The Doobie Brothers wrote a new song about Maui, and included Mick Fleetwood, Jake Shimabukuro, and Henry Kapono on this epic video that includes footage before and after the fire. Mick Fleetwood has lived in Maui for decades, and owns the well-known restaurant named Fleetwood’s which was lost in the fire.
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We were there in September ’22, ten months before the fire. So many things gone forever. I hope someday to be able to take another picture of me eating a Dole Whip under the Banyan Tree. So many physical things are gone but both the locals and we visitors need to come to grips with Lahaina Culture being gone forever. That sounds harsh but consider. Old Lahaina would never be allowed to resurrect. The old Vintage European Posters shop wasn’t ADA compliant and their stock would take decades to replace. Many of the places that were compliant would never rebuild as they were. The city county state federal will insist on wider streets and sidewalks. Buried electrical and exterior fire resistant designs will change the entire character. Housing will be rezoned with zero lot lines and other modern “advancements” in urban planning. Roofs will be covered in solar. There will be partial attempts to balance local housing and new demand for part time and shared residents. Kohala Brewery literally melted. I’m sure the new facility won’t have seating next to the pallets of barley. Might as well turn the whole region over to Disney for homogenization.
I don’t dare post this in the Lahaina communities as most have yet to come to grips with unfortunate realities. Snap my fingers? Old Lahaina any day. Here’s hoping the outcome is better and faster than Paradise, CA. Ask me about the Thomas Fire.
Hey Rob, how about the Thomas Fire?
A client reported that the old school anti-tourist Maui locals are out in force. Could have a hand in the how it turns out?
4 year ago while in Maui we ate at Fleetwood’s, walked all of downtown and browsed that vintage poster shop for a couple hours as we have 1/2 dz. posters we bought on trips to Chicago over the years. Sad
December 4, 2017, reported by a nearby resident at 6:26 p.m. north of Santa Paula, near Steckel Park and Thomas Aquinas College. Thus “Thomas Fire.” I live directly south across the valley from the fire path. I’ve go lots of unpublished video of the very earliest hours as the lines rushed east to west with strong Santana (devil) winds. After passing our Conejo Valley, barely crossing the ridge line, the flying embers skipped miles and ignited the eastern foothills of the city of Ventura. This was where the big losses occurred. Clearpoint, Ondulando and Skyline neighborhoods. But I just knew them as Andulano. Most of the 1000+ structures were here.
So 5 years almost.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1024+Scenic+Way+Dr,+Ventura,+CA+93003/@34.2959425,-119.2027286,322m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x80e9b2e96b815cdb:0x62f088925d6085c8!2s1024+Scenic+Way+Dr,+Ventura,+CA+93003!3b1!8m2!3d34.2967661!4d-119.2017915!16s%2Fg%2F11c4cv_h0j!3m5!1s0x80e9b2e96b815cdb:0x62f088925d6085c8!8m2!3d34.2967661!4d-119.2017915!16s%2Fg%2F11c4cv_h0j?entry=ttu
You’d think with all this time and all the settlement money the’d be houses by now. Not.
These things burn more than structures.
Wow – that google sky photo is dated 2023, and it looks like 100s of vacant lots six years later!