John Olszowka

With a 2nd Covid shot on April 7, 2021 there is hope. 1st time grandparents (a baby girl in Montana ye-ha) Tourism is slowly coming back to da Islands......we need those tourist dollars

Posted on: Sep 30, 2020 at 4:34 PM

Kudos for all you do Barb...we continue to shelter in place here in Hawaii. Lucky we redid the interior last Fall (down sized and decluttered). Anita continues to work from the kitchen table and has only been to her DMBA (Laie Shopping Center) office once since March 2020.

Her company is 50 years old today so she hopes to win the “golden ticket” til then, be safe, vote, and may your future be as bright as your faith.

With sadness, my mother of 94 years young passed away Sunday March 1, 2020 at Kaiser Medical Center Oakland CA. My sister Geraldine witnessed her passed in a full body moon suit (virus scare) 50% Hawaiian blood.

Produced a record album called Estherella Sings back in the 60's... now it's on You Tube......track #6 Hawaiian Wedding Song....check it out.

Posted on: Oct 24, 2019 at 5:40 PM

So.......Oct 23, 2019, I turned 69....I refuse to believe it.....though after 49 years of safe driving I had a fender bender last week in Hawaii....

4 weeks ago, visited Utah, Billings Montana (our son's new house, too cold for Anita) then Las Vegas for her medical conference........I did a lucky pull on the $5.00 slots at the Bellagio where we were staying for all of you....but nothing came out. I stamped my feet and shook my head.

Saturday Oct 12, 2019 we got to the Vegas departure Delta gate much to early so we played the Wheel of Fortune slots.....as a Mormon we are told not to gamble.....if I win it's entertainment, if I lose....it's therapy..........I broke even

Anyway, have a great day and a better tomorrow because the best is yet to come.

We were classmates in Beach School (I think he came in 5th grade?), he lived right across from the school so he was never late......tall guy with a little stutter, deep sunked eyes, his sister got a Ford Mustang when they first came out (1964?)....with an Italian background, his mom also worried about him....I can't remember his dad.

After high school he worked in a Government print shop. His mail order bride was from the Phillipines and he came to Hawaii to pick her up, I think he had a daughter.......(7/30/2019) I'll have to wait til I get to the other side and hear the rest of the story and see if my recollections are spot on?

When I saw Scoop's black n' white picture on the slide show at the 50th reunion I remembered his singing and acting in our High School Musical "Guy's and Doll's"

Didn't he have something to do with getting 911 up and running?

Posted on: Oct 23, 2018 at 4:34 AM

I remember one time we had a school dance and the computer was to pick the couples.......Anne was so upset that we were matched, she stayed in the bathroom the whole time....yikes.

I too was envious of Mark's Chevy Nomad......(I thought it was Red and White), I even rode in it once and I felt like a BMOC (big man on campus) since I ran in different circles....in 1968 we had a broken down silver 1957 2 door Chevy Belair that sat in our open 3 car garage at 1671 Grand Ave.

My fantasy was to have the Chey running and challenge Mark to a race on Warren Freeway (Rt 13) from Montclair to the Mormon Temple.

Frankly, I was shocked of how many of our classmates have passed away.........I thought we were all like Peter Pan, never to grow up..........or we'd all live to 100 and a day (a day to get ready).....

on another note, after attending a funeral in ConcordI I slipped into Piedmont Saturday Sept 1, 2018 and marveled at my old neighborhood....I left in 1972 to Hawaii and never looked back.

Now? No Social Media, my e-mail got hacked and I only have a flip phone.......snail mail to P.O. Box 14, Laie HI 9676 works...

So I circle back around to Mark and say he was very kind to me since I was a social nerd.

See you all on Sept 29.......I look more and more like Woody Allen everyday.

I bought my plane ticket too soon for our reunion ($550 then vs $325/RT now) in September 2018.....sorry I'll miss the Sunday picnic.

If you are visiting Oahu's North Shore or the Polynesian Cultural Center call me up 808-561-1645.....let's share some coconut water and talk story.