The Eighth Part of the Village (3.4)

[J.J. Walters]

Hey, RC, this might make for a nice addition to the Filming Location Guide (if you decide to release another version).

The pool hall scene with Magnum, T.C., Rick, Mr. Harms (Donald Gibb) and Mr. Jansen (Dick Durock) was filmed on location at the Cebu Pool Hall (Hotel and River Streets), which appears to have been a rather notorious Filipina hangout for many years. The hall was part of the H.Y. Wong building (built in 1906), which at the time of this episode was one of the last remaining wood-flame structures in the downtown Honolulu area. The building was razed in 1992 and replaced with low-income housing.

*Interesting article about the building*

[Braddah Kimo]

Magnum's v/o sez: "problem with asking people on the docks if they dont know ya, they wont tell ya." This is magnum's problem all thru the show, week after week. As with the earlier scene with da braddah with da forklift. he's acting all impatient and all haole. If he was more braddah braddah, he would get what he needs. there is a way of communication here unknown to outsiders. it's ho'omalimali. Magnum never learns it.

[Braddah Kimo]

"and the rare shot on the Estate on the balcony)" Not balcony. It's a lanai.

[Pahonu]

"and the rare shot on the Estate on the balcony)" Not balcony. It's a lanai.

Not trying to quibble Kimo, but as the home is Spanish Colonial Revival in style, it would architecturally be termed balcon corrido which is a balcony used as a corridor or hall. All the upstairs rooms open onto this space and there are no internal hallways whatsoever. This is actually quite unusual even for that style as it requires a temperate enough climate to be practical, which you guys definitely enjoy. There is also a style-specific term for the side entrance downstairs that leads to the arcade and the front door. It is termed zaguan, which has no easy translation into English. It is basically an entrance, but not into the house proper. Rather, the doors might lead to a courtyard, loggia, patio, or as in this case the arcade, then onto the front door.

[Braddah Kimo]

architecturally correct. however as it is in Hawaii, it would be a lanai. has been referred to as that since the 30's. Just like ya don't call them flippity flops or whatever they say in the conus. They are rubbah slippahz here. Local culture, Context and all that.

[Braddah Kimo]

also, good info, there, Pahonu. I love architecture and like learning about it. Spanish/Mission revival, et. al., is one of my favorites styles.

[Braddah Kimo]

"All the upstairs rooms open onto this space and there are no internal hallways whatsoever" almost not surprisingly enough, a characteristic also glimpsed at in portions of the Cooke estate/King Kamehameha Club structures...

[Pahonu]

Hey Kimo,

Glad to hear you enjoy architecture as well. My point was simply that certain terms are applied to specific architectural styles almost regardless of their location. For example, the various Victorian styles used the word hall to describe a large central room around which the more formal public spaces such as parlors, libraries, etc... would connect. This was true from San Francisco to Boston. The term passage would have been used for what we call a hall. Time also plays a major part in the use of this terminology as well. When the Anderson Estate was built in the 30's, for example the architect might have labeled the primary living space as a drawing room rather than living room, and the term family room was unheard of then.

I'm not surprised at all that other homes have open hallways like this. You guys certainly have the weather for it. Here in SoCal today it was 75 degrees and beautifully clear, but I wouldn't want to be roaming around an open hall tonight when it drops to 42!

Speaking of architects, did you ever confirm Pahonu's? Would the Hall of Records have this information or even blueprints?

[J.J. Walters]

Would the Hall of Records have this information or even blueprints?

Yeah, Kimo, can you pay Ms. Jones a visit when you have the time? You'll probably have to wait in line and she will more than likely be on the phone with her husband Ray.

[Seaver41]

very nice episode.........enjoyed watching it again all these years later. Not that you couldn't figure the sister was up to something, but the dead giveaway was in guest house where she just cleaned the place and went out of her way to distract/entice Thomas........but then there was that cliche' tactic of focusing in on her expression once Thomas left her..........just like in the Football episode, they made it obvious who the crazed fan would be. This was a common issue of that era of television. Goes hand in hand with the opening credits listing the big guest star of the week that gives away who will be the focal point of the episode.

[Croix de Lorraine]

In the beginning of the episode, when the girl gets out of the crate, Magnum says: "OK, son". So he's supposed to be a PI (and a red-blooded heterosexual man) and he can't tell a girl from a boy?

[Waterbug Blue]

This was the 80s - things were different back then ...
Men were men (BUT they might be wearing pink), AND
Boys sang like girls (Communards/Never can say goodbye), whereas
Girls cold sing like male voices (Tanita Tikaram/Twist in my sobriety)...

So as you can see, it wasn't all THAT easy

[akela]

An excellent episode -- watched it last night again. My question is -- how were Mioshi and her two hired goons able to stay on the Estate for long with the lads on the watch? This is not something I would have wanted to try. Unless they hid in one of the guest rooms upstairs?

[Netsrak]

Filming location: The apartment building managed by Mrs. Cheever is in Waikiki on the southern corner of Ala Wai Boulevard and Pau Street. The apartment Magnum breaks into is on the Diamond Head side of the building, facing Ala Wai. (From inside the apartment, you can see the lights over the ballfields across the Ala Wai Canal, and you can also see the McCully Street Bridge out the window behind Magnum & TC.)

Look closely in the establishing shot of this location-- 19:14 on the DVD-- and you'll see the Island Hoppers van being driven the wrong way down one-way Pau Street!

[marlboro]

I can see that I'm in the minority on this one, but I didn't care for this episode. The plot was fine, but there just seemed to be something "off" about everything else. Tom Selleck played the comedy parts a little too "big" if that makes any sense. Magnum came off looking pretty bad in several scenes in this one. I think the fortune cookie scenes were pretty silly and I think Magnum's scenes with "Asani" early in the episode made him look like a bit of a jerk. He just seemed to be lacking that Magnum charm that glosses over his shortcomings; he made me look at him the same way as Higgins usually does.