Interestingly, some people remembered a cute, multisided bandstand and others remembered a four-sided stage with a roof.
It was remembered as being a meeting place for union members in the later years. Other old timers remembered it as a “gathering place” for members of different plantation camps to visit and share dances and music. He also recalled the Royal Hawaiian Band performing there and music festivals like the May Day program. In an article from the Star-Bulletin in 2002, Waialua resident, George Tanabe, was quoted as saying the “Waialua bandstand means peanuts, soda pop and 10-cent hot dogs at the band concerts and boxing matches during the 1920’s and 1930’s.” Another Waialua resident, Jacob Ng, reported, in the same Star-Bulletin article, remembering the bandstand being used as a stage for Christmas plays sponsored by the Waialua Sugar Mill. Some remembered it as being the center of activity for the sugar mill community. Various members of the community, talking story at the annual Waialua Library’s “Heritage Days” in 1997, reminiced about an old bandstand that used to sit between two banyan trees in the park across the street from the library.
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