Monthly Archives: September 2022
Tajiri & Ah Ping Store
Harvey Tajiri (Ao, do you remember him at our table at the Pho restaurant?) bought the bldg. & property where you & your brother in law folks are knowledgeable about — from the Tong Trust (Ah Ping) & later sold … Continue reading
Chiburu (smart leaders)
Gloria Kobayashi’s dad Richard Miyashiro was a Mamo St. native son. Dwayne Miyashiro’s dad Curly saved 100 or so Shinmachi residents by having them run up to the 2nd floor of Doc Hill’s new (1945) Coca Cola Bottling Plant across … Continue reading
Cafe 100
Gloria Miyashiro Kobayashi was born in 1946, not 1945. In January 1946 Richard Miyashiro opened his new Cafe 100 in the existing storefront bldg. row at the SW quadrant of Kamehameha Ave. & Manono St. diagonally across Kamehameha Ave. from … Continue reading
Feudal Hawai’i never had a middle class — so Asian immigrants quickly climbed up the social ladder — enterprising small time shop & store keeper capitalists’ progeny excelled (verb) e.g. Hideo Murakami of Manono St.’s Murakami Store where the HGEA bldg. is today
Of course, the article below via bromide thinking says stuckness stayed stuck. The Key To Upward Mobility? Well-Off Friends The American Dream is slipping away for many people, but there’s opportunity in socioeconomic mixing. [e.g. Bobby Kiyosaki, whose wealthier classmates/neighbors … Continue reading
Rising Treasury yields
Stocks are back to falling on Wall Street today as worries about a possible recession and rising bond yields put the squeeze back on markets. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100814/why-10-year-us-treasury-rates-matter.asp Why Is the 10-Year Treasury Yield So Important? The importance of the 10-year Treasury bond yield goes beyond … Continue reading
Hideo Murakami our fine Hilo native, Murakami Store where today’s HGEA office is on Manono St. — capitalist shop & storekeepers’ progeny excel (verb)(like Murakami)
Educator Chiburu John Uchima, shinnenkai spirit — former Dan Akaka chief of staff, also a blithe pilgrim soul & kindred uhane.
Pastor Kaki’s despotic conformity vs. Tajiri’s open-hearted innovation
Conformity is Pastor Kaki’s mantra. Innovation is Harvey Tajiri’s mantra. Innovation also is Shirl’s mantra, despite her leader “Kaka”lina’s tyranny.
Venture capitalist Charles E. Richardson
Charles E. Richardson also owned Kahuku Ranch — he had divested his half of his founded Kapapala Ranch to his founding partner Wm. H. Reed (1814-1880). Charles’ daughter Martha gave her mansion & land at 333 Iliahi St. (today’s Dolphin … Continue reading
Martha Richardson Wakefield & sis Elvira Richardson Smith
Charles Richardson’s daughter Martha married venture capitalist & atty by vocation F.M. Wakefield in 1895 when she was 18 yrs. old. Charles’ only other child — his daughter Elvira, was a single “spinster” when Charles died until she later married … Continue reading
Lalakea lands; Richardson Estate
Charles E. Richardson’s Estate lands makai of Kamehameha Ave. as well as Solomon Lalakea’s lands are mentioned in this morning’s Trib. Richardson acquired his holdings a decade & more after the Great Mahele’s conversion to Western land title acquisition. Up … Continue reading
Curtis Narimatsu 