The end of Maui's West Side was the building of the Honuakai hotels and timeshares. We already had plenty hotel rooms and some of us knew this was a disaster. Those buildings will never be demolished and so the overwhelming numbers of low $/person guests are here to stay.
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Political class? There are classes excluded from participating in politics there?
I guess it is a personal point of reference. For me the end of Maui's West Side was the building of the Honoapiilani Highway. Prior to that the drive to Honolua Bay from Lahaina was to take Lower Honoapiilani Road. The old road definitely made it more of an effort to drive to the upper West Side.
Revisiting a lot of Places with my son that I used to frequent when I was a kid. Oahu has really declined in maintenance and overall up keep, looks pretty shitty these days. Maybe I remember them better than they were or maybe tourism spending has been flat since the 80s and we Have more and more people living and visiting here depreciating everything.
Usually local politcians are backed by developers. When elected, the politicians help the developers with permits and zoning. This builds the developers monetary capital usually at the expense of social capital and public infrastructure. Somehow housing always seems to get more expensive when they do this despite there being more of it.
Everywhere looks run down. We dont take care of our people or places. Too busy funding wars and giving our money away to other countries that dont deserve it. It is sad.
The increase of Residents since the 1960's is a bit overwhelming. Figures that I can find show the increases for Oahu and Maui.
Oahu 1960 population was 500,409
Oahu 2021 population is 1,000,890
Maui 1960 population was 35,717
Maui 2021 population is 165,386
Agreed that there has been a decline in maintenance and overall upkeep. The condition of facilities is really saddening when compare them today to my youth. Not sure the reason, but one would think that there are enough County employees to address the situation. Say what one will about the military, when the Navy was still in possession of Barbers Point Naval Air Station, the beach areas were kept up well, After the Station was closed and turned over to the State the area has never been close to the same.
Makua Rothman is going to be our new city councilman so things should be looking up soon
It is going to be interesting how Penn does in the race. Definitely seems to be an growing undercurrent of support for him. My Son dropped off a Penn for Governor T shirt for me this weekend. Definitely drew positive comments at the beach with the Grand Kids this weekend.
Hau'ula boys represent hahaha
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Definitely good days. You could have seen why Kahekili Beach is referred to as "Airport Beach". Interesting place to land and/or take off.
The side guys deserve accolades.Hau'ula boys represent hahaha
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That lower road was pretty sweet when pulling up to Honolulu with the monkey pod tree's on the mauka side and a view of the Bay through the narrow opening of overgrown grass, the shade from the trees and hop scotching over the rocks to get to the ocean and further up the road to the top of the dirt roads of the pineapple fields and onward. Late 1960's / early 1970's.
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Same big boy tiger shark that shows up every summer chased my brother in law out of the lineup at Sunset point yesterday and cruised around the boneyard for a while flexing. What an asshole
Lol I can't believe I missed this. Our new police chief's first news conference was about his son getting arrested. 
https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/adult-son-of-newly-named-honolulu-police-chief-arrested/article_4ed3e5d0-dc98-11ec-94db-5ff21df9704e.html
https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/adult-son-of-newly-named-honolulu-police-chief-arrested/article_4ed3e5d0-dc98-11ec-94db-5ff21df9704e.html
OK now that's fuggin funny!Lol I can't believe I missed this. Our new police chief's first news conference was about his son getting arrested.
https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/adult-son-of-newly-named-honolulu-police-chief-arrested/article_4ed3e5d0-dc98-11ec-94db-5ff21df9704e.html