I was stationed at Hickam AFB through all of 1985 and most of 1986. It was a rought first duty on lowly E3 pay, but it was a lot of fun as well. It has been strange seeing how much my old stomping grounds have changed. The Shore Bird is still in place, and still a fun, beach front bar in the Outrigger Reef hotel just off Lewers street. Lewers is totally changed though, instead of a narrow street lined with seedy and comfortable bars and nightclubs (Red Lion, Jazz Cellar, etc) it is wide, well lit, and completely over-hauled as a shopping street like any designer/fashion mall on the mainland. Red Lion has moved over to Kalakaua. Shore Bird is still there and largely unchanged, though I could find no evidence of the dance floor we used to use in the 80s. Erci and I enjoyed a drink each from the Shore Bird and then a fantastic dinner at the Ocean House restaurant next door, and also right on the beach where we watched moonlight play on the water and beach strollers walk by.
Earlier today we visited the Arizona Memorial and then caught TheBus back to Ala Moana Center for lunch in the food court, visited the Apple store, watched some koi in the mall’s ponds and streams, and then caught the Waikiki bus back to a grocer then the hotel for some pool time. Tomorrow I think we’ll try to find botanical gardens somewhere…
The trend to combine pagers and mobile phones has one major drawback: I continue to get pages from work because I want and need my mobile phone, but would love to have left my pager behind. It appears that Erci may be fighting off a cold.
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