| Title |
Jun Kurumada, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 18, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 339 |
| Alternative Title |
Jun Kurumada, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Kurumada, Jun, 1913-2013 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-18 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Japan |
| Subject |
Kurumada, Jun, 1913-2013--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Tokyo; Sapporo; Yokohama; Dentists |
| Description |
Transcript (30 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Jun Kurumada on April 18, 2001. This is from tape number 339 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Jun Kurumada (b. 1913) graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in dentristry in 1937 and opened an office on Main Street in Salt Lake City. He reflects on life in Utah during World War II. He was drafted into the army in 1953 and was stationed in Tokyo, Sapporo, and Yokohama. 30 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
30 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Japanese Americans |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026194 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p |
| Title |
Page 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026180 |
| OCR Text |
Show JUN KURUMADA PRI 200 her if I could meet her down right on the comer of First outh and Main tr t. And h agreed to meet me there on the comer there. So I drove down and I got to this com r and I couldn't see anybody. In fact, I couldn't see anybody that I could recognize or that I thought would be that person. Well, she says her name is Mrs. Kodama. I'm looking for a Mrs. Kodama, which I figured she'd be an Asian woman, but she wasn't an Asian woman. She was a Caucasian woman. So I finally caught up to her, well, I finally got out of the car and I looked around for her and she came up to me and told me who she was and she wanted to know if I could help her find a house. And she said she had the finances to be able to buy a house if it was necessary. And so I contacted a real estate agent who says, "Yes, I have a house and they're willing to sell it." I think, at that time it was just a small house near the Holy Cross Hospital, it was a small house there. I think the asking price at that time was around $5,000, which she felt, well, she could easily make that. And so being a Caucasian woman she had no problem being able to buy the house. So she bought the house. And sometime later, why the pharmacist, there was a pharmacist that lived pretty close to the place and I knew this fellow and he asked me one day. (END OF SIDE A) BEC: We have the lady who bought this house ... JUN: We have the lady who bought this house and we'd see her once in a while, but also, we also see a Japanese or an Asian person there. And he's there early in the morning. Every morning he's out tending to the yard and more or less taking care of 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p/1026180 |
