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KO: Okay, can you describe the picture that you're holding?

RO: This is the grand opening of Onishi Florist, 1947.

KO: Fifty-seven years ago. And who are the people in the picture?

RO: Yeah, my mother and father.

KO: I see. It looks like a very big place.

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KO: And this is a picture of the nursery?

RO: Uh-huh, that's my uncle and aunt and my cousin.

KO: In the picture?

RO: Uh-huh.

KO: In the foreground is...

RO: The nursery.

KO: And the back building?

RO: In the back is that flower shop, and they were building something on the top, apartment on the top.

KO: Is that in existence today?

RO: That's in existence.

KO: But the...

RO: The nursery's not in existence, but that building's still there.

KO: Okay. The nursery was eventually the hall.

RO: Then the, that's where that Mexican restaurant is, that's where the Onishi Hall used to be.

KO: Okay.

RO: We had a Japanese restaurant in there at one time, Sakura Gardens. Sakura Gardens of Mountain View?

KO: Uh-huh.

RO: They were a little too early for a Japanese restaurant in this area, I guess. They lasted about three or four years.

KO: The one in Mountain View?

RO: (No, the restaurant in San Jose.)

KO: I remember that. Oh, so there were two?

RO: Yeah, this was the San Jose branch, but they were a little too early.

KO: Not too many people liked Japanese food then.

RO: Yeah, not at that time, yeah.

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