Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Hood River #30: Yasui Brothers Mercantile

12 Oak Street

IMG_6725 Yasui Brothers Mercantile in Hood River, Oregon on June 10, 2009
Yasui Brothers Mercantile on June 10, 2009

Brothers Masuo and Renichi Yasui came to the Hood River Valley in 1908. Masuo became one of Hood River's leading businessmen, owning a real estate office and acres of land.

IMG_6726 Masuo Yasui, ca. 1930
Masuo Yasui, ca. 1930
(Homer Yasui)

The brothers moved their merchandising store, Yasui Brothers Mercantile, into this new $20,000 concrete building in July 1930. This was their third store and they operated the business until World War II, when the US Government relocated Japanese families to internment camps and seized their property. Today the building is occupied by Ground Coffee.

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