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Remember YOUR "small keed time"?

Those were the good old days! YOU were young, innocent, naive and maybe even a little bit "kolohe" (rascal). When you look back, I bet you cannot help but grin, yeah?  I bet you can just feel a longing oozing up inside of you for a time when life was much simpler. Wherever you live now, if you grew up in Hawaii, you must remember your "hanabuddah days". Eh, no shame ... we all had "hanabuddah".

Eh … right now get choke stories already online written by Hawaiians and Hawaiians at heart. Most all writers had the unique life experience of growing up in Hawaii. That’s why the site is called ”Hanabuddah Days”.

Enjoy these personal stories.

 


 

Ewa Beach

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Moved to Ewa Beach in 1958 when Damon Tract was being razed. Lived at the end of Papipi Rd, where the gravel road starts. There were 2 houses and trailer. Our house was closest to the reef. My cousin Clayton Haumea and I would go diving in the reef. About a 100 yards out, we found a hole in the reef about 12 feet deep with a sandy bottem. We scoped out where we were so we could find it again. I remember my dad telling me where there's lobster, there are morays and tako. You look at the lobsters

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Damon Tract

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My dad, mom and I moved to Damon Track in 1953 Went to Kaloaloa, and Kalakaua until we had to move out for the "new airport". Lived on Q road in the back side of a duplex, below Kaimana Rd. Our back yard shared a fence with Asagi's Farm. We grew

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Rabbit Ears

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My fuddah wen get one job in the city and he sed no ways he wuz going drive from North Shore to townside so we stay go move to Punchbowl.  Hoo dat means had foah change school la dat. Junk cuz I had all my frendz from kinny garden in Waialua

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French Class

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THE CLASS WAS SPLIT in half, with two rows of chairs facing each other. Miss Davies, a heavyset teacher in a tailored blue muumuu, rambled on in Parisian behind a podium fronting the chalkboard. Speaking English was interdit. Students were to keep

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Farewell Uncle

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I was a young man when my Uncle BoBo,  came into my life.  He was lovable, caring, and outgoing.   My first impression of him was, "Eh! Auntie where you wen find this crazy Puerto-Rican?"  He looked like one of the guys from

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Pukalani Paradise

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Aloha! My name is Aurora, and I was born on Oahu but also grew up on Maui. Living in Hawaii as a child brought me the BEST childhood memories and these stories are what I will be sharing.

We lived upcountry in Pukalani where the view from our backyard were a few homes, miles of sugar cane and the ocean in the distance. At night when the cane fields were burned, the orange glow from the fire was hypnotic. During the day, we would see ashes floating in the sky, and I would jump in the air trying to catch one, hoping to not crush it between my fingers. I loved our home in Pukalani for many reasons.

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In the Gardens of Sugar and Pineapples, Part Four: An Old Friend Passes and a New Friends Appear

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  It was a month before school started in September. I had one more year and I would be done with 8th grade in Koloa Elementary School. I was very ready for high school. "Eh, you guys think going be hard in high school?" "Yeah, my brother

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