Dec 1, 1957
Dear Archie and Mable,
Was pleased to hear that you go a deer with Forest. I have
not had a gun out of the case, only to check whether it is in good condition.
We’re having a hurricane coming up. From the south, they
said at first that it would hit our land of area but later it veered off south
of us by 70 miles but, we have had high trade winds and lots of rain since last
night and I just heard over the radio that we’ll still have heavy winds and
rain tonight but will subside tomorrow. Honolulu was hit with pretty hard winds
last night, there’s quite a mountain range between our side of the Island and
Honolulu so it broke quite a bit off the wind.
We had only o banana tree blow over, we are quite sheltered
at our place, we have large Kamania trees there & four feet thick in our
back and the people to our other side have a row of cocoanut trees that break a
lot of wind coming from the east and south.
Give the chap where you work our address and tell him we
live about three blocks south of Chings store at Hauula toward Honohilu were a
block off Kam Highway that’s the highway that circles theIsland. We live at
53-018B MaKao Road.
We had a friend of Marion’s sister from Vancouver, B C she
spent a few days with us, Marion’s sister wrote us adsaid she had a wonderful
time, as it’s more like old Hawaii out here and Waikiki is all modern
especially for the tourist trade and too commercially for a person to get the
real feel of Hawaiian atmosphere.
I made a few trips here in ’21, and 22 & 23 and things
are lots modern now but still life is at a lot slower pace then in the states.
We traded in our old TV this past summer and got a new RCA
deluxe – it sure is OK clear as a bell, except when they have a tropical storm
over o he Island of Maui, from where they relay it. Glad to hear Shirley and
family is O.K. give them our helo and we’ll try to get some gift off this week
for Christ.
We have quite a few orchids in bloom also Hibiscus, roses
also another plant with pinkish lavender flowers that has new flowers on it 365
days a year, surely the finest blooming plant I’ve ever seen by Xmas we’ll have
quite a lot of orchids in bloom, so we’ll have some to show your friend.
I worked at Hawaiian Electric all summer till in Sept, we
installed a new steam trubolectric unit, I was working 10 hrs a day 6 days a
week too darn much for me, so I am going to take it easy till 1st of
year and if there is no work through our union I’m going to draw unemployment
to heck with Killing your calf off, I’ll take it easy, Marion wil write some
too – I was just interrupted by Puki, our mamma Siamesee cat I head her
calling outside so just went out and she had a mouse she had caught chi one
young male tom just 7 mo old oday, he catches rats and mice about every day and
he’ll bring them in to show us and he’ll play with them for quite a spell
before he kills them. I hope you folks had a nice Thanksgiving. We had a small
turkey and finished it off today.
With love from Irv.
Marion will write a few lines. (Note:
no writing from Marin with this letter)
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