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MK: Good morning. Today is Friday, February 17th, Morning, Dale. MK: Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
When and where you were born and how your family got to Hawaii? DH: Sure. I feel very lucky I was born here in Hawaii. My parents had a small cottage-like house down on Paoakalani Street in Waikiki a couple blocks from the ocean.
We lived there for a couple years and went to the beach at Waikiki. My parents were members of the Outrigger and I spent a lot of time down there on that beach. I feel very fortunate to have grown up down there where you could see the likes of the Woody Browns and the George Downings and the beach boys and the surfers and all the koa boats on the beach.
MK: The boats and the surfboards and not as many tourists or not as many hotels as today. DH: Yeah. As a young kid, I used to just go back to the surfboard locker and look at all those boards and marvel at those big balsa tall boards and would look at every single one of them and go back and do it countless times. DH: I surfed. I learned how to surf out there.
