 Think tech away civil engagement lives here. I'm glad you join us again as the Soto Brown and Martin this bang on our Relentless research Believing in the evolution of human humane architecture here on the Hawaiian Islands. That's true. That's right That's right. And today we're gonna stay on our island, which are mostly do which is a while Who yes, and if we could get the first picture to give the folks who are not from here an idea about how Wow who looks like Well, the Hawaiian Island chain. Yeah, let's go to our map. There's our map and it's a little blurry I but I find it so cute I find it so nice how the illustrator portrayed us basically been stuck between these two mountain ranges and what you see There is a third mountain range. That's basically Architectural mountains and we just got down in our ranking. We have now you were disappointed when I told you before the show We're now on position six of having the most high rises Before in the USA and one of the two cities that suppress us is Houston But Houston doesn't have to do that because it can sprawl But we cannot go anywhere except we can actually go west So that actually happened unfortunately since the 60s 70s where it became too expensive here in town they developed west and If you go the most west because you can't actually only you have a SUV You can sort of in very slow kind of get around yes and end up at actually northwest shore around correct And so if we go all the way around the Waianae coast if we go to the next photograph We come to Makaha Valley and Makaha Valley interestingly enough was used as the site of Filming for this major motion picture which was released in 1966 called Hawaii based on a famous novel and they used the Makaha Valley as One of the main settings for the film and in the next picture We can see that even though they built a lot of different structures to represent different time periods in the Hawaiian Islands starting in 1820 much of Makaha Valley, which is what you see here was still undeveloped at that time in the middle 1960s and if you look in the bottom right you see that there's supposed to be a Hayao that's entirely artificial because they built this as a set, but nonetheless Most of there weren't any modern buildings in there, but that was about to change very dramatically very soon after this film was shot and European fellow is the bad guy Max von Südl. Yes. He is as they always are exactly and and Germans loving You know the exotic yes, they do the one sitting here included. That's not that's we go to the next picture This is also a thanks again to my friend Stefan who got me here the German version of basically season two Hawaii And we want to look at the last CD on the disc which the German translation was the Queen of Polynesia. Oh, okay, maybe that's yeah And that's probably even that's probably the original English title. Yeah. Yeah, and the whole the whole Basically episode is filmed at the project. We're going to talk about today Right, and the next picture is one of the screenshots I took where they basically have this master plan and you started to wonder Because you're actually also an eyewitness from the early stage. Yes share that. Yes, and in the summer of 1969 the Makaha in which is what we're talking about opened in March of 1969 and I got to visit it in the summer of 1969 and then in the fall of that same years when Hawaii 5-0 filmed there I am not sure that the plan that we see here displayed on the chair actually is what was in existence at that time I think this was a master plan that possibly never all Possibly not all of that stuff actually got built But let's look at the stuff that was built and that you have vividly in your memories. Yes next picture Right and when I went out there to visit we had lunch with my my mother my sister I think my grandfather went something like that We had lunch next to this pool and the main thing that I remember about the pool is the Fountains that you can see in each of the four corners, which as you were pointing out are frankly artificial and man-made Use of water for a water feature Which the pool was really the centerpiece of the buildings that were in Existence at that time and we got a detailed shot another scene where they were actually doing a close-up next picture Please we're doing right close up of the pool and also reminded us of one of our first shows Which was about the Alamoana mall? Where there was a similar water fountain feature that was very sort of rectilinearly architectural very modern Right international style, right, however, you know, there was some references some very modern Artwork in there that wasn't nostalgic the rats be interpretive of of the culture, right? So again as we said this they were playing off the star contrast of the very organic as you call it as you said very apparent Mountain ranges on both sides and then contrasting that with the artificial man-made right right and those and those Valley walls are very much a part of this whole experience when you go to Macau Valley. