Waikiki was unbelievable during the 1950s. There was virtually nobody there, only the rich people that came in from California. We had it all to ourselves.

Buffalo was my hero when I was growing up in Waikiki. It was kind of cool to be inducted with him into the Walk of Fame.

It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now ---- it's all surfing and it's all fun.

Back then, there weren't a lot of homes around and it was a short hitchhike to the beach at Newport. I was back in the water all the time.

The hardest part is, it didn't have to be this way. If people had evacuated -- of course, where are they going to evacuate to? But other people did evacuate. Everybody that died here was needless. It's just the senselessness of it all.

It's unexpected revenue, because people are just doing what they were always doing. It's not like a whole new market opened up. There's no behavioral change. It's just more money.