Yo Cleigh, nice to hear from you. You are right, Maalona was called "Maalona two times" I remember Pulitasi. I shot him in the forehead with my pump action Daisy BB gun while we were hunting rats in the Keawe trees behind Leeward Etates with Francisco Mendoza and Frank Ouano. Yes I remember Doug Kingsley, I played football with him when I moved up to the varsity after JV was finished. Clay and Daryral Nelson, yes those two could box. Clays brother Roy could beef too. I see Mickey Leahy every once in a while. He owned a popcorn company at one time. I believe he lives in Maui now. Talk later, Aloha, Mike PS...Still tracking on getting everyone together again perhaps September sometime. Exact location and date still to be detemined. Need help to get the word out to all these "Swaylockers". You guys can email me at hamon@hawaii.rr.com
Hey Butch, small world. I work at Schofield with one of your friends. His name is Reggie Rowland. Talks about you ripping up Lani's all the time. I tell him I used to surf with you at Shark Country in the early 60's. Yes the little place on the corner of Makule and Ft Weaver road was called Beach corner. It was also called Pizza Palace at one time and the last owner was of course Kam's. Not sure of the name of the small saimin place in Honouliuli but Nelson Oasay and myself used to eat "large and large" over there. It actually was a large saimin and a large Fried noodles that we combined in one bowl. Was so ono. After pau, we used to go swim in the Flume behind Ewa hospital where the Artesian well was and also Pump 9. Used to ride my bike on the canefield road from Papipi Rd. to Tenney Center to eat Veal Cutlet. Only $1.10 for the plate. Can you imagine.... I see Charley M and Mike Gionson surfing at Sand Tracks every now and then. The Italian restaurant was called Casa Mia. Famous for the lasagna (spell?). Ewa Pool used to be full with Tilapia when they had the Ewa Carnival there. you could fish for them for 1 script. Hope this brings back memories. Aloha, Mike N.
Howzit again!!!..just a short note on Barney Silva and brother Nathan…Barney is alive and well and semi retired in Makawao, Maui, working on boats at his large homestead upcountry…he has a nice big shop and keeps busy doing fabrication with cloth and resin…itʻs a longshot heʻll ever post on Sways but letʻs hope he does!!!..Nate is thriving down country in Kihei …loves to dive and fish…works magic on surfboards and hand boards and makes nice handcrafted shell pieces…plus brother can still shred waves like no nuff…aloha aku nei i koʻu hoapili…keiki o ke kai ʻo ia…E Cleigh…pehea ka piko??..Haʻo wau ka ʻike ʻana iā ʻoe…manaʻo lana wau ka maikaʻi nau i na mea āpau !!!..so ends some small news from Maui…a hui hou…Kapalulu
Yeah, I know Reggie well, he’s good friends with my son’s gang and I see him surfing regularly. He goes everyday, Lani’s and Jocko’s. that area. i also know Randy Narvares. he works with Reggie I think. Good guys… It would be nice to hear from Barney Silva to get the stories from that generation of surfers in EB. All tied into our roots, one generation after another. Good to hear about all the guys are doing well. Would be good for all of us to get together. Never went to any Campbell reunions, (class of 71), I get all my information from my sisters in EB.Ewa Beach changed so much from those days…
Hey Mike, I remember people taking about Beach Corner, but I don’t remember going there, I must be too young. Casa Mia was the first place I ever saw Lasagna, that was Ono. My generation guys would order take out when SC was going off and then eat it on the shoreline where Reno’s house was at Haubush.
Butch, the only thing I regret about not going up to the NS anymore are the days at Lani’s when it’s good. So many great memories from the late 70’s up there when a crowd was just a handful or more. I still have images in my head of one great day out there when you and Frank Aragon were out and shredding. Most of those days I was with Mark Kahalekulu who was a KS’74 grad and lived by the Fire Station on Pohakupuna St. His mother had several houses in that area. For a while Randy Nii was living in one of them by the A-frame church and I think next to the Southern Baptist Church on Pohakupuna St. I think that was about mid 1976.
The Kahalekulu family was a long time EB family too. Mark has an older brother and sister who must be about 1960’s grads, but probably Kamehameha.
Stanley Parks is posting on the In Memorium thread here. He is looking for information about Kevin John’s funeral services.
Brah! You had me cracking up about Puli! Alamo is right, Barney Silva probably will not go online. Nate and I are trying to help evin Johns daughters with his memorial on 2/04/12. Mike, I am already trying to coordinate neighbor island guys about Ewa Beach. Would be great if different age group guys step up to the plate to help coordinate and be contacts. I take care of Maui and coordinate Hawaii island with Issac and Mel B. This is my email: akea_e10@hotmail.com
i hear you about Laniakea, nowadys too crowded, some day i look and turn around and go surf upside. Some days though it is not crowded. i see Ralph Palmera there sometimes. Frank Aragon is there all the time - always checking the waves, in the parking lot more that the line up. Just like Campell days, more in the parking lot then the school… some guys never made it into the classroom. Also about Randy Nii living in house by the Baptist church, i see John Abilla all the time and he talks about living there for a while, I think with Dean Ornellas and some other guys, is that the same house and same time?
