Sunday, May 23, 2010

VJ Day, August 14, 1945

Photographer buddy Shun Wah sent me a link to this amazing video which was taken along Kalakaua Avenue when the news broke that the Japanese had surrendered in 1945:


VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

6 comments:

K and S said...

awesome video!

Betty Townsend said...

Wow! What a video! I was 3 years old.

Les said...

WOW...can you imagine if we were around to photograph that?? That would've been sooo neat!

jalna said...

Kat, unreal yeah!

Betty, I keep watching it, looking at the background.

Les, isn't the quality of the images amaaaazing!

MJC said...

Thanks for sharing! I love looking at old pictures to see the people and the background, this was awesome.

jalna said...

I love old pictures too, MJC.