A HEAVEN CALLED HONOLULU

[Music] e good evening ladies and gentlemen this is Jack Douglas people who have never been to Honolulu know of it as the capital of one of America's most beautiful States but the millions who have visited the sparkling City by the Pacific Shores think of it in more ecstatic terms this is your armchair vacation and mine too uh Heaven called These are the famous landmarks all visitors to Honolulu look for Diamond Head and the loha tower at the harbor and the beach front where the blue of the sea washes the Golden Sands but this is the new Honolulu looking very much incidentally like Miami or Phoenix Arizona well Honolulu and Hawaii have changed much and for the better since Captain Cook discovered the specific Paradise in 1778 now at first the natives regarded cook as a God and he was treated as such but on his return to the islands a year later the great explorer was killed in a skirmish with the natives we can see from these old prints that the early Hawaiians were a handsome people and noted for their courage and willingness to wage war this painting illustrates that unfortunate fry in which the world lost one of history's most incredible Navigators Captain Cook about 70 years after cook Honolulu looked like this a thriving Community indeed and here as Diamond Head as it was in 18 compared with today this closer view eliminates the ocean well after a quick air trip of only a few hours from the West Coast Hawaiian Hospitality takes over and then in the city there's a welcome show in store for us sponsored by a big company that makes cameras and Motion Picture film it's probably the most photographed show on the [Music] islands all right we've been welcomed to Honolulu but where do we stay well the distinguished Royal Hawaiian is always a Top Choice and so is the reef Hotel on Waki Beach especially after Sundown on Monday nights when the reef presents a show that originated back in 1954 a KN in the Philippines this review created by Orlando and Pat Valentin is a musical and dancing tour through the Philippines here are some of the colorful excerpts and first the ique I or duck dance the MTI is the dance of the coconut [Applause] shells [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now in a different mood the show offers a dance called young Maiden Dancing in the [Music] Moonlight [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the Hawaiian Village has received much well-deserved publicity in recent years and here is one of the minor reasons the ceremony that precedes the big daily Luau at the Village the giant kala pig is carried aoft with much fanfare I might add to the Emu or Barbecue Pit where a crowd of Spectators stands by to offer encouragement and even some advice this ancient Polynesian style of barbecuing takes hours so we'll just sort of change the scene to the dinner hour and the luau feast itself well the table bulges with a variety of exotic foods most of which are eaten without silverware especially Po and as the saying goes don't knock it until you've tried it so this attractive guest tries it and well all right even in downtown Han Lulu you dress as you please and the surfboard is a sort of status symbol taking us to the beach naturally in Honolulu the beach means Waki and you know if anything this world renowned strip of sand has become Lovelier and more glamorous as the city has grown W Kei by the way is the official headquarters for the Fraternal Order of girl [Music] Watchers this youngster isn't concerned with girls where in the world is Mommy but seriously if Honolulu is a Haven for worn out parents it is Sheer Heaven for the children until about 5:00 p.m. when Mom and Dad decide it's time to go back to the hotel and then wow comes the revolution the younger set teenage and up will usually be found at makao point where the waves break just right for body surfing no surf boards are used although smaller boys and girls will wisely Take Along a belly board known as a piper this this is where the action is at makao [Music] Point a Shore at makapu point just 13 miles from W Kei you really must visit this entertainment Arena known as Sea Life Park it has the largest exhibit of marine life in the world and the theme of the park is the sea and man's relationship to the the world of water this man-made lake a pool of 1 million gallons of water is called Whaler's Cove the habitat of trained spinning corpuses they are marvelous to [Music] watch now here they are in slow motion suddenly a lovely Hawaiian beauty appears and the porpuses celebrate with a hoola and what a lovely setting this is now let's meet one of the forpus trainers Miss Randy Lewis here at Sea Life Park we're doing a lot of research work besides doing shows for tourists one of the things that I'm working on here is trying to train a bottle-nosed dolphin named V to say hello when ever I hear vill make a sound that sounds like the word hello I'll reward her with the whistle and with fish I'll show you what I mean here's Z come on [Music] hello hello [Music] hello hello thank you Randy and Friends we'll be seeing you