Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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And you’d go to parties, you’d have several drinks and the policeman would take you
home and put you to bed.
[chuckling]
Today, [chuckles] the policeman stops you and gives you a ticket.
The restaurant was right there where the bank is, [pointing to the present Bank of Hawaii]
and it ran back that way and then the store and the office and the post office.
Okay. Just on the side
This side.
Going towards the Honoka‘a side.
And the postmaster, there was just one postmaster and he did not work full-time in the
post office. He used to help the Parker Ranch office too.
Oh. Do you remember what his name was
[thinking] No, I don’t, but he was a Chinese. Dick-something.
The houses and things that are out here now, just as you’re starting to leave town. There
are some older homes but, and I guess, Pu‘u ‘Öpelu, is down
Pu‘u ‘Öpelu, yes.
Yes. Was this open pasture area also or
There was one house in here.
Hmm.
There were no houses here, the houses…
So Kaniho them
The houses started about [thinking], I guess about here.
Just about ‘Ähuli Street.
Or maybe about six or eight houses, that’s about it. They were ranch houses, where the
ranch employees lived.
Yes, so like Sonny Keäkealani
Keäkealani, right here. [pointing to Keäkealani’s present home]
Who’s the old Japanese man [thinking]
Yamaguchi
Jiro, yeah. Jiro and then Thelma Kaniho, yeah
Yes. And this was all open as it was when I first came on the ranch.
The stables were there.
Keäkealani is no longer with the ranch you know.
Pardon me
Keäkealani is no longer.
Sonny left
Yes.
Was that a part of that down-sizing thing
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:60