J.A. Sharoff Egg Company

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TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW WITH JOE OZAKI and MARGE TANIWAKI

Joe: When, um, my dad first got to Denver, he did everything he could to survive. So he worked in the daytime with the JR-, JA Scharf Egg Company, which is down about 18th and Market or somewhere. And he worked there during the day moving boxes of eggs. It's also a place where a lot of Japanese, uh, American women or Japanese women would do egg candling, because they were good at that. I'm not sure what it means, but they were accurate, I guess.

Marge: What, what it is is you hold up the candle to, uh, the egg, to a candle and you look inside and you can tell, I guess, whether it's fertilized or not. I think that was the whole thing.

Joe: Yeah. Have an embryo… that wouldn't, wouldn't be good to open it up to make scrambled eggs and have an embryo in the middle!