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Topic: Pre-war Japanese steelers |
Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 4:55 am |
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Ron, Aloha Nui Loa, I don't have a clue, but I am totally intrigued by the story in these photographs.
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Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 5:31 am
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I read somewhere, about how the Japanese had to hide their guitars etc, since the idea of western (to them) items were taboo. Maybe Tojo didn't like hula girls ! Seems like steel guitars came out of the wood work after hostilities ceased & the war ended.
From what I see on the net etc, Hawaiian music is more popular in Japan than anywhere else abroad. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 8:56 am
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| That's an interesting tidbit, Bill, about taboo attitudes of the day in Japan. I guess people power wasn't to be denied, and now hula has overtaken steel in popularity. It's easier and women can get into it without the evil eye being cast, so the masses are now heavily into Hawaiian music and they havn't forgotten the steel. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 11:22 am
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 11:53 am
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Hi Michael -
My Japanese is pretty rusty but I think the first line under Buckie's picture says he was born in Honolulu on April 16, 1912.
And the first line of the second paragaraph says he and 2 other Nisei went to Japan in 1933. Regards, FF.
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 12:43 pm
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So, ol' Buckie was a local boy, eh? Pretty cool.
Good going there, Frank! |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 1:52 pm
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 2:05 pm
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| My wife and I love to go through antique stores. It always grieves me to see boxes of old family photos in these shops. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2011 2:16 pm
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| Lee Baucum wrote: |
| My wife and I love to go through antique stores. It always grieves me to see boxes of old family photos in these shops. |
I feel your pain, Lee, it seems like those lives are being lost and forgotten, forever. But they have a charm, just like the shots in the ebay auction, they are full of life, but then what? I love going thru old pix or reading the backs of old postcards, it gives you a portal into another time and personalities. I once found two cool shots of Roy and Dale Rogers at a friend's fishing cabin that I treasure because it was candid, shot by a friend. |
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