Bet you Bill and Ronald, and Anthony and Mike Gionson, and Charly and Glenn Mizunaka, and probably Barney Silva, Lesta Boy, and Sadowskey’s
rememba Solly Ward. And Allen and Judy Unigues, and Lester Rabacal, but he passet on already. Dino dug it up. Right on my brother.
Paul Shepard
Remeber Silva’s Store had the soda cooler outside the store on the left hand side. And when you open the lid they no can see if you wen put money in and slide the soda over . So just open da soda with a bottle opener and drink it with a straw. Just kids neva mean no harm. Neva grow up yet. Ride bike, skim board, surf board, boat, whatevas, through the lake in front of Silva’s Store after a good rain. P.S.
I went to school with Solly, he is on Classmates
Okay folks, just checked in with Mike Nii. Will be there with one guest (wife Donna), and a mess o' chili and rice. Gotta get my guns back in shape so I can paddle the nice 8-0 mini tank my kids bought me. Gotta prove I still surf better than sister Jan (Sojot).
Tim Tucker, Joey Gaynor, you gotta show up so I won't be the youngest one there!
Aloha from Kauai.
Tom Clements, aka Flagpoles, aka skinny kid on Ewa Beach Rd with the red afro...
MY FAVORITE BROTHER PAUL SHEPHARD. DO YOU REMEMBER OUR CUB SCOUT LEADER MRS. SILVA, WHO LIVED UP ON FT. WEAVER, BY OUR HOUSE. I WAS
THINKING ABOUT THE TIMES WE SAT IN THE CAR AT NIGHT, ACROSS HER HOUSE
WITH THE CANS OF FROST PURSUING COMPLETE MENTAL LOSS, AND BALLOON
COLORED PICTURES PAINTED BY FAUST. REMARKABLE HOW THE YEARS HAVE
FLOWN BY. REMEMBER OUR BOY SCOUT MASTER MR. MURAKAMI, WHO LIVED ON
MAKULE ROAD, AND THE TIME WE WERE UP AT PUPUKEA WITH THE KENDALLS
AT A JAMBOREE SLEEP OUT, AND I LED EVERYONE ON A HIKE, AND WE NEARLY GOT LOST FOR SIX HOURS, BEFORE FINDING OUR WAY BACK TO CAMP? TALKING ABOUT SOLLY WARD, I BELIEVE HE WENT ON TO BECOME A FAMOUS
ATTORNEY. TAKE CARE YOU GENTLEMEN. UNTIL THE NEXT WAVE COMES IN.
BROTHER NAKY
Brother Paul nice to hear from you. I remember the day you jammed at Steve Kendall's
with Stan Mishina and Scott Taylor on my Orion amp. I'm shure you still have it. I'm am
looking into starting a Blues Band early next year, after I get my fiction novel sent to press,
and I'll be calling on your guitar mistroship. So many memories. Remember Kathy Lavin,
Sarah Canfield, and Sandra Blackwelder? How about Penny Toothman? See you when the
next Big Wave comes in. Naky Anderson
Paul remember us sitting on the stone wall in front of Jimmy Ha store, after we
got done surfing the Lots on a big day. Well, when we was smaller, the waves
when look more big anyway. We sat there with two orange soda or RC cola's,
and raced to see who could finish them first. Then Dave Cueva, Rocky, Mike,
or Bolo would come by, and we would drink some more, and go home with a
stomach ache and couldn't eat dinner. You still teaching at Luke Houc Hu's
in Kaimuki? Have you been out to Cromwell's to surf anymore? Have you seen
Rick Parish anywhere? How's Outside Reef by Puuloa Park, or Sand Barr break?
Naky Anderson
Some of the best days in my surfing years were when we went out in the afternoon at treestumps 3 to 4ft sets, clean offshore breeze and nobody was out. Sharkcountry and coves were pumping too, anyway Mark Porter, Jim Green, and Gene Okamura and I, we were all stoned and we surfed and a good time. That evening I went to the civic and Led Zepplin had a open floor concert, It was insane! Peterboy, Mike chevelier and some other guys that I just forgot but it cost only $5 or 10 bucks back then. Anyway, Peace.
