In article >, pure kona > wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:40:57 GMT, (Phred)
>wrote:
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>Aloha Phred, fellow sugar plantation person
--- and we must be
>becoming a rarer breed. Not many sugar plantations left in Hawaii- 2,
>I think.
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G'day Cea,
I must admit I had the impression from somewhere that they were all
gone -- or at least as far as serious *sugar* production is concerned
(ISTR one on Oahu had stayed open as some sort of tourist trap).
So I'm happy to be corrected on this point.
When I was over there briefly about 30 years ago, we spent a day over
on the Big Isle looking at the industry there -- very different to the
way we were doing things here at that time! Unfortunately, in my
ignorance I had succumbed to the _National Geographic_ colour
tradition and was using Ektachrome slide film during my trip to the US
and other places over that way, and my slides from that time are
pretty much stuffed now. (Unlike my Kodachromes which are still
pretty good from even 45 years ago -- and, fortunately, I switched
back to KR135-36P once back home from that trip. :-)
Cheers, Phred.
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LID