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GF: There's always the thought is that the parents are the one that you should obey. Dad and Mom says, "Why don't you come back to the States?" They were running the Globe Hotel and I had no intention of what I'm going to do over here. I thought I would start a little furniture store or something. That was my idea because I had been in the furniture business a long time. So I says well, I'll come back. And then my dad says, "Why don't you go into the hotel business?" Gee, I don't know nothing about hotel business. He says, "Well, there's the Fairmont Hotel there and it's on leased property." And oh, I'll try. If I can't make it, I'll go back to Hawaii, but I stayed and here I am now. [Laughs]

DG: Now, that was what year?

GF: That was 19... I came back here in 1955 so about 1956 or something like that, I think.

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