Last shipment of Sugar from Hawaii.

[1Kflyerguy]

The last sugar from Hawaii has arrived in Califonia for processing...

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/19/crockett-last-hawaiian-sugar-ship-bids-historic-farewell/

Thats end of an era, i still remember the TV commericals from C&H in 70s showing the cane fields..

 

[Beaglemom3]

Here are a few of those commercials:

So sad. The end of an era.

I lived in Waipahu in the 70s across from the cane fields. In old Waipahu town, the rusty refinery was still in operation (somewhat) and the odor was overpowering at times. I was told that the mill would crush the cane and then it was sent back to California (C & H Sugar) for processing. I'm not sure if that was correct or not.

1994 Article: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...289_1_sugar-mill-sugar-planters-sugar-workers

When the fields were burnt at harvest time, the cane spiders came calling. I moved back to Honolulu after two harvests.

 

[slip]

Thanks for posting, brought back a lot of memories.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

For sixteen years I lived four blocks from the refinery in Crockett, CA. For most of the youth of my children we were there; the three oldest still think of Crockett as their home and not Seattle.

During our first vacation to Hawaii (Kauai) in 1999, they were still shipping raw sugar to the Crockett refinery. It was interesting to see the same ships off-loading near our house being loaded at the terminal in Nawiliwili.

 

[Passepartout]

Maybe they'll start bring cane from Cuba (ducking). Just kidding. And I'll belay comments about Idaho's GREAT, White Satin beet sugar. My understanding is that cane sugar is very labor intensive and can no longer economically compete.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Maybe they'll start bring cane from Cuba (ducking). Just kidding. And I'll belay comments about Idaho's GREAT, White Satin beet sugar. My understanding is that cane sugar is very labor intensive and can no longer economically compete.

Cane in Kauai is just more prosaic than beets in Burley.