Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Gloria Toshiko Imagire Interview
Narrator: Gloria Toshiko Imagire
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Sacramento, California
Date: October 17, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-igloria-01-0017

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RP: So you graduated from nursing school and worked here in...

GI: I worked at UC Hospital for a while. Then my mom was going to have a hysterectomy, so I quit that job and I moved to Sacramento to take care of her until she recuperated. And then I worked for the Youth Authority, they had a little dispensary. I worked there for about, gosh, I can't remember, for about three years, and then I got married. And then I worked for the health department for about three years, then we started our family and then I didn't work anymore.

RP: So you met Art at school in San Francisco?

GI: Yeah. He said his friend said, "Oh, let's go up to UC Hospital and go meet some nursing, nurses." [Laughs] So I knew a friend who introduced me. So we met that way.

RP: Did you ever get the opportunity to go visit your father's gambling establishment in Lodi?

GI: No, no. They were just, you know, I didn't know what it was like or anything.

RP: It was this kind of secretive world that you never looked in on.

GI: I guess so. Yeah, it was not that it was secretive, but it was like, I guess 'cause I'm a child or something. You know, this is an adult thing.

RP: Later on in life.

GI: Yeah. And now, I wish I had delved into it, because I would have, I'm almost positive that his place in Monterey was on Cannery Row, 'cause that's where all the Chinese things were. And I'm sure it was all... 'cause it would have been where the fishermen came in. So I thought, "Wow, that would have been so interesting to research that and find out some stuff."

RP: And that's a trait that didn't get passed on in the family, it sounds like.

GI: Oh, no. My brothers loved to gamble. My brothers loved to gamble. But I went the other way. I'm so afraid of, you know... I like to play, too, but I never do it like that. I don't want to lose anything.

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