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  Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, John Brizdle is an alumnus of the University of Michigan. He arrived in the Islands in 1970 where he has taught school, and been a successful entrepreneur, co-founding E Noa Tours and the Waikiki Trolley. His fascination with history led to the creation of the Interpret Hawai'i program for tour escorts, and, perhaps inadvertantly, to this book. While studying Honolulu's early streetcars to share the history with E Noa employees, he soon realized that the story involved the creation of modern Honolulu and would be of interest far beyond these shores. Fourteen years later, this book is the result. John and his wife Wendy have a son, Ian, and a daughter, Tamara, both in college.  John Brizdle takes the "Be A Motorman" course at the Seashore Trolley Muesum in Kennebunkport Maine.   Author/designer MacKinnon Simpson has been writing about history since 3rd grade in a two-room school in Pottersville, NJ. He is an alumnus of Princeton, "where I quenched my thirst for History and English and beer, not necessarily in that order." Streetcar Days in Honolulu marks his 10th book project, all created on the Macintosh, and is perhaps his all-time favorite, "because of the people we met and the stories of the past which they told. Doing research with John was pure serendipity." Simpson is the father of a daughter, Malia Tanaka, and a son, Alika, and owner of the dumbest dog in Hawai'i. |
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