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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-01-0046

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DG: How long did you run the bath?

TH: I beg your pardon?

DG: How long did you run the ofuro?

TH: No, I didn't run the ofuro. Ofuro was, that space was Mr. Sano was running the Hashidate Bath. But when the water department (started) charging for sewage disposal and the water rates went up, he said he couldn't afford it. The rates that he was getting, charging for ofuro so he just closed up.

YM: Is that when they all closed up?

TH: Most of them. I think Hinode-yu underneath the American was still operating.

YM: That must have been furnished by Rainier Heat, huh?

TH: Yeah.

YM: Hot water.

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