Port of Los Angeles Centennial Oral History Project

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    Marifrances Trivelli

  • The Port of Los Angeles celebrated its Centennial on December 9, 2007.  As part of the Port of Los Angeles Centennial Oral History Project, these interviews feature various members of the Los Angeles Harbor Area community who were interviewed in 2007 to document different eras in Port history.

Interviewee Collection Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Yukio Tatsumi Port of Los Angeles Centennial Oral History Project

Yukio Tatsumi was interviewed for the Port of Los Angeles Centennial Oral History Project. Yukio Tatsumi, born on August 23, 1920, on Terminal Island, California, recalls his early life in a close-knit Japanese-American community. His parents were immigrants from Japan, with his father arriving in the United States in the late 1800s and initially working as an abalone diver at White Point. Tatsumi describes Terminal Island as a self-contained community of around 3,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans, with families working in fish canneries.

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