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Kauai as it was in the 1940s and '50s : recollections and photographs of the days when Grampa Mike was a teenage, coast haole bachelor living on Kauai during the two years prior to World War II and four years following the war / Mike Ashman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii : Kauai Historical Society, [2004]Distributor: Honolulu, Hawaii : Distributed by University of Hawaii Press Copyright date: ©2004Description: vii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824817664
  • 9780824817664
  • 0824829042
  • 9780824829049
Other title:
  • Kauai as it was in the nineteen forties and 'fifties
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.903
Contents:
Chapter 1. Discovering Your Family Roots Are Buried in a Carton of Junk -- Chapter 2. Docking at Nawiliwili and Leaving the Nest -- Chapter 3. Boneyard Beach and The Night Marchers -- Chapter 4. Radio Station KTOH Becomes Kauai's First Broadcast Station -- Chapter 5. Torrential Rain and Flash Floods Bring KTOH Its First Major Live News Coverage -- Chapter 6. Resetting Island Clocks as Time Marches Backwards -- Chapter 7. Charlie Fern and The Anna Gladys Debacle -- Chapter 8. Preserving One's Culture and Going Night Fishing -- Chapter 9. Comfort Stations for Lonely Hearts -- Chapter 10. Hollywood Comes to Kauai and Everybody Wants to Get in the Act -- Chapter 11. When "Haole" Was Just Half of a Word -- Chapter 12. Mike Fern and The Tryst at Hee Fat's -- Chapter 13. Whatever Happened to Da Kine Stuffs? -- Chapter 14. Plantation Camps and Opting for Segregation -- Chapter 15. When "Ring the Operator" Meant "Turn the Crank" -- Chapter 16. How Much Do You Tip for A Nickel Bowl of Saimin? -- Chapter 17. What Do You Do After They Roll Up the Sidewalks? -- Chapter 18. Terms of Endearment and "Aloha-I am Pig Slop Man" -- Chapter 19. Land of No Addresses and The Mystery of the Missing Picture Bride -- Chapter 20. A Final Serving of The Leftovers -- Chapter 21. Preparing for a War That Wasn't Supposed to Affect Hawaii -- Glossary.
Review: "Kauai As It Was In The 1940s and '50s is a first-hand account of life on Kauai as it was lived in the radio days of the 1940s and 1950s. Author Mike Ashman, a popular radio announcer for KTOH, Kauai's first commercial radio station, takes readers back to the days when sugar plantations were the center of island life, and Honolulu was a far, faraway place. Ashman's cast of characters include "Mr. Kauai," Charlie Fern, the long-time editor of The Garden Island newspaper, the local musicians he shared a bandstand with, the famous, and the infamous. Ashman captures the pathos of Kauai's tight-knit community in the uncertain days prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the era when the island emerged from its rural isolation in the heady post-war years of the late 1940s and early 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.
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Chapter 1. Discovering Your Family Roots Are Buried in a Carton of Junk -- Chapter 2. Docking at Nawiliwili and Leaving the Nest -- Chapter 3. Boneyard Beach and The Night Marchers -- Chapter 4. Radio Station KTOH Becomes Kauai's First Broadcast Station -- Chapter 5. Torrential Rain and Flash Floods Bring KTOH Its First Major Live News Coverage -- Chapter 6. Resetting Island Clocks as Time Marches Backwards -- Chapter 7. Charlie Fern and The Anna Gladys Debacle -- Chapter 8. Preserving One's Culture and Going Night Fishing -- Chapter 9. Comfort Stations for Lonely Hearts -- Chapter 10. Hollywood Comes to Kauai and Everybody Wants to Get in the Act -- Chapter 11. When "Haole" Was Just Half of a Word -- Chapter 12. Mike Fern and The Tryst at Hee Fat's -- Chapter 13. Whatever Happened to Da Kine Stuffs? -- Chapter 14. Plantation Camps and Opting for Segregation -- Chapter 15. When "Ring the Operator" Meant "Turn the Crank" -- Chapter 16. How Much Do You Tip for A Nickel Bowl of Saimin? -- Chapter 17. What Do You Do After They Roll Up the Sidewalks? -- Chapter 18. Terms of Endearment and "Aloha-I am Pig Slop Man" -- Chapter 19. Land of No Addresses and The Mystery of the Missing Picture Bride -- Chapter 20. A Final Serving of The Leftovers -- Chapter 21. Preparing for a War That Wasn't Supposed to Affect Hawaii -- Glossary.

"Kauai As It Was In The 1940s and '50s is a first-hand account of life on Kauai as it was lived in the radio days of the 1940s and 1950s. Author Mike Ashman, a popular radio announcer for KTOH, Kauai's first commercial radio station, takes readers back to the days when sugar plantations were the center of island life, and Honolulu was a far, faraway place. Ashman's cast of characters include "Mr. Kauai," Charlie Fern, the long-time editor of The Garden Island newspaper, the local musicians he shared a bandstand with, the famous, and the infamous. Ashman captures the pathos of Kauai's tight-knit community in the uncertain days prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the era when the island emerged from its rural isolation in the heady post-war years of the late 1940s and early 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.

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