Category: Misc.

Royal Hawaiian

By Saul
updated 5 months ago

This is a growing resource of information about Hawaii. I grew up in Honolulu in the 1950s and I return with my family every year. Feel free to jump in and add to this.

Queen Kapiolani

This statue is by the Band Stand in Kapiolani Park. Oueen Kapiolani was the wife of King Kalakaua, who was the Hawaiian Monarch who made a world tour, bringing many immigrant laborors back to the islands to work the sugar cane and pineapple fields. When my mom and dad were young newly weds, and when I was a baby, the family would go to Kapiolani Park to listen to concerts at the Band Stand. Kapiolani is at the east end of Waikiki, at the base of Diamond Head.

Kapiolani Park

3840 Paki Ave., Honolulu, HI 96815

The largest and oldest park in Hawaii, Kapiolani Park is home to the Diamond Head Crater and the 42-acre Honolulu Zoo...

The largest and oldest park in Hawaii, Kapiolani Park is home to the Diamond Head Crater and the 42-acre Honolulu Zoo. The park is located on the east end of Waikiki Beach, off Kalakaua Avenue. Exercise-enthusiasts enjoy the park's three-mile jogging course which follows part of the Hawaiian Marathon's course.

View of Diamond Head from across Kapiolani Park

Diamond Head is a special place. There is a certain energy around it. Take time to drive from Kalakaua Avenue to Diamond Head Road and around through the Kahala Area, to Hanama Bay, by the Blow Hole, and all the way out to Waimanalo (stopping to look out to Rabbit Island), than take the Pali Drive from Kailua back over to Honolulu.

When I was a boy and friends and relatives visited us from the Mainland, one of the drives we would take was this one…and we would stop at the banana stands on the Pali and enjoy a few different varieties of bananas.

Bishop Museum

1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817

The Bishop Museum has been designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History. It is located on the ...

The Bishop Museum has been designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History. It is located on the corner of Kapalama Avenue, east of Kamehameha Community Park. Upon entering the museum's campus, visitors see a life size replica of a massive stone idol found on the island of Rapa Nui.

Foster Village

1523 LEHIA ST HONOLULU, HI 96818

Foster Village was a single family community built in the mid to late 1950s by Castro Contracting. It is located right across Salt Lake Blvd from Radford High School (Rams). The homes are built on slabs, single wall construction, no heating sytems, and carports instead of garages. As my grandfather said to my dad and mom in 1958: “Why would anyone pay $20,000 for this?”