Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

BR: Yes. That’s about right.
KM: Do you remember, when did they close down the village, pretty much all together When
did they move the houses out
JH: 1958.
KM: In ‘58. They still had a school up there right
JH: Yes. The Waimea School, Thelma’s Boarding School, is the school house. When she
went to see Richard Smart he gave her the school because she was going to have a kids
school in Waimea.
KM: Who was this
JH: Thelma Lindsey.
BR: Thelma Lindsey. Behind Hayashi Store back here.
KM: Yes.
BR: It is the building. That is old Waiki‘i School.
KM: So it’s still standing
JH: Oh, yeah.
KM: Oh! ‘Cause I’d understood at one point, they were going to temporarily use it, the Bank of
Hawaii or First Hawaiian Bank when it first got established they were going to put it in the
school building for a while and then it moved, it became school full-time. It’s still in use
BR: Well, someone bought the property, it’s not a school anymore.
KM: I see.
JH: Not a school. That closed up, only a few years she had the school there.
BR: I would say it probably ran till about in the early ‘80s .
KM: Wow! They really used good lumber I guess on these houses and those things you know.
JH: Oh, yes in those days lumber was good.
BR: There were no termites in Waimea.
JH: No termites in Waimea, even to this day, you don’t see them around here.
KM: Oh. [pauses] Now you know when you were living at Waiki‘i, you know like how we drive
down your road now and there’s the houses on both sides. Was that basically what the
Village was like even up mauka, Waiki‘i Was there a line of houses along a small road
JH: Yes. From the main road, right where the stable is, across.
KM: Yes.
JH: Then they had Hulihia’s house in the corner up there. Then had a road that came along
side Hulihia’s house, and you went right down to the long house, to the camp in the
middle village. Then one road turned, went this way [gesturing towards the Pu‘u
Ku‘ikahekili side], and one road turn, went down the other way [gesturing towards
Kilohana].
KM: So, one to the right and one to the left
JH: My uncle was living down on that side. But the other road goes down around the corner,
then hit the corner. Then from there, it dropped straight down, had about eight homes
down below.
KM: Down below, the big pu‘u is up above [Pu‘u Ku‘ikahekili]
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:433