Tom Clements and Jan Sojot managed to rent the 2 pavilons next to the one that Mike N rented. This should help.
Roy, I went to that led Zeplin concert with Murtle, Rob and Shirley. Sat right in front of the stage on the floor. One of the best concerts I ever went to! The daze... Aloha, Mike B
Cool, the sounds we had back then were so good because certain groups or songs ment something or a place, Ten years after, Savoy brown, Mayall, poco harum, neil yong, and Black sabbath was just crazy. When I first heard Black Sabbath man that was deep, but the war and alot of other trips going on made us appreciate what we had, waves and family. Peace
Thanks for the invite. I will try to make it. Work is really getting in the way of fun..................
Reading all the posts brings back many great memories.
Surfing at Shark Country, Seawalls and Coves with everyone. Diving for lobsters (hard to find now), fish and Tako. and of course of all the great people, some of the wildest characters I have ever known.
Skip Wilson, Jake Gaynor, Weasel, Tracy Clay, Danny and Mike Bell (Ma and Pa Bell), Tommy and Mike Phillips, Ontai's, Randy Santiago, Casey Fernandez, Kimo Kauiho, Brutus Gardiner, The Orielly's (HF, Thomas, Sean, Peter, Maria), Tornquists (Bruce and April), Guy Kamaka (He is my uncle by marriage), Todd Wenke, The Gardiner's, Freeman's, James gang (Mark, Matt and Paul), The Bower's (Bob and Debbie), The Adam's (Terry and Carl) The Need's (David, Mike, Chris, sister), Arioli's (Ron and David), Lani and Nina Risner, Ewa Beach Road Guys and Gals, Ewa Guys and Gals, Steve Kendell and his Band, Black Eagle, and so many more, my memory is fading...............
Not enough time to get in shape. Will have to wear a wetsuit or tight surf shirt............
Hey Tim. Nice Uhu! Still diving Ewa Beach reefs I see. Cool. You and Dan and KC had the squid-eye back in the daze. See you in Ewa Beach soon! Alohas, Mike
Aloha Tim Tucker - Good to hear from U. as 4 the boys down E.B. Road Cleigh, Paul S. Nate. Butch. and so on this guy Tim Tucker’s father was married to Guy Kamaka’s sister. i guess he was young boy when he came to Ewa Beach. I don’t know where he got his skills but the cat can dive. If not mistaking he retied as a HardHat diver diving for oil companies on those platforms, places like Africa, Scotland, etc, etc. i must say Mr Tucker i admired U… In my dreams i wanted to do that but never pursued it. Aloha T.P. Excuse the spelling on retired
Howzit TP.
You do have the squid eye and beat me any day.
I got lucky with the UHU.
Where did all the lobsters go? If anyone knows, you do.......
54 Divers were killed in the North Sea when I was there. I was lucky to work with some great divers from the Seal Teams and Marines coming back from Vietmam.
You would have fit right in..........
Aloha, TT
Nice Uhu! Where get puhi going get lobsters! try further out. No like tell all da secret hole yeah.
Kahu Cleigh Original EB RD. guy from 50-60’s-left early 70’s. to Maui. Kou mama, noho oia o Puuloa! Nana kakou o Puuloa! See you there!
Nice Uhu! Where get puhi going get lobsters! try further out. No like tell all da secret hole yeah.
Kahu Cleigh Original EB RD. guy from 50-60’s-left early 70’s. to Maui. Kou mama, noho oia o Puuloa! Nana kakou o Puuloa! See you there!
