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Title: Seichi Hayashida Interview
Narrator: Seichi Hayashida
Interviewers: Alice Ito (primary), Sheri Nakashima (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: August 21, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-hseichi-01-0039

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SN: Okay, I guess the last question I have is, you know, you were talking about -- this is back into Auburn again, I mean, not to Auburn, but to Bellevue -- you were talking about that plant that the Nikkei farmers started. And you had a white plant manager?

SH: Yes.

SN: I found that to be interesting. How come, not a Nikkei, a Japanese American plant manager? I was just curious.

SH: Well, he was knowledgeable, more than, in that line. Eventually, though, we changed. But at the start, the first four or five years. And everybody knew him.

SN: Okay. So it was just because of his skill level.

SH: Yeah. He was there before. And so, when we came back, there was no reason to change him.

SN: Thank you very much. [Laughs]

SH: Okay. You know that shed is still there? It was the last time I was in Bellevue.

AI: Where is it?

SH: Bellevue Vegetable Growers Association shed. As you cross the tracks there, headed towards Redmond, it's on the left-hand side, on the tracks. It was there, oh, the last time I was there. I haven't been to Bellevue this trip. But I was surprised that it was there so long. Okay.

AI: Thank you.

SN: Thank you so much.

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