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Full title:Yonezo Suzuki, 539 West Second, South, owner and operator of the Topaz Barber Shop. Yonezo was evacuated from San Francisco, California, to the Central Utah Relocation Center and lately was given leave clearance to establish his own barber shop, which he named after the post office address of this relocation center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. He was born at Shiga-Ken, Japan, but has spent many years in the United States, and served in the infantry from Hawaii in the last year. He became a naturalized citizen November 6, 1936, in San Francisco. For six years he was Finance Manager of the Townsend-Harris Post. Photo shows Yonezo practicing his tonsorial art on a fellow Japanese-American. Photographer: Stewart, Francis Topaz, Utah.
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