Interview with Sam Uyehara

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1986

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Nishimoto, Warren

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Uyehara, Sam

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The proprietor of Smile Cafe talks about his childhood and schooling in Pepeekeo and Papaikou on the Big Island; father's kompang (group sugar cultivation) contract; chores and summer work; Maukaloa home and neighbors; plantation baseball; Pepeekeo Plantation carpentry work; move to Honolulu; construction work; Makanoe Lane home leased from Magoon; and surrounding neighborhood. He also discusses the opening of Smile Cafe on former Aloha Park land; lease and later purchase of land; remodeling; employees and customers; menu and suppliers; post-Prohibition bar; Quarterback Club; December 7, 1941; wartime customer boom of defense workers and soldiers; Japanese and Okinawan internees; post-war Ford Island cafeteria; 1947 government condemnation of land; move to Kapiolani Boulevard; AJA (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) baseball league; and cafe closing and retirement in 1962.
sugar plantation worker, carpenter, construction worker, restaurant owner; Okinawan; male
Interview conducted in English.

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Family Life, Hotels and Restaurants, Land and Ownership, Plantation Life, Sports

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30440

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3 hr, 7 min
56 pages

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Interview

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Pauoa, Oahu

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DU629 .W44 W3 1988

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Waikiki, 1910–1985: Oral Histories
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