| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Ichiro Doi |
| Alternative Title |
Ichiro Doi |
| Creator |
Doi, Ichiro, 1917- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-07-02 |
| Date Digital |
2014-03-25 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; South Korea, http://sws.geonames.org/1835841/ ; Japan, http://sws.geonames.org/1861060/ |
| Subject |
Doi, Ichiro, 1917- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Utah--Ethnic relations; Hoteliers; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Influence |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 28 pages) of an interview on July 2, 1984, by Leslie Kelen with Ichiro Doi, who was born in Utah in 1918 and grew up in Salt Lake City. Mr. Doi (b. 1917) talks about his parents, farming, the flu epidemic of 1918, and emigrant life on the West Side in Salt Lake City. He recalls the multi-cultural neighborhood of his childhood and gang activity. Other topics covered include the Athens and West Side hotels (which were owned by his family), the Buddhist Church, the Japanese Christian Church, courting his wife, the Eagle laundry, and life in Salt Lake City in the months following Pearl Harbor |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6g74wt9 |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Hotelkeepers; Pearl Harbor, Attack on (Hawaii : 1941) |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897619 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g74wt9 |
| Title |
Page 54 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897609 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ichiro Dei 7-6-84 s1:20 ID NO, they just brought here to start working there. Married for 28 years until she died. L How do you remember the meeting? ID Well, when this fellow first brought her in. I thought, my gosh, she's dark and not much to look at. {laughs} Cause she was just crf the farm-So she was really sun-tanned and dark and I didn't think shewas much to look at. But, turned out differently. gradually as you get to know each other. L Where were her parents from? ID Her ~rents were living in Cheyenne, Wyoming. And they're from the EHIME L course is the village. SO she came down from Wyoming by herself to work. ID No, she was working. for a family in Provo before she came to Salt Lake. L Is there a kind a a courtship period. I mean, is there a special time period that you wait. ID Well, we went around for about a couple of years. Finally, her parents said, no more horsing around. You're either going to get married or -- just forget about it. So I thought, well, we better get married. So I married her. L So you got married and -where did~u live? ID Oh, we lived in the hotel for a while. And then eventually weoought a home out in Bountiful in 1953. And, lived there ever since. L That was much later then. ID Yes, much later. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g74wt9/897609 |
