Over The Sea To Honolulu 1950c

[ignatz18cu]

Is that beach boy Harry Robello at the back of the outrigger at 6;16

[FOBmzunguREPTILICUS]

1950s...when the Rockefellers took over America's education system

[AlohaFromANaniWahine]

Another great video from you! I just love the narrator! This is such great film. What a wonderful place. Again mahalo for uploading!!!

[MaunaLoa09]

wow the Aloha towers sure has changed. when you get off the ship. you are greeted by the view of hooters resaurant

[hedablinka]

Trolley buses in Honolulu!

[hebneh]

Circa 1950 is the correct date for this film. The Royal Hawaiian was remodeled and reopened after World War II in Feb. 1947. The SS Lurline was renovated and returned to its run in Feb. 1948. The Moana Hotel was renovated and had its original dining room demolished about that time as well - and all of this appears in the film.

"Fitzpatrick Travel Talks", produced by MGM, were famous (or notorious) before WWII, primarily for Mr. Fitzpatrick's narration, which we hear here as well.

[Coins4Cheese]

Toards the end, when he said that people throw their leis in the water, I can relate. When I was living in Hawaii, I would find a lot of non-seaside flowers in the ocean.

[shtonker8]

As usual the damn haole's polute without care...golf balls overboard, trash, deisel; coming to Hawai'i with no clue to it's gifts and the genius of it's Ali'i Mo'i! Aue! Aue! And worse, when these things are pointed out to them they have no shame. One quarter of O'ahu is military bases! Depleted uranium is here, the Military denied it but it was discovered to be here. Thousands of gallons of sewage was dumped into the ocean only a short way from Waikiki by the Military. Enough!!

[Shewolfen]

@shtonker8 Im a haole and i couldnt agree more, what has been done to the islands is terrible! But the abuse of native peoples and the 'aina , it is has been happening throught the whole world too for long time, :*(

[cob4128]

This would have been better without the funeral music

[hedablinka]

"under the so-called Golden Gate?" The Golden Gate (Chrysopylae) is the name of the straits, named for the Golden Horn (Chrysoceros) of Byzantium by John Fremont in 1846. The Bridge is the Bridge ACROSS the Golden Gate.

[hedablinka]

People forget how old this video is, and this particular tourguide, who has several videos on YouTube, is a great example of his genre. He goes all over the world, but he seems incapable of seeing a world any different than the white middle-class American world he knows. We can mock him, but if you hear Americans on the BBC today, you hear a self righteousness that is no different, and no more informed. Still, what I wish is that these films were in color, what an exotic world he saw.

[SURFSTYLEY3]

This film was in color, it's just a b&w version posted here on youtube....

[lasuvidaboy]

The film was probably done in the early 1950s as it shows Matson Line's ss Lurline after WWII. As for the golfballs, remember those were different times and very few tourists traveled to Hawaii in that pre-jet era. Travel was all first class in those days and only a few liners traveled between the US west coast and Hawaii.

[hinanochick]

peope were idiots then! more like ignorants

[TigreDelAmor]

It's people like these what choke our seas with golf balls. I cannot condone this irresponsible behavior nor that horrible organ music. The guy who hit the golf ball into the sea is probably the organ player. I can tell by his bald head. It actually LOOKS like a friggin' golf ball.

[70moss]

Two thumbs up!!! Enjoyed that very much. Mahalo!

[robertmartinez]

I'm wondering exactly what the date is on this film. The opening shot in San Francisco showed the Richmond District fully developed. I thought that area was post WW II ?

[kaptain55555]

ruth elder

[olbigdik]

fantastic video!!