My Love Affair With the Hawaiian Islands and points East...1942 to the presant...
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Page Started: mid 2019 Page Updated: 2-9-2024 |
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Background music to this page can be controlled here. "Waikiki" sung by Na Leo Pilimehana |
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My mother, Nada Carmen Scott Moore, and her brother, Emil Silvan Scott, were the closest of 11 siblings growing up in Jourdanton, Texas. Emil became a pilot and flew in the Territory of Hawaii on the Island of Oahu from December 1936 to December 1937. He flew to the Big Island and Kauai. That landing field on Kauai is now an ocean side golf course. After a long distance relationship, Emil married Elizabeth Steele in 1939. Along the way she adopted the name "Georgi" as her own. Emil was killed March 14, 1942 in Kunming, China in a plane crash. I was born November 27, 1942. My Uncle Emil's life pulled me to Asia and the Islands for as long as I can remember. Which made it so much easier for me to understand the movie, Six Degrees of Separation , and how we all are truly connected in ways we may never have thought about until now... After Emil's death my mother inherrited, what was called all of my life, the "cedar chest" which was in storage in Hawaii. My parents had it shipped to their home at 236 Tivoli Way in Sacramento, California. I grew up with this cedar chest. Currently, that cedar chest is in Memphis, Tennessee with a distance relative . I have been working to bring the chest to my home here in California for the past several years, but For years - Actually, all of my life - I've been attached to and felt comfort from ... the mysterious cedar chest. Unfortunately, when I was over 5 but probably not over 10, I remember playing Emil's collection of 78 RPM Hawaiian records and later breaking them with a baseball as target practice, while they hung on the Bing cherry tree in our backyard. My mother was not happy. Wish I had those records today For an example of connections nearly 80 years wide, go to the bottom of this link and read about my uncle's going away party aboard the President Line Ship - Coolidge in Honolulu Harbor in 1937: "the party" In 1960, while in my senior year at Sacramento Senior High School I was at the California State Fair and stumbled on a booth selling 2-acre plots of land on the Big Island of Hawaii at Orchid Land Estates aka Hawaiian Paradise Park for $1,395.00. I signed the papers without an adult. I vaguely remember making payments of $35.00 a month until I was drafted into the US Army in 1964. My dad paid off the rest of the loan. In 1973 I sold it for $6,000.00 buying my first home at 3313 Albany Way in North Sacramento, California. I saw Diamond Head for the first time from a troop ship, the Hugh J. Gaffey, on my way to South Korea in the Spring of 1965. I was in the US Army. In 1977 myself, Richard Wilson, Stan Boettcher and Ed Foster flew on Western Airlines from Sacramento to Honolulu then to Lihue, Kauai for 2 weeks in a house in Hanalei. Sometime in 1983 and after buying our place on the beach in Kapaa, Kauai -- Lappert Ice Cream and Famous Amos Cookies started Famous Amos Wally Amos Wally still baking... Thanks to an inherritance from Clark's mom, Dorothy, in 1984/5, we made a down payment on our first and brand new house at 3643 Cattle Drive in Sacramento. Then in 1986 my dad, Tom, gave me and Clark $10,000.00. Using some of this money, in 1987, Clark and I purchased: WAIKIKI GRAND #520 STUDIO (1987-1989) HONOLULU, HAWAII BOUGHT FROM - ??? PAID $35K IN 1987, INTEREST RATE ??% SOLD FOR $65K IN 1989 SOLD TO ???? Then in 1989, Clark and I bought: KAPAA SHORE CONDOMINUIMS(1989-1997) #218 1 BEDROOM 0-900 KUHIO HIGHWAY KAPAA, HI TMK: 4/4-3-9-4 BOUGHT FROM ??? PAID $85K IN 1989, INTEREST RATE 10.0% SOLD FOR $127K IN 1997 to Time Share People And, you can see these two hideaways in the following trips... Over the years you can see our many trips to the Islands. One of these trips was our honeymoon and Clark s birthday. My now Hoozband, has been along this path with me for over 40 years And, I'll never forget, two trips to China. Thank you Uncle Moon. China 2010 and China 2012 |