Mike (Mikaele) Foley shares several stories of how his retail team once almost burned down a PCC gift shop in the 1990s, and another when his stage crew almost blew up the Hale Aloha in the late 1960s. What? Click on the picture to keep reading.
“Colonel” Vern Hardisty was the Cultural Center general manager from 1969–’75.
Renée Ahuna Cabrinha practically grew up at the Polynesian Cultural Center as a young girl. He husband and children have also worked at the PCC.
Tua Hunt’s mother and father were both working at the Center when she was born . . . and she soon joined them, later returning as a student employee.
Haunani Kaanaanā attended Church College of Hawaii in 1956, but didn’t join the PCC until 10 years later. She soon become one of the Center’s first female managers.
