Watumull family the focus of BBC atricle

[Rob Tucker]

For those who like to read some history.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3r0znzmjo

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

This is a great story.  I had no idea of their connection to the Aloha Shirt, or all of the adversity they faced as immigrants.  Yet, the family was so successful there’s no mention of HPP as one of their accomplishments unless you count:

In 1955, the brothers split the business with Jhamandas and Gulab keeping its retail portion while Gobindram's family took over its real estate section.

[Punatang]

Incredible story.  It is remarkable how those exact same planks are still winning elections today.     

[kalianna]

Iʻm wondering if the pic of the dudes in duds might be the Proud Boys, who have appropriated Aloha shirts. No pics of Hawaiians available?

[Punatang]

Better ask Tom about all of that. This seems like his kuleana Kalianna. I don't even know what BBC stands for. Based British Channel?

[MyManao]

there’s no mention of HPP as one of their accomplishments..

An accomplishment? If I did all sorts of this and that I might not think a substandard subdivision was something to go on about.

[HiloJulie]

It’s probably safe to say that to the Watumull family conglomerate, HPP is but a rounding error on their Balance Sheet.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I might not think a substandard subdivision was something to go on about.

I meant accomplishment from the perspective of a professional writer for the BBC. Who is writing a positive story about the Watumull family.

Those stories tend to have a different style of presentation than that of a disgruntled social media poster.

[Obie]

I hope you can read this.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/honol.../35582326/

HPP was considered an investment community and it has been and will continue to be.
Lots of people have made a bunch of money.

[TomK]

How did I get dragged along with the proud boys into this thread?