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DG: Now, the laundry, you said, you sent out to where?

TH: Like the hotel laundry, yes. We used to send it out. Like we sent it out to Grand Union. I think that's where -- Grand Union did the majority of the Japanese establishments.

DG: Where were they?

TH: They were located on -- what is it, Washington?

YM: Washington between 12th and 14th on the south side.

ET: Where that Rainier Apartments.

TH: No, no.

ET: Right next to it.

TH: No, that's one block over. Rainier Apartments is on Main Street.

ET: Yeah, Grand Union.

TH: No, no.

ET: Oh, Main.

TH: Was it Main? No.

YM: Yeah, Main Street between 12th and 14th.

ET: I lived around there.

DG: But there was just one laundry? There wasn't more than that?

ET: How 'bout Shiro?

TH: Yeah, Star Laundry on Jackson Street, Shiro Iwana. (Narr. note: the Iwana family)

YM: Yeah, between 12th and 14th.

TH: And then Arctic Laundry Kadoshimas had on 8th Avenue.

YM: But the Grand Union used to take in the rooms private laundry if they want to send it out.

ET: Even H.T. Kubota used to haul the laundry up to...

TH: No, he worked at Grand Union.

ET: Oh yeah, Grand Union.

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