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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.

 


 

Swimming at Grandma's House

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Who ever came up with the idea that you had to count to 100 after you pau eating and before you go swim? I remember small kid time all our cousins being at grandma's house and as soon as we swallowed the last bite we would start counting. Couldn't count to fast bumbye grandma make us start all over. From about 1 to 50 we just cleaning up and cruising but when we getting closer, we start taking off the t-shirts and walking down to the pool. At around 80 we're all counting together and getting

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Daddy & Da Eggs

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I grew up in Waimanalo back in the 60s & 70s with my 4 younger sisters, 1 younger brother, Mom,Dad, & Grandma. We lived in a small brick house with only 3 bedrooms so I never had myown room until I was grown and married (even then I had to

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Call Me Crazy... but...

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I had this crazy penchant to share and compare my hanabuddah childhood memories with same kine folks that wen' grow up in the Kaimuki District in Honolulu and other places around the Islands.

It all started one day when I was bored sitting at the

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Age of Innocence

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Sometimes, I'm still amazed that after almost thirty six years, the memory of what happened in October, 1963, is still so clear to me. Sadly enough, not all memories of those "hannabuddah days" are pleasant ones. But when you're barely fourteen

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Anahola Lighthouse

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Dis was the old cannery days when you gotta get up early in the morning, like 3:00am to get ready for the girls to pick you up to go work carpool style way up in Kapaa. We lived about 25 miles away and those days 25 miles was so fa, that the ride

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Kunia Lust

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I was 16 and she was 22. I was brown and she was haole. I was a high school drop out, she was married then divorced. I was in love. Maybe it was the twilight reflecting her red hair that triggered the chemistry between us. She was everything to me

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Free Fall from 30 Feet

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I wen grad high school and was I getting ready to leave for the army when my girlfriend wen just broke up with me-- because she no like long distance kine relationship, yea?

Needless to say, the bradda was bummed- dejected, rejected, and like go

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