Kauai as it was in the 1940s and '50s : recollections and photographs of the days when Grampa Mike was a teenage, coast haole bachelor living on Kauai during the two years prior to World War II and four years following the war / Mike Ashman.
"Kauai As It Was In The 1940s and '50s is a first-hand account of life on Kauai as it was lived in the radio days of the 1940s and 1950s. Author Mike Ashman, a popular radio announcer for KTOH, Kauai's first commercial radio station, takes readers back to the days when sugar plantatio...
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Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii :
Kauai Historical Society,
[2004]
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| Summary: | "Kauai As It Was In The 1940s and '50s is a first-hand account of life on Kauai as it was lived in the radio days of the 1940s and 1950s. Author Mike Ashman, a popular radio announcer for KTOH, Kauai's first commercial radio station, takes readers back to the days when sugar plantations were the center of island life, and Honolulu was a far, faraway place. Ashman's cast of characters include "Mr. Kauai," Charlie Fern, the long-time editor of The Garden Island newspaper, the local musicians he shared a bandstand with, the famous, and the infamous. Ashman captures the pathos of Kauai's tight-knit community in the uncertain days prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the era when the island emerged from its rural isolation in the heady post-war years of the late 1940s and early 1950s."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 0824817664 9780824817664 0824829042 9780824829049 |