Today is King Kamelamela Day in Hawaii, and when I conjure up Hawaii in my mind I picture Luaus and hula, Don Ho, an old Elvis Presley movie, Magnum, P.I., Barack Obama, the USS Arizona, and how cute Connie Stevens looked in Hawaiian Eye, as well as the island's most famous pre-Steve McGarrett fictional police detective, Charlie Chan.
Here's Charlie, as played by Walter Connolly, who must face the kidnapping of his beloved daughter Rose by bank robbers after a bungled robbery.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmWQ83QnnU
And at least one of your regular readers lived on Oahu, mostly in Kailua, for five years in his youth, even if your blog is still set to only allow me to post as Alice when using any of your extant computers. Barry Obama was graduated from Punahou School in 1978, so I never met him, having enrolled in 1979, but the late spring and summer before that we might well've crossed paths at the record store in Ala Moana Mall, where we both listened to the new jazz releases, mostly, at their listening booths there. Todd Mason
ReplyDeleteOr our extant computers. A bit of a commute to borrow yours.
ReplyDeleteA further note--Kamehameha was the uniting king ln Hawaii. Glad you had a much better Flag Day than Drumpf would ever enable.
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