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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Mary Haruko (Ohashi) Yamato (ddr-densho-442-162)
Photograph of Mary Haruko (Ohashi) Yamato standing in the doorway of the Ohashi family store.
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Robert and Hope Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-197)
Photograph of Robert "Bob" Teruo Ohashi (left) and Hope Nobuko Ohashi (right) sitting on a step together the Ohashi family store.
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Child outside store (ddr-densho-442-213)
Photograph of an unidentified child outside the Ohashi family store. Possibly, Robert "Bob" Teruo Ohashi
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Wakaichi Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-152)
Portrait of Wakaichi "Buck" Ohashi outside the Ohashi family store.
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Group of four outside Ohashi family store (ddr-densho-442-77)
Photograph of four people outside the Ohashi store. From left to right: unidentified, Wakaichi "Buck" Ohashi, Tomo Ruth Ohashi, and Charlie Tatsuda.
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Wakaichi and Komatsu (Saito) Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-156)
Photograph of Wakaichi "Buck" Ohashi (left) and Komatsu (Saito) Ohashi (right) standing behind the counter of their store. Written along the bottom is "Mom & Pop" in black ink.
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Robert and Neil Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-165)
Photograph of Robert "Bob" Teruo Ohashi (left) and Neil Jiro Ohashi (right) standing outside a doorway.
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Mary (Ohashi) Yamato and Komatsu (Saito) Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-212)
Photograph of Mary Haruko (Ohashi) Yamato standing outside the Ohashi family store with an unidentified man holding a camera. In the background standing in the doorway is Komatsu (Saito) Ohashi. Same as ddr-densho-442-85.
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Tomo Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-226)
Photograph of Ruth Tomo Ohashi standing outside the Ohashi Family store. Written along the bottom of the photograph is "Tomo" ink black ink.
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Komatsu and Robert Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-206)
Photograph of Komatsu (Saito) Ohashi (right) standing outside the Ohashi store with her son Robert Teruo Ohashi (left) playing in a toy car.
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Mary Haruko Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-83)
Photograph of Mary Haruko (Ohashi) Yamato leaning against the open door frame to the Ohashi family store.
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Shika Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-243)
Photograph of Shika Ohashi standing outside the Ohashi family store
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Baby in baby walker (ddr-densho-442-195)
Photograph of an unidentified child using a baby walker the Ohashi family store.
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Mary Haruko Ohashi (ddr-densho-442-85)
Photograph of Mary Haruko (Ohashi) Yamato standing outside the Ohashi family store with an unidentified man holding a camera. Standing in the doorway behind the couple is Komatsu (Saito) Ohashi. Same as ddr-densho-442-212
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Child (ddr-densho-442-194)
Photograph of an unidentified child posing outside the Ohashi family store.
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Child in kimono (ddr-densho-442-163)
Photograph of an unidentified child dressed in a kimono standing in a doorway of the Ohashi family store.
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 55, No. 7 (August 17, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-33)
Selected article titles: "Evacuation Claims Clarification" (p.1), "Kennedy Asked to Direct IRS Defer Action on Tax Claim" (p.1), "Religious Freedom for U.S. Buddhists" (p.2), "Nisei Rebuffed 20 Years Ago by Bakers Union Voted Head of Retail Bakers Group" (p.4).
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 55, No. 21 (November 23, 1962) (ddr-pc-34-47)
Selected article titles: "Trade Unions Join White House Push to Eliminate Discrimination in Jobs" (p.1-2), "President's Comm. On Equal Employment Opportunity Reviews 19-Month Operation" (p.1), "Japanese History Project on Threshold of $200,000" (p.1), "Small Business Adm. Charters First Nisei Corporation for Operation in Southland" (p.3).
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 103, No. 19 (November 7, 1986) (ddr-pc-58-44)
Edition contains Mail Order Supplement, A-D, between pages 4 and 5. Selected article titles: "'Star Trek' Star Honored by Hollywood" (pp. 1, 8), "L.A.'s Nikkei-Oriented Movie Theater Closes Doors" (pp. 1, 5), "Mineta Recalls Impact of 99th Congress on JAs" (p. 2), and "Take Risks, Help Others, Matsui Tells Students" (pp. 6-7).
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G. S. Fukumoto Company Storefront (ddr-sbbt-1-9)
A man stands behind the counter at the G. S. Fukumoto Company: Watchmakers and Jewelers.