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely So next picture I did three screenshots of and you gave me a compliment that I was capturing the main characters Right, and this one character and his name is sort of interesting in a double way. Absolutely. This man's character is Chin Ho Kelly Chin Ho the Chin Ho part was based on a real man whose name was Chin Ho Who was a developer Chin Ho was the developer of the Ilikai Ilikai hotel and the Macau Valley in So it's appropriate that Chin Ho Kelly the artificial character is in the building created by the real Chin Ho Yeah, and I want to point out that you see this sort of the modern ping-pong, you know table there Of course, this is an object from the From you know modern America at that time But the architecture as you start to see is is rather sort of subtle is very sort of it's wood It's what's construction lemonade would lemonade its construction and it's a big overhead So it's a it's a shading device. It sure is climatically because this is a pretty hot Valley, right? It is a very hot Valley. It is very hot and dry Valley. And yes, you do want shade there So next one is our main character here next picture. No, well the second main character that's Dano Okay, and as you pointed out and this is very true that the set the setting for this scene is that a Gigantic gem is being unveiled and shown to a bunch of people in a party and of course it gets stolen The five-oh guys are there to guard the gemstone. So they're dressed in party clothes But they're always dressed up anyway. You never see them in any kind of casual clothes. They're always dressed up So that's Dano who's a McGarrett's right-hand man and the next picture There is McGarrett here talking to some folks and we see something introduced in the back a theme that we Dedicated a show to we called it fins and slats slanted Hawaii, but we got to move on We got so much stuff to cover now. We want to open your archive So the next yeah pictures is is your stuff from the archive, right? And so this is from my collection and as you can see This is from the very beginning when when the entire resort first opened and I want to point out that Chen Oh His development company capital investment was talking about developing the Valley as early as the late 1950s To be quote the second Waikiki So this was supposed to be the very beginning of a great deal of intensive development Yeah, and although that says opening December 1968 that was the That was the The golf course that they're talking about the hotel opened in 1969. It wasn't almost. I mean this the whole like the logo the Sort of branding almost has this I sub talk this innocent I find this approach like almost like I mean I avoid to say silly it certainly wasn't but it was innocent It was like, okay, we do this. There's nothing wrong about it. We don't have a bad conscience, right? So it was really innocent times like shooting people to the moon at the same exactly we haven't quite figured it out But let's just do it. Let's try exactly exactly. That's right next picture is a more sort of Historic, I guess the correct one from your archives as well But you pointed also out that Actually being so Luxuriously generous with water is sort of against nature as we pointed out. It's very dry there So this is a very dry. This is a big effort and actually pretty wasteful as golf course are in general Absolutely, right. It's like doing it in Las Vegas Exactly and so the next picture shows sort of more the inhabitation which you already see in this previous one here Is it because part of that were these cottages and they caught the cottages were very lushly integrated and Right and palms were not native there, too So they need to be brought there exactly and there was a whole bunch of large trees Which were planted and irrigated to keep this area shaded and to blend all those But a very sort of exotic and you see how funny the guy and not only the actors in Hawaii 50 But also the the diner are in suit and tie there right in this very lush tropical Look at the blanket the cool kind of pattern of the blankets right Matching sort of the the scenery right and the next picture is showing similarly sort of the lifestyle the portrait lifestyle You told me this was right after the old. This is right. This is 1969 1970 the dining room with a big dramatic sculpture the guest rooms The various amenities they wanted to claim that you could fly there from a little new rather than drive So and we get to the helicopter we will get it. We will see a helicopter I'm always celebrating the right so then I was we were going online We're doing research all over the place so the next picture is something I would just googled and there's very little left But these are three pictures which are more or less basically portraying the same which we've seen before just a little bit more modern And then the best picture is the next picture that I found because I've never seen this Anywhere else also very good resolution and I subtitled this basically hardscape because you know in this lush Natural Valley they were pouring concrete like crazy like like football fields. Yeah, and then also these sort of planter boxes Architecturally very nice sort of horizontal groove. So, you know underlining the the landscaping kind of notion and Just this tropic this artificial tropical paradise that they created so Yeah, innocently or Virginally, however you want to call that. Yeah, so this guy is so excited. We did a little bit of research online We couldn't make up our mind what was happening and what was still there. So we drove there next picture both great synchronization Synced as we are at the same time, but without letting each other know So we must have just missed each other just missed each other and we explored the whole valley separately We both went there first and also it has information at the bottom when you Google for the architect for the creator There's two different architects. There is the the golf course architect And there was mr. Bell and mr. Bell is credited for having been an expert and the golf and this is the only Function that still kept and maintained is the golf course and this is the clubhouse right and you went and looked if you Can get the next picture Try to see is this actually an original building right and