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Whalesong: A pictorial history of whaling and Hawaiʻi

History

MacKinnon, Simpson

Australia & Oceania

Beyond Words Publishing

"Next Stop Honolulu" is the story of the Oahu Railway &amp; Land Company, a narrow-gauge railroad that served the island and its residents for nearly 60 years. It enabled (and was made possible by) the sugar and pineapple industries that were the economic engine of Hawaii in the early days. The train also made Honolulu accessible to and from the rest of the Island for passengers and freight. 
In addition to taking raw sugar to the docks and pineapples to the canneries, it hauled garbage to the dump, South Seas guano fertilizer to plantations, coral concrete to construction sites, landfill to lagoons, oil and gasoline and on and on. During and prior to each war it hauled shore guns to batteries, ammunition to bases and depots and ships, and soldiers and sailors to the downtown bars and brothels. It had 4 heavy Mikado locomotives (sisters to those still on the Durango line in Colorado) and a host of other steam locomotives. 
The Oahu Railway was one of the most sophisticated narrow-gauge lines in the country, featuring automatic block signals, a double tracked mainline, and helper engine service on the steep grade to Wahiawa. 
"Next Stop Honolulu" is a definitive history of the Oahu Railway, but is also a lens through which to view and understand the history of Hawaii across an era that took the Islands from a sleepy whaling port to a key part of the US, poised for statehood. It contains a rich selection of photographs, drawings, and newspaper clips that tell the story in the words of the day. 
This book will delight those with an interest in Hawaiian history, as well as rail fans and modelers. Keywords: Hawaiian Railroads, Oahu Railway, Railroads in Hawaii, Hawaii transportation history.

Next Stop Honolulu! The Story of the Oahu Railway & Land Company

Jim Chiddix

Americas

Sugar Cane Press

A perspective of the role streetcars played in shaping of urban life in the early days of Honolulu.

Streetcar Days in Honolulu: Breezing Through Paradise

Simpson, MacKinnon

Brizdle, John

J L B Pr

"A pictorial history depicted through vintage and contemporary photography and vignettes about the creation of modern Honolulu, tracing the city's beginnings in 1905 through 2005"--Provided by publisher.

A Century Of Aloha: The Creation of Modern Honolulu

Mutual Publishing

The story of the USS Arizona encompasses far more than the milli-second BOOM! that split her hull and snuffed out the lives of 1177 men aboard her. The huge battleship led a fascinating life before her demise, and--as a poignant symbol of the attack that thrust the United States into World War II--has impacted millions of lives since. She lays where she sank, in the silt of Pearl Harbor, spanned now by a graceful white memorial that pays tribute to her dead. MacKinnon Simpson's newest book, USS Arizona - Warship Tomb Monument, pays tribute to the ship, her crews, and her symbolism through the years. Packed with many rarely-before seen images, the book includes such unlikely characters as Elvis Presley, whose benefit concert helped trigger the fund-raising for the Memorial, and Henry Williams, a three-year-old boy who placed the first bolt in her keel in 1915 and read a newspaper by the light of her raging fires as a lieutenant at Pearl Harbor in 1941. USS Arizona - Warship Tomb Monument tells a story that needed to be told, of why the Arizona is still so important to people from around the world who trek to visit her each year.

USS Arizona: Warship - Tomb - Monument

Military

Bess Press

Hawaii Homefront: Life in the Islands During World War II grew out of many long conversations with those who experienced the era firsthand, from civilian war workers at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and the "Underground" at Red Hill to Navy pilots stationed at Kaneohe and Hilo Bay; from housewives and Red Cross volunteers to Provost Marshall Frank Steer who ran the Islands under martial law; from submariners who partied at the Royal Hawaiian between war patrols to HRT trolley bus operators trundling young men to th "boogie houses" in Chinatown; and from members of the 100th and 442nd who fought ferociously to prove their patriotism and then came home determined to improve life in Hawaii for everyone. Long before this book had any photos or paintings or maps, it had the collective memories of those whose lives changed forever on December 7.

Hawaii Homefront: Life in the Islands During World War II

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