12-30-2007, 03:47 PM
HISstory, ah yes. "In the old days",
A. they had no Walmart.
B. the islands had so little population the yelling at your kids wouldn't be heard by 10 of you neighbors unless you lived in a "work camp".I lived in the manager's house in the Papa aloa Estates, next to a gulch that was only full of banana trees and pigs.
C. There wasn't a highway around the island, people road the train. If you haven't been the the Lapahoehoe Train Museum you're missing out on a lot of Hawaii, island history.
D. RESOURCES. Do I have an extra differential that fits my truck sitting out back under a tarp? You bet. Does it look like junk? Definitely. When the one goes out in my truck will I be glad I saved it? Priceless.
30 years ago when I was wondering where all the rental cars went when they bought new ones each year, I realized these were the rusted out "island cars" lots of people drove around in until they were so worn out, they'd fall apart, literally.
"Our", (and I don't include myself with the word and the next one) ETHNOCENTRICITY, is mostly a result of the bay boomers, TV and the leave it to beaver bubble we we're raised on. But that was then, this is now. We cannot do what we did in the past. All the mega fires are teaching us that lesson harshly all over the Western states.
Same here, 30 years ago there weren't nearly the cars, population and desire to escape the mainland as now especially since the turn of the century and 911.
But it is a primarily a "white affluent flight". And most definitely it not a bunch of poor people moving in. [Save for those out priced from Oahu's housing market} who've moved in to subdivisions like Nanawalli and Ainaloa, because lot are smaller lots cheaper than HPP or HA, not to mention Hamakua Coast$$$ or the West side.
What was done in the past was done because there weren't trash dumps all over the place as we now have for free. (Let them always be that way please)! Anyone who's watched that tow truck at the 76 station in town disintegrate over the years know what living in the middle of the ocean does to steal. ISLAND, means limited resources. Yes the BIG Island has more than all the other combined, but it to is finite.
Having a yard full of stuff is for some is being resourceful, others it's OCD, and others? they're just pigs. If you have pigs living next to you in paradise it can't be pleasant.
Makes no difference if you came from East or West, North or South to this rock. And blogging for years won't do as much as calling the county offices responsible for policing, enforcing and and making sure follow up is conducted. How many people read this web site?
County numbers are all available, 411, white pages.com, Hawaii County website. Call them and complain, report and encourage, them to do what Hawaii sec. 20 (Refuse) instructs them to do. a 1000 calls might wake up someone. Elections are coming, who's running on the aina ticket this time? Sorry Harry, but the most damage I've seen happen to this County has been under your 2 terms. And you ran on a aina ticket, no?
When others came here in centuries past the world was different. What they did then has little to do with the world today. They didn't leave us with a giant land fill. That's happened in the last few decades. I have bottles, (brown apothecary and green poison ones) that I dug up in my backyard in San Francisco when I was going to SFSU, and living in Merced heights. Sandy soil where in the 1800's they just buried or burned their trash. I also found a woman's lace up boot, a gold tip from a fountain pen. One person's trash is another's treasure, give or take a century.
One last thing I have to say is the ripping of lots pin to pin all over the puna rain forest, which is all of puna. Will eventually cause change to the micro climate we now enjoy. Keep it up and get used to drought and trucking in water like Oceanview has to. In the mean time
call your county and state tax-paid employees, ask em wasup?
Oh and I loved Switzerland. But Amsterdam was mo betta. And you think we have freedoms, lol.
A. they had no Walmart.
B. the islands had so little population the yelling at your kids wouldn't be heard by 10 of you neighbors unless you lived in a "work camp".I lived in the manager's house in the Papa aloa Estates, next to a gulch that was only full of banana trees and pigs.
C. There wasn't a highway around the island, people road the train. If you haven't been the the Lapahoehoe Train Museum you're missing out on a lot of Hawaii, island history.
D. RESOURCES. Do I have an extra differential that fits my truck sitting out back under a tarp? You bet. Does it look like junk? Definitely. When the one goes out in my truck will I be glad I saved it? Priceless.
30 years ago when I was wondering where all the rental cars went when they bought new ones each year, I realized these were the rusted out "island cars" lots of people drove around in until they were so worn out, they'd fall apart, literally.
"Our", (and I don't include myself with the word and the next one) ETHNOCENTRICITY, is mostly a result of the bay boomers, TV and the leave it to beaver bubble we we're raised on. But that was then, this is now. We cannot do what we did in the past. All the mega fires are teaching us that lesson harshly all over the Western states.
Same here, 30 years ago there weren't nearly the cars, population and desire to escape the mainland as now especially since the turn of the century and 911.
But it is a primarily a "white affluent flight". And most definitely it not a bunch of poor people moving in. [Save for those out priced from Oahu's housing market} who've moved in to subdivisions like Nanawalli and Ainaloa, because lot are smaller lots cheaper than HPP or HA, not to mention Hamakua Coast$$$ or the West side.
What was done in the past was done because there weren't trash dumps all over the place as we now have for free. (Let them always be that way please)! Anyone who's watched that tow truck at the 76 station in town disintegrate over the years know what living in the middle of the ocean does to steal. ISLAND, means limited resources. Yes the BIG Island has more than all the other combined, but it to is finite.
Having a yard full of stuff is for some is being resourceful, others it's OCD, and others? they're just pigs. If you have pigs living next to you in paradise it can't be pleasant.
Makes no difference if you came from East or West, North or South to this rock. And blogging for years won't do as much as calling the county offices responsible for policing, enforcing and and making sure follow up is conducted. How many people read this web site?
County numbers are all available, 411, white pages.com, Hawaii County website. Call them and complain, report and encourage, them to do what Hawaii sec. 20 (Refuse) instructs them to do. a 1000 calls might wake up someone. Elections are coming, who's running on the aina ticket this time? Sorry Harry, but the most damage I've seen happen to this County has been under your 2 terms. And you ran on a aina ticket, no?
When others came here in centuries past the world was different. What they did then has little to do with the world today. They didn't leave us with a giant land fill. That's happened in the last few decades. I have bottles, (brown apothecary and green poison ones) that I dug up in my backyard in San Francisco when I was going to SFSU, and living in Merced heights. Sandy soil where in the 1800's they just buried or burned their trash. I also found a woman's lace up boot, a gold tip from a fountain pen. One person's trash is another's treasure, give or take a century.
One last thing I have to say is the ripping of lots pin to pin all over the puna rain forest, which is all of puna. Will eventually cause change to the micro climate we now enjoy. Keep it up and get used to drought and trucking in water like Oceanview has to. In the mean time
call your county and state tax-paid employees, ask em wasup?
Oh and I loved Switzerland. But Amsterdam was mo betta. And you think we have freedoms, lol.