I go to Ewa Beach Road to visit my mom and dad. I’ll try to get ahold of John Sadowski and let him in on the get together. Maybe he’s got an email. I see him in his front yard checkin the waves. I also see Frank Aragon all the time up here, he lives by pupukea. Let me know if you need help. My email is wmb0775@yahoo.com
Hi Butch, you are right about the house. John was there and Dean too. Dean used to play guitar really good. Sometimes Mark K would play with Dean and sometimes Randy would play guitar. That was a hang out place in the mid 70’s. In June of '76 I went to Seattle and lived with my brother for the summer to get away from the craziness we getting into. When I came back things seemed very different. By Oct of '76 I was working full time in town doing the night shift and going to HCC in the mornings. In 1982, I moved to town and have been a towny ever since. I think I stopped going up to the NS by 1988, just did the west side. The black shorts really changed the vibe on the NS, especially at the breaks on the north side of Waimea. I used to love Kammi’s, but too many times Eddie and Squiddy or Bernie Baker or even Fat Paul would come out and just be dropping in on any wave they wanted. And they weren’t that good surfers either.
I think Randy and Brutus moved to Maui shortly after that. David Bacalso ended up there working for the Air Force too. I haven’t seen most of those guys since about 1978 or 1979.
Unlike the Campbell HS crew, I was a Kamehameha kid. There were lots of other SC surfers my age I knew, but didn’t go to school with. David Arioli, Scott Kauihou, Joey Gaynor, Kelly Ikehara, Scott Hanaoka, Glenn Santiago and a few others were all my EB Elem classmates that surfed SC regularly.
Every now and then I run into Ralph Palmeira in town either at Courts or Cliffs. He usually uses boards he made for his daughter.
Town may not have the challenging waves like the NS, but it’s a fun place to surf and the waves are always the same. I like surfing with old guys like those in their 60’s and older. They are so much mellower, and some can still rip.
hau oli makahiki hou to all the ewa beach braddas… ho every body was was taking a brake o what…there was small kind lull on this tread, but good to see the stories going again…
the original beach corner was owned and run by the Kaneko family… mr. Kaneko was a plumber and mrs. Kaneko cooked and ran the resturant… i think about their hamberger steak with onions and gravy and wonder if it was as good as i think it was or was it just because i was young and things are different as we age… any way i would travel a long way to eat it again…
it’s funny how we think life was better in the past… i use to think 60 years old was an old man but in less than a week my twin brother Cleigh who is some hours older than me but recorded as a day since his b-day is the 23 and mine is the 24, our mother had a long labor, just like Arnold Swatisniger??? and Danny Devito, twins… any ways i don’t think 62 is old at all, i could still kick my 25 year old self in the ass if i had to scrap with me…so are things really what we think it was or are we not letting ourselves have as much fun as when we were kids… i like to think its the second and i just have to make it happen again… the japanese culture celebrate 60 years of age as a milestone and call it “second childhood”… i know amoungest us on this thread, Cleigh, Mike Nii, and i can be considered ‘elders’ but most of you that are responding on this thread who were considered young punks by us when we were 20 are now 55 and older and are speeding faster than they’d like to catch up to masters division …so for us survivers we gotta keep going man, look at Uncle Rabbit, he still goes…a reunion of Puuloa would be pretty awsome…
Yes, Randy Navares too. Good guy and good friend of mine. My sister Sonja and your sister Lorrie, that is your sister isn't she? are very good friends. Sonja has been living in Florida for a long time now. Our class of 1967 has a reunion this September. Always good fun. Talk later, aloha, Mike
Butch, I believe I have John Sadowski's email. Let me check and I'll get back to you. I talk to him every once in a while. He's still ripping up Empty Lots with Ronald Gionson. Mike
Randy, David and John Bacalso, Brutus, Mark K. all moved and lived close by in Maui. My brother Kirby and I use to go visit Randy and surf Honolua. Unreal wave. Randy surfing in Heaven now. David Arioli delivers mail to my house now. I surf SC with Ralph Palmeira, Joey Gaynor, HF and his brothers, sometimes John Mitsuyasu shows up. Awesome when Seawall catches the big west swell in the wintertime and wraps around to Seawall. 4-6 feet rights with perfect off shore winds. Scott Kauihou was my neighbor on Papipi Rd in the late 50's. Talk later, Mike
Aloha Ike. I keep getting these things with your name, then when I go to the website I have to sign up and join, but I no like join, I hope I don’t offend you.
Mike N. you just let out a secret. The right at seawall is one of the best rights in EB. Caught it one year with my brother and the O’Reilly boys at its best. Solid overhead+ and going all the way to the inside. Love it when the take off is a big bowl, and the wave just bends down all the way. Then again when Sandtracks is good it can be really good.
Joey said the 2011 swell was the best in many years, maybe 2012 will be kind to us and give us a little more of our home break at its best.
I always respected your brother Randy. He was a no BS guy, but then in EB BS got you into a lot of trouble with others. Keep it straight up or you better shut up. We had good times when we were young, and a great year down at the house by the church. He married a girl who was best friend’s with a very close friend of mine from Maui, Kim Yoshimura.
Met Sadowski at Mike Oxley’s funeral. He was in great shape and said he was taking care of his mother and was back surfing lots. He was with Gionson and their wives. I think my brother Bernie sees the guys that surf at Sandtracks, but I don’t get home to surf much.
Aloha to all, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at the get together. Our world is such a small place, we are all connected one way or another.
