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TI: Okay. So we're going to start the second, second hour of the interview, Tad. And one of the things I want to go back to was you talked about your parents doing barbershops and hotels. Let's, can we kind of just talk through some of the places that they operated? Like for instance, the barbershop, do you recall where that was located?

TK: The first one I know is 620 Weller Street. I think it's 620.

TI: Okay, and that's about when you were born, too.

TK: That's right.

TI: And then any other barbershops that they had?

TK: Then we went to a corner of Washington and Second Avenue. That was before Second Avenue was cut through there at an angle. It looked a little different. There's a, the fire station is there now, I think, where we used to have the barbershop.

TI: So this is the fire station, and I think of in the Pioneer Square area. Okay, so that's a barbershop there. And how about other places, like the hotels? Where were they located?

TK: There was a Standard Hotel, that was between Yesler and Washington Street. And Second Avenue. Well, it was on Second Avenue, it's kind of changed now because they cut Second Avenue, changed the direction of Second Avenue there. And then, Standard, and then the Tourist Hotel at First and Occidental, Washington and Occidental. There's no building there now, they tore it down, as far as I know.

TI: So would that be in that Occidental Square area? Kind of that place around there?

TK: I don't think it's, it might be Occidental Square, it's on the corner of Washington and Occidental. It's the northeast corner, that's where it was.

TI: Okay, so the Standard Hotel. The Tourist Hotel. What about the other hotels?

TK: Then, what, the Windsor Hotel at Seventh and Virginia.

TI: Okay.

TK: And then I think that's where we evacuated from.

TI: Okay, so that's where you worked when the war broke out.

TK: Yeah.

TI: How about the Wiltshire?

TK: That's the one, yeah. Oh, what did I say?

TI: You said the Windsor.

TK: No, it's the Wiltshire, I'm sorry.

TI: Wiltshire.

TK: I'm glad you mentioned that.

TI: Okay, so that was the one that you had during the war. And where was the Wiltshire located.

TK: Seventh and Virginia.

TI: Oh, Seventh and Virginia.

TK: That's the one.

TI: Okay.

TK: There was no Windsor. The Windsor was a mistake, yeah.

TI: Okay, so Wiltshire. And there's another one. The Oshima? Oshima Hotel?

TK: Oshima, yeah. I can't remember that one.

TI: Was that before the war?

TK: Yeah, way before.

TI: Yeah, those were the ones that I...

TK: Oshima Hotel was, gee, that was the First World War time.

TI: Now do you know why your parents kept moving from like one barbershop to another? From one hotel to another?

TK: I have no idea.

TI: Okay.

TK: Maybe he made money each time, I don't know.

TI: Oh, so did you have a sense that the properties got bigger as he went on?

TK: I don't know really. Usually some people sell their business. They make the, their profit is on the operation, not the building itself. They never owned, we never owned the business, the building in it.

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