Rowe (DD 564) - Naval Cruise Book

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a warm Hawauan ' ' ' ...AND 16 MAY d HAWAII But the welcome we found in Hawaii made it easy to say goodbye to California . . . we watched the hula girls . . . some even tried surfboard riding . . . and althoughwe learnedafew Hawaiian , words . . . it seemed awfully difficult to say . . . Aloha . . . i s 2 I n P F I i E welcome I I 2 , ? , l H 11 4,5 . Q N , , . oeaufiflll, 10I191Y beaches ' ' ' another kind of welcome 5 a

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uilwwn looked . . .HELLO A IIIEGII For many of us it was also our first introduction to California . . . for others a joyous but brief home- coming . . . sightseersfanned outtoLosAngeles, San Francisco, Long Beach, La Jolla. . . and Short- Snorters even visited Tiajuana, Mexico . . . no doubt to add another country's currency to their small but growing list . . . and almost everyone was agreed that 4 - 10 May was woefully short for introduction or homecoming in California. . . We ' - - and downtown M - , s s S311 . N Dle the last continental U. S. beach for a long time Q u

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at the Pali . . . we took pictures . . . 1 Xf' X some 111111115 7 4 I Xl. 'W' ffl! as ' s' mf A Y and less lonely beaches 1 the B10w-H01e