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 Byron Bader
I guess I must have been about 8 and my brother 11 when we got into this adventure. The Honolulu zoo didn't have a fence around it in the late 1940's and where the current parking lot is located, there was just a long open red dirt area lined with sugar date trees. A stream ran perpendicular through the middle of the zoo and emptied into a pond area, which in turn, entered into the storm drain tunnel under Kapahulu Ave. My brother loved to try to catch the small fish in this
Read more: The Storm Drain Voyagers
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Written by George K. Cabral
We wuz jus' da local kine keeds from Uleawa. I guess we wuz about 10 or 11 yea's old. I shua you seen us in da evenin' going home wit our homemade kine paipfo boards out of plywood, on da top of the rise by Uleawa beach park near da bathhouse.
Our
Read more: Uleawa Days
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Written by Scott Haililani Mahoney
Anyone who grew up in Hawaii, certainly has heard of a little piece of paradise called Kalihi. It's a place where a lot of poor, hard working families raised some of Hawaii's most famous individuals. Kids that believed in themselves and went on to
Read more: In Search of the Old Lychee Tree
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Written by Izzie Kikue
One time one bunch of us wen go beach (what else get fo do? Go library and study?? I no teenk so) and while all da ress of my friends was having fun bodysurfing, I wen go busy myself catching as much small baby ghost crabs as I could... You know da
Read more: You Like See Crabs?
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Written by Liz Seal
We used to live near McCully Street on Oahu. My Filipino friend Nani and me was some poor. So poor sometimes my doll was a coconut that I wen draw a face on and wrap in a blanket. So, of course, we couldn't afford lots of stuff.
Nani taught me a
Read more: Island Shopping for Slippas
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Written by Izzie Kikue
A lot of us brought up on the islands have fond memories of swimming, body surfing, and perhaps even surfing the wild, wild surf dat our islands are famous fo. Well, here is one hannabuddah story dat some of you may be able to relate to. Read
Read more: A Day at Waimea
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Written by Ronny Esperas
I was a junior in high school when I first met Wally. He just finished a tour in Viet Nam. The first thing noticed about Wally was his size. He was a hulking of a human being, well over six feet-four inches about two hundred seventy pounds and not a
Read more: The Biggest Kanaka I Ever Met In My Life
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Written by Ronson Kamalii
I was born and bred in Hilo, Hawaii. And like every other local kanaka, we would hear those stories about haunted places that you didn't think were quite true, but were too chicken to question it. Well, this is one of those instances where bravery
Read more: Haunted Hilo Hospital
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Written by Kamaka Brown
An AlohaWorld Forum Collaboration Edited by Kamaka Brown
When I was small, my fuddah used to tell me stories about the legendary Mongoose Man. Me and my kid bruddah used to stay awake long after we was supposed to be sleeping and talk about
Read more: The Mongoose Chronicles
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