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DG: So was everybody in that area was Japanese then, all the stores and all the hotels.

TH: The majority of the stores were Japanese.

YM: Lots of Filipinos though. (Narr. note: There were restaurants, a pool hall and barber shop on 6th Avenue between Jackson and King Sts.)

TH: No. Filipinos after the '30s.

YM: '30s?

TH: No, late '20s into the '30s.

YM: They all... most of them went to Alaska summertime (and then to California for the winter to work on the farms mostly).

ET: Yeah, every store was practically Japanese on Jackson Street, huh?

YM: Yeah. (It was some Little Tokyo.)

TH: And then with the influx of the Filipinos in the late '20s that's when the health department -- I noticed reading the old minutes -- the health department start getting strict because they were crowding maybe three or four fellows would be staying in one room when they were supposed to be occupied by one or two. Yeah, you had that problem, I'm sure.

YM: Oh, yeah, (couldn't stop that.)

ET: Yeah. We went looking for hotel after we came back from camp, and we visited one on First Avenue and this lady says one room she had thirteen beds, $1 a bed. That was good money.

TH: What place was this?

ET: It was close to where Tets had... around on Seneca.

TH: Oh, up there.

ET: I forgot the name.

TH: Up that way. Oh Downtown.

ET: Downtown.

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