soon at this fabulous Sea Life Park on the second or third day of your Honolulu holiday you will find yourself at the international marketplace in the heart of Waki you can't miss it you shouldn't miss it and if you did you would probably never forgive yourself in this one Marketplace there are more than 50 shops restaurants and nightclubs let alone a variety of interesting outdoor shows and Exhibits devoted to the preservation of Hawaiian culture not to those who might say well everybody goes to the marketplace I would have to answer everyone who goes to Paris sees the Eiffel Tower I think you will want to spend the better part of a day here and the chances are that you will visit the market more than once during your stay this giant catamaran the Ali Ali Kai 5 is not merely a vessel you wistfully Admire from the shore for this 100t beauty is a commercial passenger carrying catamaran and for just a few dollars you too can be a passenger on one of her many daily 2 and 3our cruises the sunset dinner sailings are the most colorful of all and what sunsets these are you're free to take your Buffet dinner on Deck enjoying the music and songs of some of the crew and after dinner you figure you might as well learn the hoola at Sea and really surprise the land lovers the next [Music] [Music] day very good wonderful day fishing 1 [Music] 2 yes they're having a ball and isn't this a happy and a nice way to spend a historic buildings in America this one in Honolulu is indeed singular and most unique Iolani Palace is the only Royal Palace in the 50 states and today it's merely a famous tourist attraction but only a few Generations ago the kings and queens of Hawaii held Court in the throne room Queen kahanu was one of the early monarchs but Queen liliuokalani is best remembered by history she lived from 1838 until 1917 but ruled for only several years before the turn of the century at Iolani Palace the Honolulu Academy of Art is another must for it has one of the finest collections of Oriental art in all the world this classic banana plant screen is 16th century mineral colors on gold paper the Limestone Buddha is a thousand years older possibly of the Tang Dynasty 600 to 650 ad this now is the scroll of the hund geese ink on paper dating back to the 12th century and here's a more distinct section of this Exquisite scroll considered one of the most priceless in the western world and here is magnificent antique wallpaper designed and made in France between 1804 and 1806 depicting scenes from the Voyages of Captain Cook and to me this alone is worth your visit to the academy which also features classic artworks such as the holy family from the Flemish schol put it down on your list the Honolulu Academy of Art the third and last of our cultural stops is the queen Emma Museum once the summer home of the Beloved Queen Emma and King Kamehameha the 4th of special interest are some of the Queen's favorite possessions a tiger claw necklace gifted to her by an Indian Maharaja a blue agot bracelet from England's Queen Victoria from the Duke of Edinburgh in 1869 Queen Emma received this gold bracelet mounted with a large amethyst enhanced By Diamonds and Pearls and the Queen's monole a neck band of rare yellow feathers Hawaiian yes primitive no Emma was every inch a royal Queen King Kamehameha the first is Hawaii's most striking figure it was he who by War and treaty unified the separate kingdoms of Hawaii and made them as one and few men in history have so completely dominated the formative years of their Nation this chapel and its grounds make up the Royal mosum of Hawaii for here are buried many of the Island's great kings and queens predominantly of the kameha Mayha line to hawise fellow Americans from the other 49 states the Royal emblem is regarded with respect for the monarchs buried here are the only ones who ever occupied a royal Throne on American soil in woli a suburb of Honolulu this modest Grass Hut was the home of a man who looked like a king but who was merely a prince of the pen did I say merely what a magnificent Legacy he left behind this man who has christened Robert Louie Stevenson and this white frame house is even older than the Stevenson Hut it was built in 1821 by some of the pioneer missionaries to Hawaii and it's the oldest frame building in all the islands and this well this is a Manola or sedan chair used by one of the missionary women Mrs Elias Bond native boys would carry her about in this chair in exchange for school books and clothing these mortars or bowls were called dripstones and were used by the missionaries to clear brackish water from Shallow Springs and the stone fireplace was lined with coral growing in abundance on the offshore reefs the Christian missionaries built their churches and the same religious tolerance has been granted to all faiths in Hawaii this striking house of worship is the soo Zen Buddhist temple and we were given the privilege of photographing the altar through the courtesy of the Reverend DKI hunt a former Londoner now in his 80s who has lived in Hawaii for 50 years the reverent hunt became