I remember buying flowers for my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and girlfriend in the 1950's and '60s from Kern Park Floral (as it was known then). And, just last week, they delivered an elegant arrangement to one of my vendors. It was my way of saying thank you for incredible service. Flowers are the right gift for any occasion and they always have been. I'm so pleased that this business has remained a part of our neighborhood for all these years.
I always believed, until my run in with the Itami family, that Japanese people were honorable. Just as in every race, some Japanese or Japanese/mixed race (as in this case) are good people & others are not so good, but God will be their ultimate judge... in the end. If not for an incompetent attorney's staff member, the son, who inherited this flower shop, would've faced a lawsuit. He should have faced criminal charges & if not for corruption in the police department & the fact that this family has officers who work for the police department, he would've been prosecuted. This grandmother, Fumi, that they speak so lovingly about...Chad's sister, & the whole family knew Chad was still married while he was engaged to me & I was pregnant with his baby & not one bothered to inform me of this! He stole thousands (a felony amount) out of my checking account. He has a gambling addiction & was gambling $1,000 or more of my money away, daily, at the "Ram" which was, at the time, a restaurant near U.S. Bank where Chad was employed as a "Leasing Liason Officer" at the time. He was employed with a bank while stealing money out of a single Mom's checking account in order to fund his gambling addiction! The money he stole out of my checking, was money I had worked for YEARS to save to buy a furnace for my home because I only had a pellet stove, which wasn't adequately heating the house causing my children & to have to suffer in a very cold home. When the police questioned him, he claimed that he bought me a lot of items. Yes, in fact he did, he also took my family out to dinners...using my debit card, without my knowledge! I lived on an unimproved road, at the time, so my mail was being held by the bank & I didn't learn of the theft until later into the "relationship." I was a single Mom with 2 daughters, owned my own home & had just been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when I met him & he lied stating he was "in the process of a divorce." He stated "I have filed for divorce & it will be complete in 90 days." This family was so cruel & just discarded me after what Chad did to me! None of them ever even gave me a simple apology. In fact, Chad laughed when I told him I was pregnant with his baby girl. All of this led to life long problems for me. Complete mistrust, it tore apart my family & ruined mine & my children's lives. Then, I saw an interview Chad did with the Oregonian after a check cashing business was robbed near their flower shop. Chad said (about the man who robbed the check cashing store) "just a typical crook." I would like to ask the Itami family how they can be such hypocrites? Calling someone a "typical crook," as Chad is quoted to have said to the reporter, standing up for Chad even after he stole right out of a single Mom's checking account (while he was living off of me) & the whole family didn't even mention that he was still married & welcomed me to the family? Because my birthday is close to the same date as his Grandmother's, the family even through a birthday party for us both & at the same time, they all gave me cards welcoming me to the family! Sociopaths or narcissists? I will never know. However, I HONESTLY (unlike Chad pretends to) FULLY believe & have complete faith in GOD & karma & I know this family will face both for their ruining of others lives...as they speak of how their family was wrongly segregated & speak of what a wonderful family they have. In my eyes, people like this are the saddest & most pathetic people in the world because they aren't even real. They live a complete facade. The reality about this family is, in my opinion, evil & ugly. In the end, however, God will be their individual judges! I'm not afraid to post this publicly, I openly invite any of this family to take me to court, they cheated me & my children out of so much & I still have the proof! America is going through so much right now & I realize it is part of a bigger plan. This family didn't care what Chad did to me & even actively participated in the lies & cover up. They are not what they present to be to the outside world. I do believe they will have to answer to this, someday...& it may be soon!
Wonderful to have this shop in the neighborhood. Hope you’ll be around for another 5 generations!
Thank you for posting this! I love living in a neighborhood with such a longstanding family business.
I remember buying flowers for my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and girlfriend in the 1950's and '60s from Kern Park Floral (as it was known then). And, just last week, they delivered an elegant arrangement to one of my vendors. It was my way of saying thank you for incredible service. Flowers are the right gift for any occasion and they always have been. I'm so pleased that this business has remained a part of our neighborhood for all these years.
I ordered flowers from your shop because of this video. Keep up this wonderful legacy!
I always believed, until my run in with the Itami family, that Japanese people were honorable.
Just as in every race, some Japanese or Japanese/mixed race (as in this case) are good people & others are not so good, but God will be their ultimate judge... in the end.
If not for an incompetent attorney's staff member, the son, who inherited this flower shop, would've faced a lawsuit.
He should have faced criminal charges & if not for corruption in the police department & the fact that this family has officers who work for the police department, he would've been prosecuted.
This grandmother, Fumi, that they speak so lovingly about...Chad's sister, & the whole family knew Chad was still married while he was engaged to me & I was pregnant with his baby & not one bothered to inform me of this!
He stole thousands (a felony amount) out of my checking account. He has a gambling addiction & was gambling $1,000 or more of my money away, daily, at the "Ram" which was, at the time, a restaurant near U.S. Bank where Chad was employed as a "Leasing Liason Officer" at the time.
He was employed with a bank while stealing money out of a single Mom's checking account in order to fund his gambling addiction!
The money he stole out of my checking, was money I had worked for YEARS to save to buy a furnace for my home because I only had a pellet stove, which wasn't adequately heating the house causing my children & to have to suffer in a very cold home.
When the police questioned him, he claimed that he bought me a lot of items. Yes, in fact he did, he also took my family out to dinners...using my debit card, without my knowledge!
I lived on an unimproved road, at the time, so my mail was being held by the bank & I didn't learn of the theft until later into the "relationship."
I was a single Mom with 2 daughters, owned my own home & had just been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when I met him & he lied stating he was "in the process of a divorce." He stated "I have filed for divorce & it will be complete in 90 days."
This family was so cruel & just discarded me after what Chad did to me!
None of them ever even gave me a simple apology.
In fact, Chad laughed when I told him I was pregnant with his baby girl.
All of this led to life long problems for me.
Complete mistrust, it tore apart my family & ruined mine & my children's lives.
Then, I saw an interview Chad did with the Oregonian after a check cashing business was robbed near their flower shop. Chad said (about the man who robbed the check cashing store) "just a typical crook."
I would like to ask the Itami family how they can be such hypocrites?
Calling someone a "typical crook," as Chad is quoted to have said to the reporter, standing up for Chad even after he stole right out of a single Mom's checking account (while he was living off of me) & the whole family didn't even mention that he was still married & welcomed me to the family?
Because my birthday is close to the same date as his Grandmother's, the family even through a birthday party for us both & at the same time, they all gave me cards welcoming me to the family!
Sociopaths or narcissists?
I will never know.
However, I HONESTLY (unlike Chad pretends to) FULLY believe & have complete faith in GOD & karma & I know this family will face both for their ruining of others lives...as they speak of how their family was wrongly segregated & speak of what a wonderful family they have.
In my eyes, people like this are the saddest & most pathetic people in the world because they aren't even real. They live a complete facade. The reality about this family is, in my opinion, evil & ugly.
In the end, however, God will be their individual judges!
I'm not afraid to post this publicly, I openly invite any of this family to take me to court, they cheated me & my children out of so much & I still have the proof!
America is going through so much right now & I realize it is part of a bigger plan.
This family didn't care what Chad did to me & even actively participated in the lies & cover up.
They are not what they present to be to the outside world.
I do believe they will have to answer to this, someday...& it may be soon!