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DH: And during this time your parents were still living out here at Bainbridge Gardens for during the '60s and '70s.

JH: That's right.

DH: Were they still running the business?

JH: Yes, they were. Toward the tail end in 1970s my mom had health problems, and she was diabetic and she was having serious health problems so she really wasn't very active in the business. And she died in 1972 -- or excuse me, 1970, and then without his wife's support my dad became weakened too so he died in 1974.

DH: How old was he when he died?

JH: Eighty-eight.

DH: What did they think of your business?

JH: Well, you talked about a sense of guilt, that's probably where I felt a little sense of guilt. They really wanted me to operate the business that they had started after the war, and for some reason I resisted. And I think they were a little bit disappointed in me for having a side operation that maybe in some ways they may have felt that I was competing against them, but I really wasn't. That hadn't entered my mind at all, but it's probably kind of a rebellious feeling that I had in those days that I liked to do things my way and let them do their thing their way. And, of course, in retrospect maybe they were right. Not in the way they operated, but in the way I should have taken over their business. So I have feelings of guilt about that.

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