I think this comparison I think that I think that the similarity between the clubhouse Which is up on the top and one of the main buildings the dining room of the original Val a Makaha Valley Inn at the bottom of the picture to me suggests that yeah That probably is an original structure from when the golf courses open then there were two original golf courses Which opened actually just before the hotel did and we were both a little disappointed to be honest and Drove away and then next picture there was a sign of hope literally Figuratively speaking right next to the parking lot next to the parking lot and there is a sort of battered Post right out of lava rock and then this iconic Beam out of laminated timber. So this is like we call this a mock-up You know or this is like the essence the soul of the building right which always asked my emerging generation to do Is I kept right a model the essence and this is the essence of the architecture right so to the earthy walls and then This is a lofty area So what would roof construction and horizontal and vertical too and then yeah, and I then asked you know the lady at the Sales shop there where the where the resort and she said it's pretty much gone But you find left over is if you drive down and take a left and maybe she said right I don't know but I took a turn right To the left and the next picture and there was good because all of a sudden I ended up at these walls Once again battered walls in a very sort of modern composition So I thought this might have been the original gate to the whole area Which are right firm and you are correct even though they're all overgrown now And there are no signs left on them when this whole whole valley was being intended for development This was to welcome you to this entire new modern development started with the golf course and the hotel Okay, but then even more sort of characteristic and and Surprising is on is the next one on the other side directly opposite of these walls is this pool That has the same sort of finish as all the right low walls the planters on the area Which we just saw But then sort of hidden now in these bushes is there comes this Concrete mouth comes out of this concrete pool And is basically Accentuated with these lava rock walls. Yes, so you see this sort of Intentional contrasting what we talked. Okay, there's nature and there is indigenous and there is sort of earthy and there is us Progressive right concrete is all material of the time So one wasn't trying to make things look like they've always been there Which I tried these days which we get to at the end of the show, right? All right, it was a very proud of sort of mid-century pioneering. Yes effort. Yes sure Yes Modernism exactly, but then we kept on I turned around because I since like okay This couldn't have been it where is where all these buildings? There's no hotel That's the plan exactly so we drove the opposite direction again And that's the next picture and ended up at another gate or a sign right and much disfigured by spray paint Exactly exactly and then you have a funny story to tell about the bird That's well okay on the sign which is partly obscured you can see there's the logo of a peacock and that logo is in the upper right left corner The resort presumably released peacocks in the early 1970s They became a pest in the valley because of the amount of noise and how aggressive they were and that is a typical Example of a bad introduction that's something we talk about all the time and One woman who lived in one of the condos actually beat one of the birds to death in the parking lot in anger For which she got arrested There don't appear to be any peacocks left anymore So I assume somebody somebody went through quietly and killed them all because you don't see them there anymore But they use it as a logo for the hotel. Mm-hmm So it's another example of this sort of artificial construct that they created I'm really thinking which kind of plants not really thinking right kind of birds Right just thinking of what would what would be imagine right be exotic You know it isn't really to the specific location, but the next and the next picture This is where it gets extremely exciting because here we found we were archaeologists pretty much and found old foundations Yeah, and and situations so One thing is pretty much so we got that water feature at the lower gate And we got that prime water feature at the central Plaza, which I assume you came and drove around as you can see and people Were dropped off. Yes, right? That's exactly and you can still see the old pavement there Which is pretty much the same as on the sidewalks of Waikiki on color. Yes, yes, and kind of flagstone exactly So the next picture Is because that's pretty much it we were looking for more and everything else as you pointed out before this massive thing They tore down and they must have bulldozed with it all the debris go and there are these kind of funny ditches Yeah, yeah, so why did they dig in so deep and the picture at the top showed all these? Sort of artificial plans to that specific place palm trees are all dead, right? Because they're not watered or exactly right So there are all these large trees which once were there irrigated as part of the grounds Exactly and they're either sickly or many of them are dying because they're no longer being watered exactly next picture Show some other leftovers, so I found this other picture at the bottom left also online where they must have been these sort of bowls fear like Light fixtures and you can see one, you know sort of still there So and then also you see some kind of rubble which you can see architectural You know