mahalo E.B.R. mel’s needs some coaxing but he he’ll have some fun stuff…
aloha fosterboy,
i must be pretty old cuze i forget things everyday…but i have recolections of “savage” with a rust colored ramsey-jay semi-gun nailing a bottom turn at the banzai pipeline i one of val valentines surf flicks… and for 50 cents you were his bro so he could buy a double lunch at campbell school. sorry for the delay come back, i only started reading this thread recently… aloha, old school
going off message briefly, the last swell broght insane surf to this side of the island. its not ewa beach but REAL close and i know alot of you have surfed it at one time or another. here are a few pictures from wed.
~~Aloha!
I can remember when Jim Phillips had some sort of beef with Savage. I think it was about a board that Jim made and Savage “somehow” ended up with. That break looks like the reef off of Hickam that we called “Outsides”.
cleanlines: the short answer is no, wrong spot, i'll PM you the name of the spot. jus keep um on the quiet?
~Aloha!
Yes, mostly all of these names are familiar to me with some exceptions however, just to set the record straight concerning the Shark Country gang lets go back to 1959. The "gang" if you want to call it that consisted of the following....Reno, the caretaker of Hau Bush, Gene and Luther Keahi. Gene and I used to walk to Campbell (Class of 67)Charlie Bell, Mike Mahalovich, William Tom (Black) Rick and Mike Philipps, Mike Oxley, Fred Vogelgesang, and on occasion when the outside reef was breaking, John Sadowski and Barney Silva. Yes, Randy Nii is my brother, I am the oldest. Signed....Still surfing after all these years. M
Campbells
The Ewa Beach History Channel, or what?!
Howzit sharkcountry, I am loving this for reading since you guys are having a reunion right here on Swaylocks. It sounds like you all had a great time growing up there and and this is coming from a haole from S.E. LA which is about 20 miles from the ocean. Keep it up so I can enjoy more. Aloha,Kokua
I finished elementary school at Honowai Elementary in Waipahu. Started 7th grade at Ilima Intermediate when my family moved to Ewa Beach Road, but I think it was called Campbell Intermediate then? so missed the hanna-banna days in Ewa Beach. But it was cool. Everybody got along well. Ewa Beach was a pretty tight, mostly surf-culture community then, with a lot of good surfers and good people from there. Hanging out at the bench at Barney's Burger House, Cueva's wall on Ewa Beach Road, or in front of Robbie MacDonald's house at Lots, Tree House at Coves, Hau Bush, The Puli, The Well... Cruising all the way to Chocolate Beach with a pack of yellow zig-zags to hide from Soto and Harper and listen to Hendrix and Crosby Stills and Nash on 8 track players in our cars. The daze! Great memories that I'll take to the grave, for sure!
aloha powdercoat,
welcome to the ole gang… you had some good bros in your class… nelson oasey, good bradda. very talented, he was the state yoyo champ in the early sixty’s… he was the drummer of a band with henry ah hee, and i can still see him hanging five at the sea wall at pupu place. to bad he was taken from us so early… ernie bisall, gary ramos, were’nt they your neighbors… but you prettiest neighbor surf betty was vickie b…you’ve made me feel younger already just remembering all these guys… did’nt your brother dereck surf… one other guy that i had some fun stories was tom mc chessney… he was one crazy surfer…i surfed sharkcountry alot with him, charlie bell, fred palmeria, and darwin and alan matsushima…these were all guys that past your house on the way to sharkcountry…good fun days…
good to hear from you, i t
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yep. smart guy... you used to surf there?
Hey Powder coat
If M stands for what I think it does then you know what these numbers stand for 193 1171 got a little more than a month left
and I’ll be back. Glad to see you on here
Aloha, Hannya
our family ties like Isaac’s to shark country run deep
funny that almost no one posting here actually still lives in the old Ewa Beach like a handfull of us still do. I guess its one of those places that only lives in losts peoples memories…
I thought it was Correno not Reno at least that what everyone called him when he was over at the Farms house for dinner with all the families. And the Oasay family i believe lived out over at the Del Monte Camp? I went to school and had a crush in elementary school with Nora Oasay who could beat up most off the boys in our class.
Our family building my uncle Sunny Cordes’s beachhouse in the 1930’s-1940’s
Much later in the late 60’s-early 70’s.
Isaac will recognize these folks…
Dad and Moki working the Awa. Food (poke/lomilomi) for all the families. Looking at Uncle Sunny’s house and Auntie Emma’s house next door. Cooking roast pig in the backyard. Moki was a prominent shaper back in the day. Still makes some nice old style longboards when he feels up to it.
