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Each generation remembers the good old days and the way things were. When I came to Honolulu in 1938, the Aloha Tower was the highest building in the city… Green growth was just beginning to creep up on the slopes of Diamond Head…The mahogany trees along Kalalaua Avenue were small… There were three tourist hotels in Waikiki—the small, elegant Halekulani, the Royal Hawaiian owned by the Matson Navigation Company… and the grand old Moana with its Banyan Court where popular band leader Harry Owens played his Saturday morning concerts…

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 brought to a sudden end my happy, carefree, post college years in Honolulu. I found myself on duty that morning in the laboratory of the Queen’s Hospital with only a Japanese aide for a helper. This book tells the story of the major changes that took place during the twenty-four years I spent in the Islands. My marriage to a naval officer engineer took us after the war to the Island of Maui, where we lived first in a rain forest and then on a sugar plantation.