refinement on it. So so once again there are these yeah like like in archaeology Where you know you dig for the old Egyptians or for the aspects you find things But this is fairly recent history so there's extremely recent history really the question is what what went wrong? And you have some clues about that right too While you talk about it, maybe we get the next picture Because you always have provided picture that turns out to be my favorite picture in the past shows And this is my favorite picture from your archives that for me perfectly portrays That sort of composition of the mountains in the back and last time we were talking about sort of the most beloved Roof these days that developers think you know everyone thinks it's local is the Dickey roof Which is a plantation roof and this one here is more like a pagoda style roof, right? He also said wasn't unique for the island But it was it was something popular in modernism this really large dramatic swooping curve You see it executed in wood you see it executed in concrete and you see it here And you were you were saying is that an architectural inspiration from the walls of the valley? Yeah, perhaps it is and and let's see how the architect described that because next picture we found on a website of architects Explaining and I put this here in bold here placed in a garden setting In a system of walkways in recreational areas the whole the hotel is Intimately related to the contours of the site and so on so on and they say right the colors and the materials Are either indigenous or compatible to the region and add to the general atmosphere of Melody and leisure and I think this is this is you know, I honor them for them. I credit them for that Yes, I think that was was their true intention It wasn't to like dump something there or something invasive that you decorate To pretend it is fitting in right, but it was in there a sort of very own way Maybe silly and certainly innocent way. Yeah honest, right right and what also belongs to the Development is what we've seen a couple times is also part of the middle between us in the permanent background is that Little thing in the distance there. It's not that little when you get up close to it and so This is a residential a condo development that was part and that got very sort of dramatically and and sort of patriotically almost Portrait in the wi-fi for next picture Because here is our helicopter with Steve McGarrett Steve McGarrett and it has the signage of maca'a and Because of the resolution because this is me taking pictures with my phone of my computer screen playing the Sort of you know original quality show, but there are construction cranes You can barely see there's a yellow one and there's a blue one Well, and you have the timeline going right and this this was filmed in October or November of 1969 And just a short time afterwards December of 1969 the condos topped off So they were almost completed by the time this photo was taken that you took of the tv show when it was being filmed And then did you drive up to the condos as well? I did. So, uh, so we drove up to the condos without knowing we Correct both. So next picture Was it turns out to be my favorite picture because we're going to make a show about that we call tropical ascending Which is about yeah walking up here on the island. That's right And of course this leads to staircases in best case. These are the ones that we want back We didn't had for a while because of the invasive building code the ibc But these ones are the true midwest mid-century ones easy breezy ones, right? Totally and they're sort of standing there as as these heroic towers or the ends of of the towers and basically Aligning like guards, you know the national mountains, which are so close Which you also shared with me caused a problem, right? There was in probably the 1990s a substantial landslide that occurred off the cliffs next to one of the condos buried a lot of the Parking lot next to that and back of that condominium And caused a lot of publicity at the time as to whether this was a dangerous situation for people who live there, etc So they are upright up close to nature and that is something to consider I don't know about you. They didn't let me I wanted to walk around And I ended up being at the gate and she said who are you visiting and I kind of stuttered stupidly And she said okay, then turn around and I said well should I back up? She said no, I let you in but you drive around and you'll be back Soon So all these pictures that you see next next one got in I didn't even try I got in so next image here Is that but this was me almost on the way out again? Actually, you can actually see the nature when they look very solid from the from the front They look very skinny from the side Because there are linear skinny towers. They're single loaded corridor the ones we love And there is a circulation facing the mountains and then you got the view towards the valley and the next picture is showing The the easy breezy circulation always and it's a very sort of linear very rational Mid-century modernism that that you know climatically makes a lot of sense And you can see even the bars of the guard rails is sort of texture, right? We had a show about architecture And they also let air through exactly so they're actually pretty exotic and Although probably not Conceived that way by many people right, but that's just the level of technology at that time Exactly would not have built an entirely closed dramatic structure And now comes the low point because when you exit it and drive down to the back to the beach You see that one here and this is shocking. This is what we're afraid