His parents found him at Sasaki's store eating a free ice cream. This is where Janice and Wayne Furuto found the little red wagon one of their children wanted for Christmas. Kona history flows out effortlessly from under Sasaki's droopy mustache. He said there was already a Chinese community in Holualoa when his father built the Tong Wo Tong cemetery gate in 1904. Everybody used rock foundation.
Earthquake comes, the water tanks fall down.
My father made his foundation of wood triangles. In his teens, Sasaki tried selling newspaper subscriptions door to door, but coffee farmers didn't read newspapers. He pioneered the bicycle market in Kona with a Schwinn shipped by steamer from Honolulu by Eki Cyclery on King Street. The bicycle sold right away and Sasaki ordered more. Then he had to learn how to fix them.