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DG: Okay. Let's get to the United States then. What did your...

BU: What did I do?

DG: Right. So where did you come?

BU: I was born in Yakima, 1918.

DG: And then you went to Japan.

BU: Then went to Japan for two years and came back to Seattle.

DG: To Seattle.

BU: The reason for coming back to Seattle... we got off the boat in Seattle here, and my dad's friend who used to work for him in Yakima at the laundry was here. And he says, "You'd be better off if your family stays here, and well, I'll help you get a dye works place, that's what I have, and you could learn to do those. I'll teach you and you'll be better here." So we had a place right near Broadway High School and equal distance, two blocks away to grade school so that's what enticed Father to stay and open up, open up a dye work place in Seattle right near the high school and the grammar school.

DG: So then you were about fifth grade then, sixth grade?

BU: Fifth grade, yeah.

DG: And you went to Summit School?

BU: Yeah, Summit School. You know Summit School?

DG: Uh-huh.

BU: That where you went?

DG: I didn't go there, but I live near there.

BU: I went to Summit School from fourth grade to eighth grade, then I went to Broadway up the street, three blocks.

DG: So were there Japanese people at Summit?

BU: I don't remember any, but Broadway there was 500.

DG: So then your friends were hakujin friends when you came back here?

BU: Yeah, I had a bunch of hakujin friends, but not very many because, well, all during my high school days and college days, my best friend was a hakujin man, guy, fellow. I used to have, in order to make extra money, I used to deliver newspapers, but some of the time I couldn't deliver it because I'm sick or I'm going somewhere. He would deliver it for me.

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