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Hawaii Front Street Lahaina Maui. Last Video Driving Down June 7, 2023 Before Devastating Fires.
YouTube Channel: Classic Improvement Products ^ | August 9, 2023 | Lorge Family, Classic Improvement Products

Posted on 08/11/2023 1:41:23 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey

Lahaina Front Street, the second most visited spot in Maui, has always held a special place in the hearts of our family. From our childhood visits in 1990 to our recent trip in June, Front Street has been a constant source of joy and memories.

During our last visit, we felt compelled to record a video capturing the essence of this vibrant street. Little did we know that this would become a poignant reminder of what once was.

Today, on August 9, 2023, devastating news of the billions of dollars in damage to Lahaina and its surrounding communities, particularly Front Street, has left us heartbroken.

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone on the island as they face this unimaginable loss. Through sharing this video, we hope to bring a glimmer of happiness and pay tribute to the beauty and spirit of Lahaina Front Street.

God bless everyone in Maui. Mahalo for the memories.

Lorge Family Classic Improvement Products https://www.chiproducts.com/ August 9, 2023

Is this the last most current video driving down front street?


TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: front; hawaii; hh2; lahaina; maui; nocomment; thebakedtater; wildfire
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To: 11th_VA

YW


21 posted on 08/11/2023 2:23:00 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

we were there for a lovely lunch on a day trip.
I cannot believe what happened.


22 posted on 08/11/2023 2:28:10 PM PDT by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: one guy in new jersey

The irony is the other side of the island gets around 300 inches a year


23 posted on 08/11/2023 2:29:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: libh8er

Lahaina is on the leeward side of Maui, so the climate is much dryer than the windward side, only a few miles away. This is typical of Hawaii. On Oahu, the land around Makaha Beach resembles a desert, but Kaneohe, 40 miles to the east, gets constant rain.


24 posted on 08/11/2023 2:31:04 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ronniesgal

Yes, it’s almost unbelievable.


25 posted on 08/11/2023 2:38:19 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

My favorite memory of lahinia was walking out of the Maui outlets on front street and out front was a young kama’aina guy was sitting playing his acoustic guitar .

(In Seattle it was common for street musicians to be playing with an open guitar case for donations.)

So I thought he was a kama’aina street musician, so I pull a $5 bill out to donate and since there was no case I waited till he was done with the melody he was playing and walked up and stuck it in the sound hole.

He started laughing and asked me

” why you do that brah ? “

Then I realized he was just some guy playing his guitar on front street

So embarrassing/-)

I said I thought he was a street musician like in Seattle..

He laughed again and said he was just waiting on a freind to meet up with ,,

I said I liked the song and hoped I didn’t offend him , that his performance was worth $5 to me and that I wanted him to have it cuz I enjoyed listening to him.

Later that day I saw him at a waterfall out Hanna way that people go swimming at. He points me out to his friends and says “ there’s that guy I told you about” and they and I started laughing . he came and talked with me for a few minutes and I felt really at home talking to him and a lot less like a tourist, almost felt like a kama’aina myself.

God bless the people of Maui.


26 posted on 08/11/2023 2:40:38 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: libh8er

“The air is so DEW-y sweet, you don’t even have to lick the stamps.”- Newman, Seinfeld.


27 posted on 08/11/2023 2:40:53 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: one guy in new jersey

That’s an American city? Where are all the homeless???


28 posted on 08/11/2023 2:42:35 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: cuz1961

“God bless the people of Maui.”

+1


29 posted on 08/11/2023 2:42:38 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: null and void

Good question.

Looks as if our fellow countrymen on Maui know how to take care of each other. Aloha spirit.


30 posted on 08/11/2023 2:45:06 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Fiji Hill
This is typical of Hawaii. On Oahu, the land around Makaha Beach resembles a desert, but Kaneohe, 40 miles to the east, gets constant rain.

Yes. The only time I lived outside the United States was at Kaneohe.

31 posted on 08/11/2023 2:46:38 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: libh8er

China taking revenge for the downed balloon ? Who knows. We see a flurry of stories on “ufo”s being sighted everywhere and no one can , or will, explain what they are. A couple of weeks later an idyllic seaside town is burned to cinder.


32 posted on 08/11/2023 2:53:30 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: one guy in new jersey

Oh,, shameless plug for a dive shop i hope survived .

on the south side of lahinia there is a dive shop on the waterline,,

the shop has a patented snorkel design they sell that makes breathing much more efficient and easier to breath through

( I won’t give the design away, I’ll just say that you aren’t inhaling half the exhale you just exhaled that is still in the uptube,, it really works.)


33 posted on 08/11/2023 3:24:10 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: stars & stripes forever

My favorite bottle of perfume came from a little shop in Lahaina.


34 posted on 08/11/2023 3:36:13 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: one guy in new jersey

Thank you for that beautiful video. I want to remember Lahaina that way.


35 posted on 08/11/2023 4:03:44 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: null and void

The homeless are on Oahu. They haven’t found Maui yet.


36 posted on 08/11/2023 4:15:19 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: null and void

-—outside the United States? You were there before 1898?


37 posted on 08/11/2023 4:17:53 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: OldWarBaby

It wasn’t a State until 1959.


38 posted on 08/11/2023 4:25:03 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: one guy in new jersey

I can’t watch. It’s just too sad.


39 posted on 08/11/2023 4:29:21 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: doorgunner69

They finally got the ferry?


40 posted on 08/11/2023 4:30:46 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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