interested in Buddhism as a youth in the British Navy stationed in India and later he studied the faith in Burma and India and he is an ordained Buddhist priest spiritually and architecturally East Meets West at the soo Zen temple the international market we we saw earlier would be dwarfed by the alamoana shopping center the largest in the entire world and everything we're seeing except for the distant Horizon is part of this Mammoth shopping center the buildings are smartly stylish and accented with brilliant colors there are escalators all over the place and despite the caution sign few people wear shoes sandals and bare feet seem to be the order of the day while you're at the center don't miss the chance to lunch at this restaurant overlooking the beautiful aliw Yacht Harbor downtown again the sightseer looking for something unusual on his Honolulu vacation will stop in at hats an abbreviation for Hawaiian air tours these flights tour the major islands but hear this the flights leave at 5:45 a.m. and you won't be back until 6:30 p.m. believe it or not that bull-shaped crater below is how Diamond Head looks from the air the Captain Cook monument at Hawaii Bay island of Hawaii next some of the lava flow area dating back to to the 1950 eruption of monoa it's a lava desert really now we're approaching kilaa crater still smoking and steaming and the most active volcano on the island here the steam escapes from cracks in the Lava Beds and what appears to be a similar scene is actually black Sand's Beach ahead is Mount W the wetest spot in the world and our pilot told us that in his 11 years of flying these tours this was only his second clear view of the mountain the mountain averages from 300 to 600 in of rainfall per year now yaia Valley sometimes called the Grand Canyon of Hawaii Calo Valley inspired Jack London's novel Valley of the Lost tribe it's a remote and not easily accessible Valley by foot finally the famous Forbidden Island niow which does not allow visitors only a small number of pure Hawaiians live on this privately owned Island well on your last day in Honolulu chances are you're going to try to rush around to see as much as you can before departure at punch bow crater also known as the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific You may wish to pay silent tribute to our fallen heroes of Pacific combat Duty in the bright sunlight the legend on the memorial is hard to read it says the solemn Pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom incidentally visitors to Punchbowl crater have an almost unparalleled view of Honolulu and vacationers of all ages but especially the children should stop in at the weiki aquarium and here you'll see more exotic and colorful species of fish than probably anywhere else in the world the colors are just unbelievable the blo hole is a minor yet a famous attraction and contrary to what you've been told it does not make a loud sound at least it didn't while we were here the sightseers are Dorothy and Jerry Gil of Alabama at w halulu Falls your youngsters will say you go home will'll stay well we can't blame them can [Music] we back at the hotel the Royal Hawaiian or any other you won't regret a last fling at the chow line promising Faithfully of course that you'll start counting calories again the moment you get back home but the food superb though it may be is not the major memory of your visit to this richly endowed City indeed I don't know of any one thing that we remember most of all about Honolulu I do know that while we were on the catamaran cruise we asked one of these young people what's your opinion of Honolulu and the reply was man this is heaven and from all that we have seen during this Whirlwind 30-minute tour I think we'll have to agree with the statement this is a heaven called Honolulu who have left the mainland to live in America's 50th State his name is Mr Jack hins the walls of his living room are adorned with his own paintings and jack isn't a great painter nor a poor one but then painting is merely his hobby not his vocation I thought you might be interested in knowing why he and his family moved to Hawaii why does one come to uh Hawaii that's a good question Jack in our case U we came here to semi-retire some people come here to complete the Tire the uh Corporation I've been with for many years decided that uh I'd be just the one to come over here and watch our new interests we bought a large portion of one of the local newspapers Jack I'm really surprised that more people from the West Coast or any part of the Mainland uh don't come over here in greater numbers so many uh think the only place to go is Palm Springs or Fort Lauderdale Florida someplace around there with the low cost now to get here and the easy Transportation the few hours it takes to get here I'm surprised that we don't have at least 2 million visitors a year and Hulu we've got so much to offer here surfing golf anything you can think of in outdoor sports plus uh good entertainment anytime uh it's a way of life that people would be interested in being a part of thank you Mr Hines now