Powdercoat, Randy was my friend. He was a year older, but we were friends until he went to Maui. I only saw him a handful of times after that. I was bummed when I heard he had passed away. Kevin Kahalekulu told me about his passing. Randy, Brutus, Kevin and the Bacalsos, were a bunch of my generation of Shark Country surfers who moved over to Maui.
About the time I graduated from high school we all hung out. Randy was living by the A-frame church on Pohakupuna road. We’d hang out there and play guitar with Dean Ornellas and Mark Kahalekulu.
Mike Oxley passed away about a year ago. Next week we say goodbye to Mary Oxley’s husband. Did Mike surf? I married his cousin and he never talked about surfing. He was a really good golfer.
Did you have a blue Datsun 240 or one of those models? I Remember your mom from when we were still in elementary school. She wasn’t afraid to set us straight. And your little sister. I think she was the same age as my little sister, which would be about 4 years younger than Randy.
Aloha.
E Ewa Beach bros, nice old fotos of ka wā ʻopio, when we was young; those were good years; some of the Ewa bros are alive and well here on the Valley Isle; Nathan Moody and Clay Eaton still surf at a high level and Barney Silva has retired up in Makawao to work on boats; I especially liked the foto of you guys cleaning fish by the ocean; were those huge mullet?? Is the Savage you guys talk about Stanley Park from Nanakuli; who else could it be? only one Savage I know; he was hanging with the Alamo crew for a while and I can remember his stylish goofy foot attack on a fine “Trestle Special” he was riding then; had one myself for a spell!! Heard he was a tug capt. doing the interisland runs; tough job!! Anyway, nice memories we all share…kay den…laters…
Mike N and Bennie Oasay both had blue 240 Zs, I think? They were the hottest cars in Ewa Beach at that time. A bunch of people used to hang out at Ewa Beach Park in those days. Paul Peirce with his supped-up cars peeling out down Ft Weaver Road after a few Primos and some Boones Farm Apple Wine (bad combo coming out of your nose after drinking too much). Emua and Trini Pa'aina, Steve Nagagawa, Tommy Phillips, Richard "Murtle the Turtle" Murton, Jimmy Oxley, Jerry Hunter, George Raposa, Jeff and David Raposa, Leo Camacho, Geroge Declue, David Cueva, Glen "Mitz" Mitzuatsu, The Akiona brothers (Frank, Brian and Billy), Kane and Chan Ka'imi... That was a rough gang. I was a young punk then, younger than most of those guys, and one of the rare haolis, but rarely missed the Ewa Beach Park parties cause I could walk down the beach from my house. If my mother only knew.. :-)
I remember Dr. Hayashi's De Tomaso Pantera parked in front of his office on Papipi Street. His son Duane was my classmate in Ewa Beach Elem. That was the coolest car I ever saw back then.
There was a family living next to Leeward park that had a bunch of drag cars. Forgot their name, but they were always driving them up and down the street getting ready for the races. I remember seeing drag cars down by Ewa Beach Road on Ft Weaver.
I'll be seeing Jimmy Oxley next week. He always has us cracking up with his stories about his Ewa Beach days. I'm one of the few relatives who can relate to those crazy stories. I'll try to get him to add some thoughts. Maybe Gutrs can help get him on sways. Mike Phillips may be there as well. He is a close friend of the Oxleys, and helped Jimmy renovate their old house a couple of years ago.
Aloha... Harry
Sharkcountry: I got an e-mail from Jimmy and Mel in Kona 2 days ago. They're checking out this site and laughing. Don't be surprised if you see something from them soon. Jimmy seems to like pounding the key board.. :-) Cheers!
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our family ties like Isaac's to shark country run deep
funny that almost no one posting here actually still lives in the old Ewa Beach like a handfull of us still do. I guess its one of those places that only lives in losts peoples memories..
I thought it was Correno not Reno at least that what everyone called him when he was over at the Farms house for dinner with all the families. And the Oasay family i believe lived out over at the Del Monte Camp? I went to school and had a crush in elementary school with Nora Oasay who could beat up most off the boys in our class.
Our family building my uncle Sunny Cordes's beachhouse in the 1930's-1940's
Much later in the late 60's-early 70's.
Isaac will recognize these folks..
Dad and Moki working the Awa. Food (poke/lomilomi) for all the families. Looking at Uncle Sunny's house and Auntie Emma's house next door. Cooking roast pig in the backyard. Moki was a prominent shaper back in the day. Still makes some nice old style longboards when he feels up to it.
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wow, i cant get enough of those pictures oneula! they are a treasure my friend! and those awa are beautiful! the bread kine awa right? no more that kine hardly. i feel i was ripped off, born 20 years too late! you folks really did enjoy ewa beach at its finest!
btw this thread is interesting as hell! by far my favorite on swaylocks ever since i found it!
~~Ahuihooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!