Interview with Sam Uyehara
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; c...
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ftunivhawaiimano:oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/30440 2023-05-15T16:17:28+02:00 Interview with Sam Uyehara Uyehara, Sam Nishimoto, Warren Pauoa, Oahu 1986 Reformatted digital 3 hr, 7 min 56 pages application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30440 eng eng DU629 .W44 W3 1988 Waikiki, 1910 - 1985: Oral Histories http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30440 13-67-1-86, 13-68-2-86, 13-69-3-86 Family Life Hotels and Restaurants Land and Ownership Plantation Life Sports Interview Text 1986 ftunivhawaiimano 2022-07-17T13:17:20Z 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. State Text Ford Island ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa |
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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. State |
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