motorcycle shop now stands (as if you needed more proof that Harleys are priced by the value of the name in the market, not to the quality of the product). I'm talking about the round, wooden structure on the makai side, across from -- wait for it -- where Honolulu Ford used to be! It looked/looks like a smaller sister to Anna Miller's. Wasn't that a restaurant at one point? Or am I imagining this whole thing?
That was the old South Seas Restaurant on the corner of Lagoon Drive and Koapaka St.

[1stwahine]

That was Kelly's Coffee Shop out on Nimitz... used to eat breakfast at Coco's back in the day, when the front entrance used to face Kapiolani Blvd.

The one across Kelly's was South Seas. Hardrock Cafe was Coco's. Lot's of Disco Dancing during my days and eating breakfast after...nuff said. LOL

Aunty Lynn ;)

Oh, yeah...Lurkah, Nice job on the researching of South Seas. You caught my switch. why am I thinking Tradewinds? Where was Tradewinds? :confused:

[lurkah]

That was the old South Seas Restaurant on the corner of Lagoon Drive and Koapaka St.
Mahalo for researching that answer, lurkah. http://allthingshawaiian.com/lurkah/graphics/shaka.gif

[D'Alani]

Anyone remember going to the neighborhood theaters on Saturday to watch cartoons? On this side had Kalihi, Palama, and Liliha Theaters that had sort of like a cartoon club. At the end when you left everyone had a free soda or ice cream. If your birhtday was that month you had a piece of cake. I think it was 10 cents or 15 cents.

[craigwatanabe]

Auntie...this is all one big dream...go lay down now pretty soon it will be 1965 again...hanabuttah and all ladat. But wen you wake up, rememba Craig wen nevah shoot da rubbah band at your forhead at school okay was Kimo!! Wasn't me!! :rolleyes:

[1stwahine]

Auntie...this is all one big dream...go lay down now pretty soon it will be 1965 again...hanabuttah and all ladat. But wen you wake up, rememba Craig wen nevah shoot da rubbah band at your forhead at school okay was Kimo!! Wasn't me!! :rolleyes:

Now, you got me wondering! You went Kaiulani? You da Criag dat wen shoot da rubber band in my forehead? Wea you said you live now? I catching da plane! Or was it glen that lives on the Big Island? You two always gets me confused...I'm always confused as it is! Auwe. And don't blame Kimo. He hasn't answered my PM but I not mad.

Aunty Lynn

[D'Alani]

...why am I thinking Tradewinds? Where was Tradewinds? :confused:
Aunty, I think Tradewinds was in Waikiki where Todai stay now. They had the first topless waitresses, and then Dunes started with the waiters.

[1stwahine]

Aunty, I think Tradewinds was in Waikiki where Todai stay now. They had the first topless waitresses, and then Dunes started with the waiters.

:o Oh, yeah...I remember it well now. Oooops. Nuff said.

Auntie Lynn

[Moto]

Moving over to the Country side of Oahu, Waipahu Towne Center with Longs, Sizzlers, etc now sit on the site where many movies were shown at the Famous Royal Sunset Drive Inn. The Car Dealership next to the shopping center close to McDonalds is where Clock's Drive in once was. The home of the 22 cent Hamburger. Zippy's in Pearl City is where Scotties in Pearl City once was (There was one in town too near Rainbow Rollerland). Across the street in the shopping Center where Flamingo's in Pearl City now stands, used to be the home of Bluebird Drive inn.

[kimo55]

And don't blame Kimo. He hasn't answered my PM but I not mad.


yea, ain't it pure heck...
"instant gratification takes too long", eh...
I hate that too!