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Title: Takashi Hori - Yoshito Mizuta - Elmer Tazuma Interview
Narrators: Takashi Hori, Yoshito Mizuta, Elmer Tazuma
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: June 8, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-htakashi_g-01-0014

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DG: Is that the way it was when you were in the hotel too? You got to know the residents?

YM: Oh, yeah, a lot of families. Lots of families, Japanese families.

ET: That's before the war. Well, even our place, all these Japanese hotels they didn't -- families didn't rent apartments or anything, they rented one or two hotel rooms and lived there.

YM: Well, there was renting a lot of shops, empty shops, and families, huh?

ET: That's right.

YM: Main Street, King Street, quite of few of them. Under Nippon Kan too, Japanese families used to live in those shops.

TH: Well, all these grocery stores and things. They operate in the front and live in the back or live upstairs or something like that or there is dye works or groceries, laundries.

DG: So then right around on Main Street mainly and your Panama was on 6th.

TH: 6th and Main, yes.

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