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DG: Well could, could the Japanese stay in any of the hotels? I mean, was there discriminatory practices at all?

KS: Well.

TS: I don't think there was, but I think the natural tendency was for them to, if they get turned down at, because the place was, they were told that they were full...

KS: Full.

TS: ...whether it was, was or was not, they naturally gravitated towards Japanese operated hotels.

DG: Was this a Japanese operated hotel?

KS: Yes.

TS: That's right.

DG: Somebody had owned it from long before?

KS: No.

TS: The place where we, I had a job was a, operated by a native Salt Lake man, Japanese.

KS: But he had just taken it over a year, that year, because it was very run down and very insect infested. So shortly after we moved in there, he had to seal the whole building and fumigate it. And, to get rid of the (insects).

DG: Were there other Japanese hotels there?

KS: Yes, a few others.

TS: I don't even remember.

KS: I don't know who they were, but...

TS: What the names of them.

DG: I see what you mean by them being full and...

KS: Oh yes.

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