We visit famous Waikiki Beach

The next day we all wanted to go to the beach so we got in trucks and went up the coast for some time before we saw the "perfect" beach; we got out and inflated our mattress covers from our bunks; then we would tie the end with a half knot and scoot in about 3" of water - whee! We had so much fun we decided to go back to the same spot and guess what? A storm out at sea produced high winds which decimated the sand on this spot! We had to go on further up to find what we were looking for. Then we made trips past Pearl H., on the right, up to near Pearl City, where the Base Hospital No. 6 (8?) was, where I found out my tennis doubles partner, Howard Higgins, was based, as a Corpsman; past Hickam Housing and past Hickam A.F.B., on the right; on past downtown Honolulu to Waikiki Beach. Further down the beach was the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in pink, where we stopped. The drinkers enjoyed Mai Tai's; I watched Bobby Riggs, great tennis player, in his prime, on the Royal Hawaiian tennis courts ; outside, on the beach, was Caesar Romero, famous movie actor and a Latin heart throb; he's in the Coast Guard. From the Royal Hawaiian I looked down the beach toward Diamond Head and there was only 1 building between the two! (Today it's stacked with everything). In a few days we go to the beach close to EWA, just a short distance from the entrance to Pearl Harbor.