| Title: |
Nami Nakashima Diaz
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Long Beach Area History: Signal Hill
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| Description: |
Nami Nakashima Diaz lived most of her life in Signal Hill. Although she was born in Long Beach, her family moved to Signal Hill while she was a little girl. She remembers the hill as an agricultural area covered with flowers, vegetables and fruit until oil was discovered. When oil was discovered under her family's land, they moved to west Long Beach and her father used his small income from oil to open a fertilizer business. He was successful in selling Western Star Vegetable Fertilizers to Japanese farmers all over southern California. Diaz graduated from high school and continued studying violin and playing in the Long Beach Women's Symphony until she married.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Diaz, Nami Nakashima
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Long Beach, CA; California; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Musician
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Historical events discussed: |
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; California; Japan; Long Beach, CA; North America; Signal Hill, CA; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; California; Family--Long Beach (Calif.); Japan; Japanese American families; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans--California; Land use--Long Beach (Calif.); Long Beach (Calif.)--History; Long Beach, CA; North America; Oil fields--Signal Hill (Calif.); Oral history; Signal Hill, CA; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035246-38813
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