One minor
disappointment in the making of this site -- there's not ONE highway named
for the late Don Ho (1930-2007). Only a crummy "street" in Waikiki (really just a private service
road for the Royal Hawaiian complex, where he used to perform -- his shows
later moved to the Waikiki Beachcomber), only about 500 feet long and not even
shown on many Honolulu street maps. Many pork-barreling mainland politicions,
who can't even sing "Tiny Bubbles" to
save their lives, have one or even two freeways named for them. But did Don Ho get a freeway? Nooo!
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In 2002, the governor went out and named all of Hawaii's previously unnamed freeways, for worthy people other than Don Ho. But there remain some other highways suitable for renaming. Take the North-South Road (please!) planned for southwest Oahu -- wouldn't it sound much less stupefyingly boring if it became the Don Ho Parkway? ;-)