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I love Goleta, it's my
home...it's changing all
the time, but I just love it."
MIYE OTA

T H E 1 0 0 -Y E A R - O L D M I Y E O TA 's accomplishments as a female entrepreneur behind a thriving beauty
salon in Old Town Goleta and visionary civic leader was
instrumental in the city's development.
A smiling Miye recalls incredible success stories and she has
a go-getting spirit, with her gold dancing shoes on and her
heart open. Her decades-long legacy impacted people long
before Goleta incorporated.
She grew up outside Guadalupe near the Oso Flaco
Lake and she is a second-generation JapaneseAmerican. Her father farmed sugar beets and built
houses in the area. She attended grammar school and
graduated from Santa Maria High School.

Miye and her siblings were taken from their home and sent
to live at the Gila River camp surrounded by barbed-wire
fences and a guard tower in Arizona. She offered free haircuts to men and women, and met her late husband, Kenji, at
the internment camp during World War II. 
Before moving back to the Central Coast, the two were
married in 1944 after they were released and resided in
Philadelphia, where Miye opened a beauty salon. The couple
settled in Goleta. Miye used her pre-war beauty school
training to start her business, "Beauty by Miye."
She was known for her fine styling skills, and it became the
go-to spot for regular customers like the Hollister and Stow
family members, and other prominent individuals. The
beauty parlor was a gem in Old Town for decades.

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