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Show OHI interview with Toki Nakashirra 7/18/84 8 skillful lady, a tiny lady, fluent in English. Mr liked to drink. They had two children, Eini chan and Brian. They must ~ grown. I don't Jmow what happened to them. I haven' t seen them for a long time. SF How many wanen, Japanese wCJll'el1, worked in the corrmunity- at a full time job like Mrs Matsuo? N Mrs Nakano ran a boarding house. Cleaning business was run by husband and wife, there was a grocery store, too. SF Did the wanen just help the men, or did the warren, were they partners. It sounds like in her business, she started it and then her husband carre in. It was her business. That's sarething to ~very proud of. With other people people may~, they helped their husbands, or rray~ the husbands were rrore prcminent and the wanen just cleaned up. business? In your case, you started the N Yes, then I had Papa help rre. Papa ran the bar~shop; which I disliked. Cleaning is not a good business, but cleaning is where dirty clothes are cleaned and we handled the cleaned clothes, so we did it. SF other couples who had business, the husband ran the business and the wife helped? N Yes, l:::ut in my case, I started the business myself. SF But with others it was different? N I don't know. SF In Mrs Nakano's case, while the husband worked at the railroad, Mrs started the boarding house business? N Yes. In Caliente, Nakano san and Papa all worked together. There was a flu epidemic and everyone got sick, so we were all put in one carload and sent to Salt lake hospital by the Board of Health. During that time, Nakano san heard about the sale of Tokiwaya Hotel and they brought"Lit. There were five roans on TEmple Street. It was an old hotel, a boarding house. |
