KailuaKid is the product of Kailua High School graduate, Rick Helin. Rick's avocation is the preservation of history through the use of vintage films. Rick digitally remasters images from yesterday using a High Definition telecine converter courtesy of the California Pioneers of Santa Clara County.
Great videos of a long lost Miami not destroyed by a hurricane but destroyed by greed, corruption and Trump style architecture. To quote a John Grogan it has become one ugly building after another full of glass and stuck up assholes.
Today, 20/7/2024, Sydney is an extremely dark city at night. Street lighting is so poor in the suburbs some times while driving, its hard to see people in dark clothes crossing midd street. Then hospitality with non professional waiters on working visas, coffee shops closing at 3 pm and kirchens at 9 pm, and pubs at 12 am, make Sydney a very BORING place....too late to move to Melbourne....🤣🧉
Our last year at Strawberry, we decided to not bring our motorhome because the gas prices were so high. We went with our tent and tarps, and Coleman stove, barely found a site on the high side of main road. What a mess that was, we ate at the food court. God bless those great folks cooking hot food for all. That was one wet and cold festival !
Outstanding footage! It's clear that whoever started building Coral Gables, Miami, and Miami Beach intended the area to be a place of beauty that reflected the beauty then of La Habana, not the ugly suburban hellscape of Miami-Dade and South Florida today!
If the people who built that beautiful country saw it now.... They would burn it. I apologise on behalf of everyone in Australia right now. Yep ..we finally destroyed the place. Let's all give each other a pat on the back. Everything good about Australia is now bought out sold out and long gone. Again. Let's all give each other a pat on the back. And a big thanks to mass immigration..for we couldn't of done it alone
My mother was 20 in 1940, she lived with my grandparents in Clovelly, and on weekdays caught a tram to work in the City at the old AMP building in Pitt St. All these scenes are ones she knew well. I can just imagine her walking through them (in her hat and gloves) along with her family sister and friends. Thanks so much Kailua Kid for uploading them, you've brought a page of my family history back to life.
Fantastic film, nice to see Tasmania in the 1940s in colour! Ross Bridge was completed in 1836 and is 106 years old at the time this film was made so this film dates 1942! I personally grew up in Tassie myself as a kid in the 1980s and seeing a bit of Deloraine in this film 8:05 made me smile as I used to live about 20 min away from Deloraine and Deloraine Hotel was one of my dad's watering holes, on my recent visit to Tassie in 2022 I had dinner at Deloraine Hotel which is still thriving today! The majority old buildings on the main street (Emu Bay Rd) of Deloraine are still there but with new shops and cafes and there's also Subway fast food chain. Tassie is good for keeping most of its old buildings! Anyhow there is very little colour footage of Australia back in the 1940s (even with colour photos) so this footage along with the other Australian films made by this filmmaker is a real treasure!!! Thanks for sharing!
Born and raised in Aiea 1967 I am so thankful to my parents for letting me grow up near the sugar mill in Aiea . I can still remember summers packed in a van going to Haleiwa and seeing sugarcane then pineapple then on the slope down from Wahiawa the sugarcane . Drying off as the sun was setting using wash clothes and the melted ice water to wash off before getting a plate with fresh cooked BBQ and homemade rice balls .Father would turn the radio on to the AM Hawaiian station on the way back . No street lights by Kunia so it was dark. Best memories being the only kid awake hearing static Hawaiian music with the greenish lights from the dash lighting my dads face. My mom telling my dad To make sure the kids change as soon as we went into the house even though we all just wanted to sleep
A couple of friends of mine raced their sports cars there back then, 1960 or 61 I guess. I went to the track with them many times. One of them, Bob Keys, had a Lotus 7a. I remember him spending hours sitting on his porch grinding out the ports with a dremel tool, putting in larger valves, boring out the cylinders to the water jacket and pressing in sleeves, on and on. Raced it a couple of times where he could finally keep up with the modified Corvette on the straights. Used the money from selling it to get a Lotus formula jr. I think I saw that Lotus formula jr. in the film.
It's really sad what has become of this once beautiful and fertile valley. I grew up in the coyote area off Bailey Ave. I'm an 80s kid and remember all the fruit orchards and vegetable orchards. I remember seeing everything slowly being stripped away. By the mid-1990s, it was gone. I miss the scent of summer nights when the sprinklers misted the fields and the moon and stars lit the night.
It was a great city until Andrews ruined it. Those in power under labor ruled by the despot Andrews (now thankfully departed), should never be forgiven for what they did during the lockdown and mandate hysteria and not to mention, their woke social agenda. Yet the people voted them back in again. Unbelievable!
