Author : Mike Ashman
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Kauai as it was in the 1940s and '50s by : Mike Ashman
Download or read book Kauai as it was in the 1940s and '50s written by Mike Ashman. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kauai As It Was In The 1940s and '50s is a lively first-hand account of life on Kauai as it was lived in the radio days of the 1940s and 1950s. Author Mike Ashman, a popular radio announcer for KTOH, Kauai's first commercial radio station, takes readers back to the days when sugar plantations were the center of island life, and Honolulu was a far, faraway place. Ashman's cast of characters include "Mr. Kauai," Charlie Fern, the long-time editor of The Garden Island newspaper, the local musicians he shared a bandstand with, the famous, and the infamous. Ashman captures the pathos of Kauai's tight-knit community in the uncertain days prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the era when the island emerged from its rural isolation in the heady post-war years of the late 1940s and early 1950s.