DRIVE INs and MUSIC

At 15 we would go with friends to Kau Kau Korner, one of the many drive-Ins that had "carhops"...That was the place to meet others', hang with the boys and pretend to be grown up.
No one drank anything stronger than Coke. Most of us did smoke cigarettes. Who knew they would eventually be killing some of us.

Another HOTSPOT was Ilima Drive In. The draw was not the party atmosphere but the LIVE disc jockey and loud pop music..and we could go up to the window and dedicate songs over the loud speaker.
Coffee Houses were springing up too. Poetry readings, coffee and cigarettes.

At 16, I had to get a summer job. The first one was at Fort Street Liberty House Lingerie dept. which I absolutely hated and soon found another job selling Hawaiian clothing in Waikiki...which was so much more fun.

Waikiki was so fresh in the mornings when we opened up...the International Market Place was newly opened...we would wash down the sidewalks, hang the shirts and muumuus out for display...birds chirped along with steel guitar and the jungle music of Martin Denny flowing through the huge banyan tree and upstairs restaurants......all day, tourists and locals strolled through this shady marketplace of thatched roofs and fun shopping.

As the sun went down Don the Beachcomber's would open it's doors, stir up those Mai Tais and Don Ho would sing his first, "Tiny Bubbles"..