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Hawaii Five-O: See How She Runs (1977)
Filmed at my house
I used to live in the grand old house this episode was filmed at. We called it the Lighthouse and a wonderful old man we called Uncle Bob had the lease and rented out the rooms to University of Hawaii students that were Christians. It was also well known in the area for his Friday night film nights, where he literally got out a big movie projector and showed actual films from gospel film companies, then afterwords there would be a discussion and pupus. What a long way from our DVD's today! Originally it was one of the only houses on Mt. Tantalus overlooking Waikiki, built by the descendants of one of the Missionary families - possibly the Beckwith family, because it was on Beckwith St. Boy, it had an amazing view of Waikiki. You could sit out on the front lawn and just see this great view of all of Waikiki with the blue Pacific and off to the left Diamond Head. I feel privileged to have lived there.
If you watched the episode you can see it's basically a small mansion with the wonderful drive up entrance, I think that's called a port cochere, or maybe I'm confused on that one. But the inside was huge with multiple floors and lots of little cubby holes. My bedroom was actually the room they threw that guy out the window of.
This was from the 1977 season, and I lived there in 1983, so I didn't actually see the filming - too bad! Sadly, when I visited Hawaii in 2003 the house had been torn down - it looked like it had been fairly recent. It was already very old and falling apart twenty years earlier when I lived there, so I'm sure whoever ended up owning it just decided it wasn't worth renovating and tore it down. I think they might have wanted to divide up the large very valuable property and build a few homes. I guess the next time I visit I'll see what they did with it.
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