Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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That’s right.
You get a heavy rain and your ground is all soaked, and that’s why you have a good
year.
Of course.
They say, that it’s because of the snow, so I think that’s right.
Yes. You know, it’s just observing what’s going on.
Logical.
Yes. That’s Pu‘u Ku‘ikahekili right there.
I never knew that before. We used to call that Hill Fence.
Hill Fence. I think you’ll see the name on the map.
Got anything to do with old Kahekili
Well, ku‘i means to strike, maybe at one point the hill was struck by lightning, you know.
Ku‘i kahekili, strike of the lightning.
Oh, yes.
The old road that’s laid out on that 1869 map comes along there, and then starts cutting
out somewhere here.
This side
Yes. Now these houses up here…
Does it come makai of the hill
No, it’s on just the mauka side of the hill.
Okay.
[pointing to the old Wireless Station] These houses here, Waiki‘i, this is a part of the
Parker Ranch housing or…
Well, you see that tall building there, that tall building
Yes.
That building and the next building on the right, were put up by the telephone company.
Oh, you’re kidding!
And they used to call it Mutual Telephone. Because that was the only way that they could
relay stuff. They had no way to…this place, you could beam the telephone line...see it
was all direct.
Right, right.
At Waiki‘i, you can get stuff from all around.
Yes, because of it’s elevation.
And that’s why they had the telephone company up here.
These went up in the thirties or These houses [on the left side of the road], or later you
think
No, might have been the twenties, late twenties.
When the phones first came.
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