The latest issue of Sports Illustrated arrived yesterday and a number of pages were devoted to Candlestick Park. The final sporting event was held there three days ago and they’re going to tear the old place down. Built in 1960, it was a horrible venue for sports or anything else, notorious for being cold and…
If you’ve lived in Hawaii for as long as I have – It’ll be fifty years in May – you’ve become used to being treated differently from folks living in the continental U.S. … or, as we say, “on the mainland”. For instance, when we order some kind of merchandise on line, we are often…
Today was the final day of the 2010 baseball season and the San Francisco Giants, by defeating the San Diego Padres, became champions of their division. The Giants have thousands of fans in Hawaii who were passionately interested in watching this winner-take-all game on television. However, when they turned on their TV sets, this is…
Those of us privileged to live in Hawaii seldom get any sympathy from mainland folks when we complain about the occasional downside. For instance, when a mail order company whacks us a $20 or $30 surcharge to send something here and Sheila-the-Mail-Lady delivers it for the same six bucks it would have cost someone in…