Interview with Bob Nimi

Date

2011-01-20

2011-02-22

Description

The interview was conducted on January 20, 2011 in North Vancouver, BC and February 22, 2011 in Burnaby, BC. In the interview Mr Nimi discusses life on Powell Street and living at 331 Powell Street in Vancouver, BC, where his father owned Nimi Shoten from c. 1918 to 1942. He discusses his father, Toragoro Nimi, in detail,specifically about his time as an early Asahi baseball player and later a coach of an early Asahi team. In addition, he talks about his father's involvement with the 'Tanomoshi',a lending circle comprised of a group of trusted friends that would lend money to each for business ventures.

Physical description

1 online resource (1 audio file (03:35:47))

Business/company discussed

Nimi Shoten

Time period discussed

1918 - 1941

Accession Number

1997.197.2.1

Location

British Columbia

Subject (Geographic)

Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.)

Minto Lake (B.C.)

Genre

Interviews

Oral histories

Sound recordings

Type of resource

Sound recording non-musical

Language

English

Part of

Japanese Canadian Oral History Collection

Identifier

johc_19

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Japanese Canadian National Museum

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