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Post #4915 by Kilikopela on Thu, Aug 1, 2002 8:27 PM

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At the Hukilau I finally got to meet Kailuageoff. He is truly a wealth of knowledge for the rare southeast Poly-pop culture and is very much inline with Sven's way of thinking regarding preserving and promoting our Tiki culture. (I also had the rare chance to hang with Sven quite a bit at the Hukilau as well. EVERYONE there was great!)

One of our discussions (Kailua and I) was in regards to an appreciation of, and need to preserve, the past. Many people of Kailua's generation (sorry!) and slightly older do not see the need to preserve our culture developed from the 1930's through the 1960's. They don't consider it "antique" and don't see much value in it. Well for those of us who do like it, check this out...

http://www.archive.org/movies/

This site is all documentaries and educational films from the early days of movies.

I don't have a "high speed" connection, so it's impractical for me to watch 'em. But I was at a buddy's pad and spent two hours watching these incredible movies. One was produced by the city of Portland (sometime in the late 50's) demonstrating how to evacuate the city in the event of nuclear war. Another was of some guys on a "fishing expidition" in SoCal where they were just riding around in boats harpooning whatever big fish/creature came to the surface. They also have car advertisements and other stuff. I hope that at least a few of you appreciate this link (actually, I hope this isn't old news to all of you...)

Anyway, I'm off to the Bahamas for a week of spearfishing myself, but will be going to the Mai Kai on August 10th for the 7pm show if any of you are in the area.

Aloooooohaaa!