Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

AL: Cordeiro yes, was the Portuguese family here.
KM: That was baking still yet
AL: She makes Portuguese bread, you know the regular bread.
KM: Yes.
AL: People that were there will order, we’d buy, they bake.
KM: Yes. How much was it a loaf, I think you shared with me
AL: That was about two pound loaf, twenty-five cents.
Group: [chuckles]
KM: Too good! This was still in the early ‘30s
HK: Yes, early ‘30s.
KM: Because you look at those stone ovens today with the mortar on top. It looks like if you
just put a door on top you could still use it, I think.
AL: Yes, I’m pretty sure it can be used yet.
KM: Oh gosh! Are there some recollections or thoughts that you folks have remembering from
Waiki‘i, working, or out to Ke‘ämoku. Actually I do…one of the things that all of you had
shared was that there was a close relationship with the families here. Is that right
Group: [all agree]
KM: The families all lived here. They kökua, help one another
DN: Yes. They shared whatever they had.
KM: Yes. Did you folks travel from here back to Waimea frequently or not too often
DN: Once a week.
KM: Once a week, oh, well that’s not bad.
DN: Once a week.
KM: I hear before it was hardly, not too often yes this was kind of an out-camp. Is that right
EK: Out-post.
Travel on the Saddle Road in the years prior to World War II:
KM: Out-post like Did you folks sometimes also travel from Waiki‘i then out to the Pöhakuloa,
Humu‘ula section
HK: Traveling here is mainly because it’s part of your work.
KM: Yes.
HK: We do travel where the work requires you to go. And normally, you go up this way to
Humu‘ula side, it’s a day’s job.
KM: Yes.
HK: There’s so many gates coming up to Waiki‘i.
DN: And the roads were not paved.
HK: Yes, that’s right.
DN: Was dirt road.
HK: Dirt road.
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