01-16-2025, 12:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2025, 12:41 AM by Moderator 2.)
(01-15-2025, 11:45 PM)Obie Wrote: Patricia
I was part of a group of like minded people who bought into a substandard subdivision that was overrun with ice heads, thieves, and run down housing.
You seem to be more interested in returning HPP to its beginnings.
Edited
Your information would be confusing to those reading it, who do not know/understand that the substandard subdivision of which you speak was/is not HPP.
Hawaiian Paradise Park, as per the first residents who actually lived here was (as per the Hawsii Tribune 1980)
"about 100 homes in the big subdivision, most of them built by retired Mainlanders, when the association was being organized in the early 1970's, it was necessary to include in the membership the largest percentage of lot owners who still live on the Mainland. The response was good and now there are about 1,500 of them in the association who actively support the hui's various developments (the hui is the legal entity of the association; the country club and recreational park is another division, and the road maintenance another).
But there has been a change in the structure of residents in recent years, as indicated by Helen Gehm, 'When we first came over in 1971, almost everyone who lived here were Mainland retirees. Now there are quite a few island residents, working people and young families representing all the ethnic groups.'"
Hawaiian Paradise Park was pretty much Mainlanders with money who had been "large and in charge" for several years before a shift in demographics started to take place. As in, "young families representing all the ethnic groups."
Not everything is about "ice-heads, thieves, and run down properties," Obie. Those can and do happen everywhere. Even in Wyoming.