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Title: Mary Kinoshita Ikeda Interview
Narrator: Mary Kinoshita Ikeda
Interviewers: Tom Ikeda (primary); Barbara Yasui (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: April 28, 2022
Densho ID: ddr-densho-1000-510-4

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TI: And so your dad, let's talk about what he did in Seattle. So he came to Seattle...

MI: Well, as far as I know, he always worked at the Rainier Club.

TI: Uh-huh, and tell me as much as you can about what he did at the Rainier Club.

MI: That, I don't know. Well, he was the head bellboy, and then he hired other people to work at the Rainier Club.

TI: And so during this time at the Rainier Club, the bell services, the guys who would do the luggage and stuff like that, that would all be Japanese?

MI: I really don't know what he did.

TI: Yeah, I think that's what I've heard.

MI: It was an impressive building.

TI: Because the Rainier Club back then, and even to today, is...

MI: Still an impressive building.

TI: It's one of the top private clubs in Seattle.

MI: Because after, when the war was declared, somehow or another, everybody got fired.

TI: Yeah, so we'll talk a little bit more about that.

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