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David Romas <ac2942@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi all, Nearly ten years from my first whirl-wind visit to Oahu, my
> second one begins in about 48 hours! Travel writer/photographer Jad
> Daven****t formulated a "Magnum's Hidden Oahu" story idea which was
> commissioned by the Los Angeles Times Magazine and I'll be the sort
> of human subject of it - Oahu is the real topic. L.A. Times and the
> Oahu Visitors Bureau are covering expenses for us to be on the island
> six days. We've known for only a couple weeks that the trip and its
> timing are for real and since it's a too-good-to-be-true type of event
> for me, I've been keeping it under my VMO2 cap as far as postings on
> the various fan sites. Day after tomorrow my wife and I will be in
> the air on our way! We'll be visiting, to document and photograph,
> all or most of the prominent shooting locations for Magnum, P.I. Many
> of them currently are being used for LOST. For now, I don't yet know
> when the resulting feature will run in the L.A. Times Magazine.
> Here's a blast from the past for you, attached below. Aloha,
Excellent Dave! Aloha, and don't forget the Kuilima (Turtle Bay Hilton)!
:-)
>
> - DR
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mag. Mem.
> http://www.magnum-memorabilia.com/magmem_e.htm
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> Hawaii Visit Progress Re****t
> From: David Romas
> Date: Fri, Jan 10 1997 12:00 am
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(David Romas)
> Groups: alt.tv.magnum-pi
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> From: a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Romas)
> To: a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Hawaii Visit Progress Re****t
>
> HI Guys!
>
> Sorrty about all the server noice and text problems! I'm
> in Honolulu right now ((9:30 am Haawwaii time, 2:30 pm EST)
> at the state public library using their public access internet
> terminal to telnet to my Detroit Freenet accounhtt to draft
> this for you to send to my LA Freenet account from where I
> can post it to the newsgroup. Long story short all this
> hopping and converting creates problems for the message.
>
> I got into Hono. at 4:30 Wed. and hooked up with my
> friend who is putting me up. We went to the hotel where
> my conference has been happening so I could register and
> we smoozed at the reception.
>
> Got a good nights sleep (needed it after being ip
> (oops, 'up') for about 32 hours straight. I had been so
> 'keyed up" for the trip I couldn't sleep back home! Got
> up early yesterday and went to the conference at 8:00.
> Attended a few paper presentations until the lunch break
> at 11:00. Then I grapbbed camera dand tri-pob and hit
> the road. Walked two blocks to Waikiki and turned
> Diamond Head (east) and started traveling and shooting
> Magnum filming sites. Got great pics of Kapiolani
> War Memorail (the water stadium from "Death & Taxes" and
> others). Snapped St. Augustine's church from above ja
> just as it was filmed in "Infinity & Jelly Doughnuts".
> Stopped at the Outrigger Canoe Clunb where Tom's a
> member and had a metting with the General Managert -
> a rieal nice guy who gabve me lots of info. on Tom's
> activities with this very exclusive club. He let me
> shoot their walled-in volleyball courts (from
> "Adelaide" and tother episodes) and sent me next door
> to the Elks Club whichh is the place used as the
> "King Kamehameha Club" for approx. the frst season of
> MPI. I met the General Managert over there who also
> was very nice and very interested in my activities
> as a "way gone" (as he put it) Magnum fan. He gave
> me "carte blanche" - the run of the club to take all
> the shots I waneted of all angles used in MPI
> upstairs and downstairs. He was totally cool! Even
> wanted to come around with me arrangeing the furniture
> as it was in MPI episodes!
>
> Left and hopped over to the Waikiki Shell outdoor
> auditorium which is in the center of the Kapiolani
> Park. G It was standing open so I just strolled in.
> Nobody there so I whent all around inside and tooks
> tons of snaps (the shell is in "The Sixth Positions").
>
> By then it was time to haead back to the
> Prince Kuhio hotel to get ready for my own paper
> presentation on MPI. I had a table on which I spreakd
> out lots of different MPI documents - both related
> to my academic work with the series and Magnum
> Memorabilia fan organization info. There was a TV
> news crew there covering the convention and they
> filmed my stuff for the evening news! I think it was
> Hono's "Fox 2 Neews" but I didn't get a chance to see
> the re****t on TV lastnight. :-( Had a good
> turnout for my presentation. Showed my video clips
> (I had invited Tom by buy he didn't show. :-( )
>
> In the evening whent out to Pearl City to miit
> with and old bfriend who lives in Navy housing.
> He's a Lt JG on a Frigate stationed at Pearl. Got
> to meet his wife and son for the first time. The
> fed me supper. :-) About 10PM left to head back to Hono.
> and stopped by the Aloha Towaer which is a popular
> night spot these days with several waterfront bars.
> Had a beer at the Gordon Birsch microbrewery (one
> of the few "non-Magnum " places I had hopped to see).
> God (oops, "got") back to my friends house about mid-
> night and crashed. This am I have started at the
> downtown area on foot at 8:30. So far this am have
> stopped for pictures at the State Capitol bldg.,
> Iolani Palace, the King Kam statue. Then I
> realized I was across the street from the library so
> stopped in to see if they had public internet
> access. And here I am!
>
> just a block or two from here is Parke
> Memorial Cha;pel ("Michelle's church") were I
> have arranged with the manager to come in and take
> plenty of shots. Also will check out the attached
> St. Andrew's Cathedral which is where Thomas h got
> "married" in the ep. "I Do?" Also will drop down
> to the Falls of Clyde ****p by Aloha Tower , as it's
> the ****p on which Thomas met Buck Greene in
> "Memories ARe Forever."
>
> While writing this paragraph I just got a call
> from the former head set designedr from MPI who is
> soon on his way downtown to pick me up and take me
> over to the Diamond Head film studio where all
> the permanent interior sets for MPI were filmed
> and are stored (the Guest House, the inside of
> Higins study, etc.) He wantes to give me the
> class-A tour and , under the table, he says he
> may sneak some of the props or sets (not much
> of it as this is against the rules) out for me
> to take back to the archive at Magnum
> Memorabilia.
>
> Later today perhaps Waimanalo where is the
> "Robin's Nest" estate and the per (sorry, pier)
> used as the Island Hoppers home-base. And
> maybe Makapu'u Point lookout if I can get in.
> (Used at the close of "Infinity").
>
> saturday: Pearl Harbor tour with my Navy
> buddy - no helo ride, their choppers are all
> in right now for routine mainenance, but he
> says if they weren't I would've gotten a
> chopper hop around the Island. :-| Oh, well,
> I guess I ought to leave *somethiing* for
> the next trip. :-) Later maybe up the
> Pali Hwy to the lookout. Then it'll be time
> to get back on the plane for Detroit. :-(
>
> I gotta go. I'm nearing the end of my
> time slot on this computer. Once again,
> sorry about the text errors - as I'm sure
> there will be many by the time this message
> gets to the newsgroup. I'll have a more
> detailed re****t after I get back to Detroit.
>
> Aloha!
>
> David Romas
> Magnum Memorabilia
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