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Thanks. I’ve been to Waikiki when I was young.

I’ve spent a bunch of time in Kailua-Kona as an adult.

Actually, I was trying to get a place either in Pearle City or Salt Lake, but all I could find was here :P

I prefer my surroundings to be a bit quieter ;)
At least some nice bikinis walk by pretty often :D

(Would still rather be back in Japan though ☹)

My family was sent to Hawaii just before my 5th birthday. We took a train from San Diego to San Francisco. A bus delivered us to the wharf where we boarded a US Navy ship to sail to Honolulu. I turned 5 during the voyage. We were fixed up with a hotel room in Waikiki while awaiting our quarters. We moved into 1158 Cakon St. I attended Pearl Harbor Elementary school for kindergarten and first grade. We left in June 1963 and flew to San Diego on a 707. Lindbergh Field was still using the east terminal at that point in time. I've never been back to Hawaii since.

I pulled up Google maps to see if my old quarters was still there. It has been bulldozed and replaced with single family homes. Cakon has been sealed into a court instead of the path it had as Cakon St connecting to Radford Drive.

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