Johnny Naumu

Johnny Naumu The Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) was the first professional football team to play a regular season game in Los Angeles; John (Johnny) Punualii Naumu played on the team. Naumu, born September 30, 1919 (a McKinley High School graduate) played football for UH and US and went on to serve with the Hawaii Army National Guard He retired as a Colonel, receiving numerous ribbons and medals of honor. Naumu died September 23, 1982 of heart failure playing racquetball. (As an aside, while at UH, Naumu captured the novice handball title.) He is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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Walter Murray Gibson Building

Walter Murray Gibson Building In 1834, King Kamehameha III organized the first police force in the Hawaiian Islands. This was only four years after the inception of London's first police force, and twelve years before that of any American city. In 1885, a site at Bethel and Merchant Streets was purchased and a brick Police Station constructed (it was built while Walter Murray Gibson was Premier and Minister of Interior.) In 1930, this building was demolished and a new one built; the new structure is known as the Walter Murray Gibson Building (it is a three-story (with basement) Mediterranean-style reinforced-concrete building.) The Police Department left the building in 1967, when they moved to the old Sears store in Pawaʻa. The Old Police Station, or Court Building as it was also known, continued to house the District Courts.

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Drying Tower

Drying Tower In 1870, the tallest structure in Honolulu was the bell tower of Central Fire Station, then-located on Union Street. Spotters would sit in the tower, ready to sound the alarm. Back in those early days, firefighting equipment was primarily buckets and portable water supplies. As the department grew, several hand-drawn engine companies were added. But bucket brigades were very labor intensive and very ineffective. Hawaiʻi later used the rubber lined, cotton covered hoses. But the hoses cotton could rot, so they needed to be dried to prevent mold. As they built new fire houses, a drying tower was added to the main fire house, so the hoses could be hung up to dry.

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Protecting a Forest, Preserving a Culture

Protecting a Forest, Preserving a Culture It takes 125 years or more to grow a koa log large enough for a canoe, which generally needs to be 35 to 45 feet long with a diameter of 48 inches or more (voyaging canoes require larger logs.) That period may be shortened if specific koa logs are identified for canoes now, and forestry prescriptions (e.g. thinning, pruning) are applied to favor the growth of those trees for canoe logs. In 2004, DLNR initiated the formal designation of the Kapapala Koa Canoe Forest Management Area on land set-aside in 1989, near the Volcano National Park, in Kaʻū, on the Big Island. Here, koa trees grow tall and straight – necessary traits for core material in canoe shaping. It was the first Forest Management Area specifically designated for nurturing and harvesting koa canoe logs.

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Ranks of Chiefs

Ranks of Chiefs Each Hawaiian was born into a class of people, and at the top were the rulers, a small but powerful class of chiefs, known as the aliʻi and in those days, the aliʻi was the government. The aliʻi were not all equal in rank, it is just a word that people are accustomed to using – they give the name aliʻi to all those from the very high to very low rank. In olden times, the kinds of aliʻi were classified according to their birth and the height at which each aliʻi stood.

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Duke Kahanamoku Beach

Duke Kahanamoku Beach His family was living in a small house on the beach at Waikiki where the present day Hawaiian Hilton Village now stands. He swam, surfed, fished, did odd jobs such as selling newspapers and went to Waikiki grammar school; he would never graduate from high school. He earned his living as a beachboy and stevedore at the Honolulu Harbor docks. Duke’s love of surfing is what he is most remembered. He used surfing to promote Hawaiian culture to visitors who wanted to fully experience the islands; he was regarded as the father of international surfing.

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Shaloha

Shaloha Shaloha is a conjunction of Shalom and Aloha - (the former is Hebrew, the latter Hawaiian) they each can mean peace, completeness, prosperity and welfare and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye. The conjunctive word is used by many of the Jewish faith in Hawaiʻi. It is believed that Jewish traders from England and Germany first came to Hawaiʻi in the 1840s. Jews from throughout the world were attracted to California and in most cases they tried it there before they came to the Islands. The first Jewish mercantile establishment was a San Francisco firm which opened a branch in Honolulu. Lasting legacies of early Jewish presence in the Islands are gifts from Elias Abraham Rosenberg to King Kalākaua: a Sefer Torah (Pentateuch) and Pointer.

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