Interview with Sam Uyehara

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dc.contributor.intervieweeUyehara, Sam
dc.contributor.interviewerNishimoto, Warren
dc.coverage.spatialPauoa, Oahu
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-05T20:52:16Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-25T23:05:17Z
dc.date.available2013-09-05T20:52:16Z
dc.date.available2015-03-25T23:05:17Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.descriptionThe 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.
dc.descriptionsugar plantation worker, carpenter, construction worker, restaurant owner; Okinawan; male
dc.descriptionInterview conducted in English.
dc.description.sponsorshipState
dc.format.digitaloriginReformatted digital
dc.format.extent3 hr, 7 min
dc.format.extent56 pages
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/30440
dc.languageeng
dc.relation.ispartofDU629 .W44 W3 1988
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWaikiki, 1910 - 1985: Oral Histories
dc.source.local13-67-1-86, 13-68-2-86, 13-69-3-86
dc.subjectFamily Life
dc.subjectHotels and Restaurants
dc.subjectLand and Ownership
dc.subjectPlantation Life
dc.subjectSports
dc.titleInterview with Sam Uyehara
dc.typeInterview
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