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Show TAD FUJITfj is how I hobnobbed with the richest group in San Francisco, and even today like the Levi Strauss, the H()~~ ~ ---?--- family, Lilianthal family, their children were there, and even today after sixty-five years I still have this friendship with Lilianthals. But com in g b a c k t o my s c h o o 1 d a y s , I went to P a c i f i c Heights, and I went to Poly, Polytechnic, then I went to the University of California, then I graduated in '32 which was at the lowest level of the Depression. Am I doing all right? ST: Oh, fine, yes. What did you study? TF: I studiei business administration, but being an oriental, and during the Depression, say there is fifty openings for one jobf, and I would be at the bottom of the totem pole, so what chance did I have in the industrial firms like banking or shipping or- tOt ,,~ 1rJt . I( o.C h', ~ --?---. So a friend of mine, ---?--- Marada, parent's had an import business specializing in gold fish, -Q..xo-Bt. . tropical fish, an ex.h::i:bit fish that came into Japan, and then we distributed that to the local department stores and retail stores. It was a very specialized business and very challenging, and I stayed there for ten years, or less than ten years because we had to evacuate in '42, exactly ten years. And so with this uo~~-orl tvL historic ~mmifi~i~, knowing not what to do, what to 5 |