aloha squideye, i knew who Uncle Frank was by name but i did’nt know him personlly…when he moved to kona, he had a boat moored next to a friends boat that Fred Palmeria maintained so Fred use to talk to him alot…on another note, back in the 70’s i made my first boat that was just a flat bottom skif that Stan Ornellas and i took it out to’ three stumps’ on its maidan voyage… we it was only a 12 foot row boat and we had no idea about boating so we carried it out over the rocks and proceeded to row out…i had never rowed a boat before, but any way we were off just in time to be paddleing out into a set… the wave were only about 2 feet but it was enough to swamp us competelly…huli maka flip…there were some fishermen casting on the shore line that was having the greatest laugh…i was so embarrased, i told Stan lets just abandon the boat and go home but the wave actully pushed the boat to shore so we managed to bale the water out with the help of the fishermen and we loaded the boat on my truck and took it home…i ended up giving the skiff to George K. …i don’t know what happened to it after that…
aloha Oneula, sorry to hear about your appendix blowing up… that can be a devestating life occurance which i’m sure i don’t have to tell you about…my father nearly died when he was young and had a ruptured appnendix… my brother had to have his appendix removed when he was in his teens… i’m the only male in my immediate family that has not had it removed…any way i hope you will be feeling good enough to attend the paina… i was showing my common law lady, Birdie, the picture that you posted of you, Harry and Masterson? and she said, oh yeah i went school with him… so any way she had called Etta Dias to join us cuze she neva like be hanging with all strangers… so i guess you guys can have small kine class reunion…i actully have met a few of your classmates over the past 14 years…
Howzit Tim , me again. just responding to your lobster question? U know , i was going to ask U the same thing. The only kind " papapa " i’ve seen and or caught in the last 5-8 yrs in Ewa Beach is slipper lobster. The only reason 4 this " i would think " is chemical runoff from housing & golf course developement. U know this place already. without the big money we cannot fight the big corporations. i know, u as well as myself have been involved in a few battles without success. Anyway Aloha 4 now. T.P.
RE: Squideye- You mentioned Guy Kamaka. In 63 a Hawaiian guy rented surfboards at O. Beach.So he asked me to help him rent the boards Aloha He went off to some party at the Swabbies beach and didn’t come back until dark. Meanwhile my folk’s left me at O. Beach and went home to Pearl City peninsula where we lived right on Pearl Harbor. I didn’t know what to do since I was 14 at the time. So Guy Kamaka comes over and says that I can spend the night at his house. So, we walk all the way down the back road from Barbers then past the little shopping area. Then another mile on foot to Guy’s house. He goes in and asks his parents if I can spend the night, I hear some arguing, they say no Haoles.So he grabs 2 pillows and 2 thin blankets and we set out back to Johns beach (the cove). But first we dined at Barneys for a lovely plate lunch. Then back to where we stashed our boards. It was a very long, uncomfortable night. We wake up at about 5:30 a.m. We look out at the waves and everywhere you looked was huge waves for miles! The 2 of us paddle out at the Cove, or Johns beach as we called it then. These were the biggest waves I ever saw in the EwaBeach area, a solid 6 to 10 feet + I saw Guy drop into a wave that when he hit the bottom was at least 2 and a half times him standing at the bottom of the wave! We surfed hard and with fear for 3 hous, until our arms were so fatigued we could hardly paddle. No one out except us!! We went in and walked with our boards to O. Beach where it was closed out, except for the outer reef. There was a few guys on the beach by then but no one went out, it was too big for these guys. At first there was no wind! But you fellas know Ewa, the trade winds picked up and made just about perfect waves into stormy type waves that were hard to surf at that size. I’m proud to say that Guy Kamaka and me Troy Mize surfed some of the greatest waves I ever saw in Ewa Beach. My Dad finally came out and got me around 4:00 p.m. and yelled at me the entire way home. But if the Kamakas would have let me spend the night, Guy and myself wouldn’t have got to surf those fabulous waves with no wind for about 3 hours! That was July (I think) of 1963! I didn’t see Guy Kamaka again for six years when he came home on R&R from Nam. And that night me and him went to see Jimi Hendrix at the Waikiki shell in the summer of 69, I had great times with Guy Kamaka he was a very good surfer (goofy foot) and a great friend then! I will never forget my times surfing with him and of course the 2 nights at the Shell with Jimi Hendrix! Aloha, Troy Mize
Guy Kamaka…he taught me to surf at O Beach in "63, and that clarified what was important for a long time. And Jimi, at the Shell…played two nights, the first night he didn’t like the sound system, so he shut down the show, and told everyone to keep the ticket stub and come back. I tried to sell mine…can’t remember if I actually sold it or not…imagine, here you are a Jimi Hendrix ticket stub, he’s going to redo the concert tomorrow, this will get you in…right. I don’t think I sold it…
