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.
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Written by Helene Fernandez
Growing up with Grandma and Papa in the 70's was the best. Papa worked as a foreman for a steel or iron works company. Not too sure the name of the company. Grandma stayed at home and did the house stuff. Mom and Dad were divorced. Mom lived close by at the Circle Jade building in Kaimuki, across from the original W&M. She worked nights driving the Wiki-Wiki bus at the airport. Dad was a truck driver. So that's why my older sis, younger brother and myself lived with Grandma and
Read more: Grandma and Papa’s in Palolo Valley
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Written by Helene Fernandez
Forget about the evictions and all the media propaganda surrounding Sand Island in the 70's. I am unable to recollect the legalities of the time when my Grandparents lived at Sand Island, but camping out or "living" at Sand Island, from what I can
Read more: Days and Nights at Sand Island
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Written by R. Mapuana Cottell
My tutu has always been the type of person to take charge of everything. He's never been very good at remembering names. Instead of trying to remember, he'd just classify us into two groups- boys were "Louie" and girls were "Lucy."
My cousins and I
Read more: The Governor of Namilimili Street
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Written by Ronny Esperas
I lived in a neighborhood where the corner market was the place that you came in contact with other people from the neighborhood. It was a place where everyone knew each other, not only by name, but they knew your kid's name, their mother's and
Read more: The Wilder Store Bench
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Written by Hilary Fong Wong (St. John) as told to Paul St. John
This is a story my dad, who was born in a plantation camp called Ola'a 9 Miles, told me. I guess it was because it was nine miles outside of Ola'a.
He told me that in the camp, all of the kids were taken care of by everyone. If one of them
Read more: Bad Day at Ola’a 9 Miles
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Written by R. Mapuana Cottell
I am thankful to the Lord above for many things. I am glad that He saw fit to bless me with a husband who loves me enough to want me home with these two precious kids of ours. I am thankful that I was given the opportunity to be born to two island
Read more: Hula on the Brain
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Written by Douglas-Bryant L. Souza
Back in the 70's wen Oahu wuzent as crowded, I had an unko Tony and his family that had a place down North Shoa side of Oahu. It wuz not far from Kami's store Mauka of Kam Highway. That time we used to go visit him during the summa months. He had
Read more: North Shoa
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Written by Serina Cornelio
We just got back from da beach and my dad made all us kids line up in da front yard. He was going shoot us down with da water hose (da water was freezin) to get all da excess sand off of us before we got to go in da house. When we got in da house my
Read more: Da Cockroach in Da Armpit
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Written by Kawika Gapero
This story may not be your typical funny incident or normal "hanabuddah" type story you may have read. I felt that the treasure of my life experiences might give you a different perspective on what it was like being Hawaiian in a changing time. The
Read more: Being Hawaiian and American
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