Interview with Elsie Mitsu Teruya

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2002

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Kodama-Nishimoto, Michiko

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Teruya, Elsie Mitsu

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A woman describes daily life in a Big Island plantation camp in the 1920s. Her father, a single parent, worked on the plantation and also practiced traditional medicine. Moving to Honolulu, she worked in her family's restaurants--Frankie's Cafe and Columbia Inn--as a server.
server, cashier; Okinawan; female
Interview conducted in English.

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Family Life, Hotels and Restaurants, Japanese-Lifestyles, Plantation Life, Working Conditions

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30273

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3 hr, 30 mins
68 pages

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Interview

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Honolulu, Oahu

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TX910.3 .O79 2004

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The Oroku, Okinawa Connection: Local-Style Restaurants in Hawai‘i
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