| Sophie's dress was bright red, and the flower pattern blends in with gailliardias growing in Jack's garden in front of home at 2415 Ala Wai Boulevard, Waikiki. The Barretts had two cancaries in 1942- the first was found flying around probably released or escaped from cultivation. It was named "Nice Tweet" but it became ill and was replaced by "Tweetsy-Weetsy" - a gift from Mrs. Distelli, who lived about five houses west on Ala Wai Boulevard and frequently did housecleaning for Sophie and brought native fruits -= mangoes and papayas. This photo was taken by a visiting young sailor or Marine possibly Warren Griffith a native of Brooklyn, New York. ...[ |
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