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LH: And your parents were still running this, I guess, Brewer Supply Store, Home Brewery.

FG: Home Brew Supply.

LH: So, I mean, what do they... like malts and hops.

FG: It's that malt syrup and hops, the bottles for, I guess to put it in, the caps, the capper, yeast for the beer; but mostly I think it was that malt, the malt syrup and the hops. I think that's what they sold mostly. Oh, they also sold this was as a result of the Depression so they also sold wine. It's interesting, my father was a teetotaler.

LH: Really. So he never drank himself, but...

FG: No. Uh-uh.

LH: Probably easier that way, don't skim the profits.

FG: And then the other thing that I used to do was that my father would deliver the supplies. We had a van, one of those old vans, and my dad always used to take me everywhere.

LH: So where would he deliver?

FG: All over the city and they would be people, most of them were hakujin, and so he drove all over. We went from West Seattle, to north Seattle, and I think we... I remember driving to the Kent valley and Sumner Puyallup, the Puyallup valley, to buy hops, and Daddy went to buy hops there. And then I used to go with him and we used to buy the containers from, they were Weyerhauser containers, those little cardboard boxes. The cardboard containers, they're not boxes. Today they would be plastic, but at that time it was heavy cardboard coated so that you could put the malt in it.

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