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DH: And you, so then you and your two brothers, your older brother and your younger brother, lived here at Bainbridge Gardens. Did you help your parents after school?

JH: That's correct.

DH: Did you work here?

JH: Yes, we did.

DH: What did you do? What was your job?

JH: Basically, we did a lot of hauling, and building, and weeding, and toward the tail end of the years I remember working with my dad on the steam boiler. And I learned a lot of mechanics by working in the steam boiler, and learning how to thread pipe, and using mechanical tools and watching the welding process, and it was a, truly a good learning experience.

DH: What was the steam boiler for?

JH: It was for heating the greenhouses.

DH: Did it help that the three of you spoke English so you could communicate with the rest of the English-speaking island? Did you translate for your parents still?

JH: Oh, yes. I was... after Norio left for Chicago, they depended on me to do everything from, you know, that needed to be interpreted. I did the books, I did the ordering, and it was a valuable experience for me.

DH: So you learned the business end.

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