Small business

Japanese American businesses, such as groceries, fish shops, laundries, barbershops, public bathhouses, restaurants, drugstores, and dry goods stores, sprang up in communities along the West Coast. Women and children were vitally important to these "mom and pop" enterprises, as their free labor allowed the family to survive and even prosper during lean times.

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vh Mii Tai Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-186-4)

Living above family's laundry business

This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-186-4/

vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-48-10)

Getting started in dress design, apprenticing and opening own shop

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-48-10/

vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-48-11)

Getting started in dress design, apprenticing and opening own shop: description of clientele

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-48-8)

Choosing a career, "have a trade in your hand"; getting started in dress design, apprenticing and opening own shop

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-48-8/

vh Mary Hirata Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-22-9)

Running a family-owned business in prewar Seattle; memories of things left behind during mass removal

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-22-9/

vh Dale Minami Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-141-2)

Father's life in Gardena, California: gardening and running a sporting goods store in Little Tokyo

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-141-2/

vh Yae Wada Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-476-1)

Father's family background: establishing a laundry business

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-1/

vh Yae Wada Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-476-2)

Losing mother at an early age and opening a beauty shop

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-2/

vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-72-21)

Husband's job running a greenhouse

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vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-72-20)

Seattle's prewar greenhouse operators

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vh Frank S. Fujii Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-8-3)

Helping to run the family-owned business, Fujii's Tavern

This interview was conducted over two days due to electrical problems. The majority of the interview was completed on the second day, September 5.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-8-3/

vh Esther Takei Nishio Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-370-3)

Father's work running carnival concessions

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-370-3/