Oral history interview with Frank Kobayashi and Evelyn Kobayashi by Caryl Blanchard and Marcia Kelleher

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Title Oral history interview with Frank Kobayashi and Evelyn Kobayashi by Caryl Blanchard and Marcia Kelleher
Creator Kobayashi, Frank and Evelyn; Blanchard; Caryl; Kelleher, Marcia
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2009-09-28
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-29
Spatial Coverage Tulare County Fairgrounds, Tulare County, California, United States https://www.geonames.org/5403791/tulare-county-fairgrounds.html City of Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7173635/city-of-honeyville.html
Subject Basketball; B-29 (Bomber); Baseball; Boxing; Boy Scouts; Canneries; Carbon dioxide; Chickens; Children; Cleaning; Cookies; Elementary schools; F-16 (Jet fighter plane); Farming; Friends; Grandchildren; Hearing loss; High school; Hiking; Hill Air Force Base (Utah); Internment camp inmates; Jamboree of Boy Scouts, World; Japan; Japanese Americans--Civil rights; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Japanese American families; Loss; Marriage; Middle schools; Missile warheads; Natural disasters; Neighbors; Parents; School sports; Sharing; Southern California; Sugar factories; Thiokol Chemical Corporation; Tulare Assembly Center (Tulare, Calif.); Wives; World Organization of the Scout Movement; Wrestling; Amalga (Utah); Mount Fuji (Japan); Box Elder High School (Brigham City, Utah); Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Rexburg (Idaho); Honeyville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Caryl Blanchard and Marcia Kelleher with Frank Kobayashi and Evelyn Kobayashi. Topics include: Helping to clean up houses after a flood in Rexburg, Idaho, Cleaning at the cannery, Bring home extra cookies, Sharing sweets with neighbors, A little personal background, including Frank's early years in Southern California, Forced relocation to the Fresno Relocation Center Japanese-American Internment Camp in California during World War II, Not having any school to attend or work to do, Not having any income, Losing everything like the family farm, house, and car, Parents volunteering to work at the Amalgamated Sugar Company in Cache Valley, Settling in Honeyville after being released, Moving to Honeyville in elementary/middle school, being in school classes with mixed grades, Playing baseball and riding to sporting events in the Principal's car, Farming, Friends, Chickens, State Fairs, Participating in high school sports like boxing and wrestling, Graduating from Box Elder High School, Getting carbon dioxide poisoning from the school bus, Working at the Utah General Depot, the Hill Airfield for 30 years, Transfering to Thiokol, Working everything from B-29s to F-16s to missles, Hearing loss, Meeting his future wife while playing high school basketball, Marriage, Children, Grandchildren, Boy Scouts, Attending a World Scouting Jamobree in Japan, and Climbing Mount Fuji with scouts.
Collection Number and Name MSS B 1931 The Honeyville Heritage Oral Histories, 2009
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 130 leaves; 3:03:15
Language eng
Rights
Source MSS B 1931 The Honeyville Heritage Oral Histories, 2009
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6n9kza5
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2468018
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6n9kza5
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