"If one of the arguments that everyone should get to blow off fireworks in Hawaii is because it’s cultural and part of the Hawaiian heritage, around what date give or take a decade or two did the average Hawaiian resident have the wherewithal and resources to buy and blow off fireworks?"
I've not been able to find any specific answer to your question HOTPE, that is with a definitive reliable source, except to say that the consensus of what I've read and discussed with some close Hawaiian elders my husband and I know is that the popularity started around the late 1800's to early 1900's.
I can't imagine that fireworks would have been an abundant commodity during the Royality days, but from everything I've read so far, it is generally published that the fireworks at New Years were indeed a result of Chinese immigration and the bringing of that tradition to the Hawaiian people occurred in the late 1800's early 1900's.
But for now, I am going with the answer my almost 90-year-old neighbor - a lifelong resident of the Big Island and Native Hawaiian said when I asked her your question:
"When first J. Hara store open!"
"There was a canon in Hawaii in the 1800’s too, but the average guy didn’t have one to fire off on his birthday."
Let's not give anyone anymore suggestions!
I've not been able to find any specific answer to your question HOTPE, that is with a definitive reliable source, except to say that the consensus of what I've read and discussed with some close Hawaiian elders my husband and I know is that the popularity started around the late 1800's to early 1900's.
I can't imagine that fireworks would have been an abundant commodity during the Royality days, but from everything I've read so far, it is generally published that the fireworks at New Years were indeed a result of Chinese immigration and the bringing of that tradition to the Hawaiian people occurred in the late 1800's early 1900's.
But for now, I am going with the answer my almost 90-year-old neighbor - a lifelong resident of the Big Island and Native Hawaiian said when I asked her your question:
"When first J. Hara store open!"
"There was a canon in Hawaii in the 1800’s too, but the average guy didn’t have one to fire off on his birthday."
Let's not give anyone anymore suggestions!
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