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Well, if you saw it happen in 1968, it most certainly could have been happening in 1960.

I have to wonder if, for some reason, papa Stanley needed to get out of Washington.

Did they buy or rent the residence in Honolulu?

Did they buy or rent the residence in Honolulu?Rented. They never owned a home, despite the fact the Madelyne worked in both banking and real estate escrow. Comment is made in one of the write ups that she spent all of her money on BO's education -- and probably a good bit on Stanlley Ann's too. Madelyne was the steady one in the family because Stanley was a bit of a gadfly -- big ideas and no follow through. Madelyne kept things togethr. The comment was made that she missed the opoortunity to buy property in a nice area of Honolulu before the prices escalated when the Japanese moved in and bought everything in sight.

Of course, that may be overblown too. They moved to Honolulu in 1960 and it was already very expensive there. By 1970 the Japanese had taken over, and there was a lot of resentment from the native Hawaiians. They'd bought up all the gbig hotels and had replaced the native Hawaiian staff with Japanese staff. I took my family there at about that time and was "told off" in a rather quiet manner by a tour guide we hired to drive us out to the Polynesian Cultural Center because we were staying at the Queen Kapiolani Hotel. The guide informed us in no uncertain terms that we were staying in a JAPANESE hotel which was sucking the life blood out ot the Hawaiians.