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Well, what they do in the company of each other doesn't exactly mean I see them playing a Ukulele - perhaps the group I'm in hasn't gotten with the Ukulele program yet
I guess folks don't get invited into HA's "ukulele program" until they've been with the company for at least a decade. One of HA's VPs (who has been with the company for nearly 30 years) is of Portuguese ancestry and he often has kanikapila at his place in Kapolei.
I guess folks don't get invited into HA's "ukulele program" until they've been with the company for at least a decade. One of HA's VPs (who has been with the company for nearly 30 years) is of Portuguese ancestry and he often has kanikapila at his place in Kapolei.
"L" is a nice guy (the only one with 30 years I can think of at the top of my head that level) - however, I'm sure as heck not driving all the way to Kapolei invited or not!
"L" is a nice guy (the only one with 30 years I can think of at the top of my head that level) - however, I'm sure as heck not driving all the way to Kapolei invited or not!
Kapolei's not that far from Kailua. For some of the shindigs at "L's" place, folks have been known to fly in from the Neighbor Islands.
Thank you to the Pochos for vinha d'alhos! And taking the heat for a huge portion of the ethnic jokes!
I'm also pretty fond of the slack key guitar!
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Mercy sakes. Ukes are all over at the beach and with anybody waiting in a car for somebody in a parking lot. The owner of the local feed store and the local tire shop in my town are both Portagee, along with many farmers. If you look in the B.I. phone book there are about 3 1/2 pages of Carvalho's, more than any other name.
Mercy sakes. Ukes are all over at the beach and with anybody waiting in a car for somebody in a parking lot. The owner of the local feed store and the local tire shop in my town are both Portagee, along with many farmers. If you look in the B.I. phone book there are about 3 1/2 pages of Carvalho's, more than any other name.
As I mentioned, it might be different on outer islands other than Oahu. I go to the beach every weekend unless it's raining and have never seen someone on the beach with one.
Being Portuguese, our first time in Oahu we were pleasantly surprised to see malasadas, linguica on many restaurant menus, and the huge variety of linguica brands in the stores. Even more surprising was to find bacalhao. We don't have that anywhere around here, I have to order it from Toronto.
You can find the bacalhao at asian markets. I find it here in California.
As I mentioned, it might be different on outer islands other than Oahu. I go to the beach every weekend unless it's raining and have never seen someone on the beach with one.
Sounds like Oahu needs a FEEL THE ALOHA campaign for jaded transplants and frazzled locals who aren't feeling it anymore in the hustle and bustle of the city. They could have ukulele performers at beaches on weekends and downtown lunch spots all week. They could hire people to drive the roads and let people merge in front of them. They could raise opihi and fish to restock the shorelines. They could release a few more roosters and chickens all over the city. They could raise another half-cent GET and it'd still be cheaper than subsidizing a ferry.
They could hire some long-time gone Hawaiian locals from the mainland who still have a heart and give them jobs on Oahu spreading Aloha.
They could have ukulele performers at beaches on weekends and downtown lunch spots all week. They could release a few more roosters and chickens all over the city.
People who live on Oahu like the way it is - for those who don't - they are free to move.
However, as someone who spends a lot of time on the beaches on Maui and Kauai (not so much the BI since - well - there aren't that many beaches) I don't exactly see people running amok with ukuleles there either - and for you folks on Kauai - you can keep your roosters to yourselves please (and the fighting caged roosters on Lanai I've unfortunately seen).
There used to be folks that would get together and play ukulele at a corner of Ala Moana shopping center, but that was decades ago and several shopping center expansions have happened since then and probably renovated their area beyond use. Upper level by one of the side entrances, on the back side and was it by Sears or Liberty House? Well, they may not be there anymore.
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