Hawaii
1971: Fasi lavishes praise
on Makaha resort
developmentMAYOR Frank Fasi surprised UH travel management students last Friday by telling them that Chinn Ho's Makaha development is a high-quality resort that will be an excellent addition to the Oahu tourist scene and will offer almost as much resort land as exists in Waikiki. He said he has disagreed with Ho on other things but not on Makaha. Fasi's remarks came after a dinner guest disparaged the new Leeward Oahu road as the Chinn Ho Highway. (Jan. 17, 1971) ...
DESIGNER Arthur Elrod and his Palm Springs associate, Steve Chase, are here putting finishing touches on Kaiser Estate redecoration plans for new owners Alfred and Monte Goldman. Elrod has decorated some of he world's plushest establishments and currently is finishing a Sardinian retreat for the Aga Khan. To catch a glimpse of Elrod's personal taste, you might check out the James Bond movie, "Diamonds Are Forever." The designer's personal home was the setting for the film. (Jan. 18. 1972) ...
GOLF champ Willy Cannon of Bank of Hawaii is leaving later this month to defend his title in the businessmen's division of American airlines' Golf Classic in Puerto Rico. This is the tourney in which 66 top baseball and football players team with 66 top businessmen from around the country for 54 holes. Because he won last year, Cannon gets to return. And also invited from Hawaii this year is Dillingham honcho Herb Cornuelle. (Jan. 18, 1973) ...
THINGS about our State you may not know: According to the 1973 World Almanac, Hawaii has the lowest all-time high temperature (100 degrees in Pahala) of the 50 states, and also the highest all-time low temperature (14 one year on the slopes of Haleakala). Hawaii, in fact, is the only state that has never had below zero temperature. (Jan. 17, 1974) ... Erskine Caldwell's new book, "Afternoons in Mid-America" reveals that Howard Hughes was baptized in Keokuk, Iowa. I knew there was SOMETHING we had in common. (Jan. 15, 1977) ...
PLAYWRIGHT Aldyth Morris must have set some sort of record -- in her last two plays, she's written no dialogue. Both "Damien" and her current "R.L.S." are one-man plays, and therefore monologues. The newest effort is playing Mondays and Tuesdays at the Hawaii Performing Arts Company's Manoa Valley Theater through Feb. 7. (Jan. 16, 1978) ...
CORDCO honcho Ed Reinhart and developer Frank "Bamboo" Opperman are ready to 'fess up. They've been reading about the tremendous snowfall at Lake Tahoe, inundating the ski areas with much more white stuff than anyone could possibly use, and the two localites are ready to accept any and all blame. Seems they were there on Christmas Day and, hoping for more snow to see them through the holidays, did an impromptu "snow dance" for an amused apres ski crowd. Trouble is, it hasn't stopped snowing since, and Reinhart and Opperman are wondering of a "'Nuff Already" dance is in order. (Jan. 18, 1982) ...
IWA stories are still with us -- witness this one from the Mauna Kea. Two weeks before Hurricane Iwa hit, Rev. Abraham Akaka blessed the resort's renovated luau gardens and a nearby ancient Hawaiian fishing shrine which had been restored. During the heavy winds that hit the Big Isle while Iwa was raving Kauai, a giant keawe tree was knocked down, but fortuitously split exactly in half as it fell, thereby sparrng the just-blessed improvements. (Jan. 13, 1983) ...
GETTING away from the San Francisco party circuit for a few weeks is S.F. Chronicle society columnist Pat Steger. She's really getting away, spending most of her time in Makaha. Her arrival here was a stormy one. Convinced she'd left her return ticket on the United Airlines plane, she got word to UAL officials who began a search. She had Chinese food for lunch yesterday and thought it ironic that her fortune cookie said, "This is your lucky day." But perhaps those cookie makers know something -- after lunch her husband discovered that he was holding the ticket and it wasn't lost after all. Cancel that search party. (Jan. 13, 1989) ...
The Week That Was recalls events culled from Dave Donnelly's three-dot columns over the past 30 years. Donnelly continues to write his Hawaii column Tuesdays through Fridays in the Star-Bulletin.
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com