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take the carts beyond security, I would be right there to take the carts away for them,” he explains. “Four or five bucks later, I now had enough mon- ey to go to Fun Factory!”
believes “in doing what’s right,” but he also receives “immense joy in helping others.”
grumbling about my child- hood,” he adds.
But while Gangloff was busy learning how to earn cash, he was also being ex- posed to the cruel realities of living in some of the roughest neighborhoods on O‘ahu.
“People might ask why I do so much when I was treated that way. The fact of the mat- ter is I see myself standing up for the underdog, for the person who cannot defend himself,” Gangloff explains. “WhenIdowhatIdo,Ibe- lieve I’ m just doing what I really felt other people should have done to me. I’ m being the opposite person of how I was treated.
angloff may have inherited his work ethic from his step-
As he recalls, “I was bul- lied constantly because of my white-color skin. When I was a freshman at Farrington, I would be playing basketball and somebody would do a layup and I would say, ‘Nice shot.’ And the guy would come over and punch me in the face.”
In recalling the weeks leading up to the 2020 light show, he remembers lying in bed with her one morning and wondering if she would be willing to make a sizeable sacrifice. At the time, the cou- ple had saved a half-million dollars to buy a home. Know- ing that the show would be in jeopardy if he wasn’t able to
The Nakaoka ‘ohana — mom Darcie and sons Ryce and Ayce — enjoy their ride through one of the show’s lighted tunnels. PHOTO COURTESY ARYN NAKAOKA
money back — I’ m sure we will,’ ” remembers Gangloff. “And without hesitation, she said, ‘Yeah, hon. Go ahead. Let’s do it’ — and we literal- ly stopped looking at homes right after that.”
Despite his share of pain- ful and unjust experiences, Gangloff refused to let them poison his view of humani- ty. A graduate of Farrington High School, he returned to his alma mater in recent years after he was asked to renovate a pair of its classrooms. He says the projects cost him about $100,000 out of his own pocket, but the money and time spent were well worth it because he not only
“I said, ‘Eh, hon, I was wondering if I could buy some things for the show with our savings? We’ll get our
“I spent it on Christmas lights,” he confesses.
“But make no mistake of it, there were people that were there for me along the way; there were plenty of people who made a huge difference and did help me, so I’m not
purchase a key item, Gangl- off decided to ask his wife the unthinkable.
So what exactly did he buy with the money he and his wife had saved for a home?
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