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Aloha BIGLOOK! Been missing you on the various threads! I wanted to ask your reaction to the story “The Honolulu Advertiser” did on the various houses, since I got raked over the coals and called a “Truther” over it. There is a lot of speculation, could haves and might haves in the house article and naturally “The Honolulu Advertiser” neglects to mention that Ann and Jr were absent from HI until 1963! One of my major problems with them saying the house out on the highway was the first home the Dunhams lived in when they moved to HI was when Jr “wrote” his book he mentions taking a walking tour when his father visited in 1971 and the first home the Dunhams lived in was shown to him. Seeing as the house on the highway is approximately 7 miles from the Beretania St apartment and his father had a cane since he was recuperating from a car accident where he had injured his leg, it would have been impossible for them to walk 14 miles return to see the house on the highway! Anyway just thought I would ask for your comments/opinions regarding the article the link which I am including below!

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081109/NEWS01/811090361/-1/SPECIALOBAMA08

You can look at Grandma Dunham’s death this way, Maya and Konrad had a week to go through the apartment and throw away any paperwork etc. before they went back to work (sarcasm intended)
Good to have you back BTW!

We chatted about this before. The house out on Kalanianaole was way out the affordable range for a couple college students and the Dunhams lived in Makiki or somewhere near the UH.

I just looked over the photo of the Kalanianaole homestead.....and it looks like the backside of a larger home, away from the fronting on the highway with a plumbing wall and utilities service.

The photo of Kapiolani could never have been taken in '61 since it didn't exist till 10 years later. There was a clinic then but no hospital.

And WTH is a 'Truther' anyway? Not familiar with the term.

When you go out to Aina Haina and Hawaii Kai, there's two sides of the highway. On the Makai side, real estate is prime, next to or near the ocean......like walking distance. On the Mauka side, lots of developments sprouted up running up from the highway into the valleys and low hillsides. These were mostly private homes of working people and not a lot of rentals. It took bucks to live on the Makai side.