"PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NEIGHBORHOOD"

EACH HIGHLY INFORMATIVE EXCURSION is escorted personally by “Uncle Jack” Christensen who resided in this neighborhood during the decade of the 1970s when Barack Obama lived here, an area familiar to your guide since the mid-1950s. It’s a retrospective glimpse into the “Honolulu years” of Obama.

THE 90-MINUTE TOUR originated in October, 2008 at the height of the Presidential Campaign and continues to be conducted privately as the sole “on the spot” review of sites connected with the Honolulu residency of the most famous person born in Hawai’i who became our Nation’s 44th Commander In Chief.

ACCURATE BACKGROUND FACTS are narrated chronologically at certain sites in the Punahou and Pawa’a and Makiki districts which formed the Hawai’i nei (immediate limited environment) of “Barry” Obama, as he was known in his teen-age years.

SEE THE HOSPITAL where Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. came into the world on August 4, 1961 (exact structure demolished 2016) and the apartment building where he stayed with his maternal grandparents during much of the time he attend Punahou School. A short block away from its beautiful campus there’s a smaller apartment unit where “Barry” lived for three years with his mother and half sister, Maya, who is ten years younger. Our outing also goes past a small Baskin-Robbins store where Obama worked part-time, and we pause beside outdoor basketball courts at Washington Public School where he sometimes practiced his favorite sport.

OF COURSE many features of the area have changed since young “Barry” departed in 1979 to pursue his higher education and amazing career. However, much remains the same as when it was the hometown of the now internationally known personage and recipient of Sweden’s Nobel Prize who is often welcomed as “global royalty” wherever he travels — in recognition of his many personal achievements.