will happen Maybe if they redevelop the valley which you're talking about this is just one of these generic Gated communities as you can tell with this sort of buildings They're hermetic but are decorated with some porches and they could be anywhere in las vegas in la or somewhere So this is this is sad to see and next picture going down one more step is our Most activist reporter heard sandburn who we briefed in our research He said all this this coast is probably going to be disney eyes, right? Because allani is not far away So I took a chance to refresh my memories from allani. So this is interesting different to the honest authentic approach of easy breezy Modern mid-century this one here is the opposite. This is a generic He called it a box double loaded corridor that they then then because the tourists, you know Have to like it as being something local that they're great. You like to call it orinating here Yeah, it's ornamented and it's got this sort of faux Polynesian exterior on it Which mimics but does not have any function Some of the original structures which were created in Polynesia And I want to point out at the bottom of the picture in the center Is your hand knocking on what looks like a wooden post, but you said that that's entirely artificial Right and you can tell by by hitting it with your thumb Or your finger your knuckles and you know that it doesn't sound like wood This is corporate america theming locality here pretty much And like the next picture is again the contrast of the pools who already talked about The mid-century pool and this pool here that pretends to be local But never mind the little chlorine right that's where it's been there right that tells it all that it's all artificial right But we always close on a good note So the next picture is the original part of Olani was called ihilani and is now the four seasons just remodeled And it was so stunned to see what we always say we should do We have a trough we have plants growing out of the trough And maybe we have a curtain to mitigate the wind we have an overhang So that is still existing there and that gets us to a we always conclude the show with a proposal And our proposal today is the next picture Is also informed by our former tropical tourism guest expert susan Who basically was telling me martin, you know actually out west She just read this article on the very top ride that they're going to make this homeless camp at nonakuli And that's pretty close that's along the winite coast as well It reminded us of the coco palm resort that we did that that development isn't going so well So our reticle proposal this time is what so well there's primitiva There's the primitiva tower and if you look it's not that easy to see but now we're zooming in to see it There it is plunked down in makaha valley and what does this do? It is of course a high rise, but it also is open And it also contains a lot of greenery and it also has a lot of other features that we've talked about before so If the valley is not going to be developed and if they are not going to renew or rebuild the resort hotel Then the martin despair concept is why don't we put primitiva there instead and that not only is um Sort of a pleasant ecologically pleasant place to live But it also is where you can put homeless people and we we go the next slide This this portrays it again. This is the next and last glowing in night It would there would be light in there. So at night it would become a flash itself and would reveal what you just perfectly described this inclusive Sort of you know inhabitation correct of all sorts of people And we would care to have what we formally call this is what susan points out There's a new tourism is coming along which goes along with People who are interested not to deplete a place But actually really experience and share things correct and so people would be visitors and short-term inhabitants And one would right and it wouldn't just be permanent residents and it wouldn't be formerly homeless people It's also a place for tourists basically tourists exactly So what you're saying is let's mix those people together in an environment where everybody can intermingle plus A number of different amenities are provided as well plus you've got the famed easy breezy Um air circulation, which i'm not mistaking is a very hawaiian attitude to be inclusive right and welcoming people of all kinds And so our our really provocative proposition is keep the valley What it was and now is again is basically nature And basically because we're not against development and growth and all these things we need that But we say you know basically align the existing condos with primitivas And there we are which due to their nature would look less architectural, but correct organic Right and and we're not we're not advocating the demolition of things because the demolition has already occurred But as as doko momo board members founding board members and and Supporters we would say these two fountains They're still there bring them back to life and keep them as monuments as reminders of the good old time period Exactly it's part of the history. So with that. Thank you guys For your attention and for your interest in two weeks We're going to see each other again We're going to go back to town because in town is where we actually should develop But we our eyes open and yeah, I'm going to go on to another street that you have some very vivid childhood memories Oh, we're going to go to alawai bouvard. We do that. Yeah, and the show is going to be called the Um The exotic beauty and the invasive piece. So let yourself be surprised and until then stay magically exotic. Bye. Bye