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JA: And what kind of fuel did you use for cooking and warming your home?

MH: To start with, we had nothing but wood, which Dad, that was his winter job. He had to chop it and slice it and have it ready for fireplace because the kitchen stove is small, you got to cut them small. And then the living room fire was big so you get a bigger chunk of wood. So he had to chop and have the wood all ready for us, and when he doesn't keep up, Mom had to go out to do it, of course, and get that done for us. And then as we got older, we got involved in it, too, in chopping all that wood. And then as the years came along the coal came along so we started to burn some coal in the living room and some in the kitchen, too, sometime, but nothing like the wood. It's the best for fuel.

JA: Much later, did you change fuel?

MH: How much later? I think about ten years, I think it was, yes.

JA: But did you go to oil?

MH: That was about fifteen years, I think, we turn into oil, yes. Special oil was delivered in great big tanks. 300 gallon tank, outside was sitting there and they filled that with fuel oil, and we used that for our living room heat and kitchen was still wood.

JA: And this was delivered from where?

MH: It was delivered from... to start with it was Mr. Imanishi from Seattle. It was delivered by him first, and then as, with everybody wanting it so it finally became a company in Bellevue, Griffin Oil Company.

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