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DN: You mentioned Frank Kitamoto as well -- did these fellows all play baseball?

EH: Well, now, see, I didn't know Frank until back, well, I met Frank when they started in promoting the park in Eagledale. He's, he was two or three years old when he was taken away. He's a, a dentist, and he's located right across the street from Bainbridge High School, and he'd been there for years. And like I say, he goes all over. Well, always tries to take Jerry with him -- [laughs] -- as a back up. But Frank has done an awful lot of research. And I'm the program chairman for the Poulsbo Historical Society, and the last meeting we had, I had Frank over to, to put on his program for us, which went over very well. And we had that on film, too. [Laughs]

DN: But, did, and you played baseball, too, obviously. Did you play on the high school team?

EH: No.

DN: No.

EH: I played football. That was the, that was the only sport I played. Well, you know, I was offered a job at the old Port Blakely store. And, and come down there after school nights, and work until six o'clock. And so I did that, because needed, needed to buy gasoline for my Model A. [Laughs]

DN: [Laughs] You had bought yourself a Model A in high school?

EH: I did. I had one in a million. It was a Model A convertible with roll-up windows, and it was called the Cabriolet, and it only, they only built a few of 'em. And I paid thirty-five bucks for it.

DN: [Laughs] Used.

EH: There, oh, yeah, it was used, yeah. And boy, did the girls like that car. Oh, man. I'd take the top down, and, and the girls would sit across the top of the, of the, the top, and in the rumble seat, and away we'd go.

DN: You, did you get of rid of it when you went off, when you joined the service?

EH: I, oh, I, I got rid of it, boy, I don't remember. I think my next car was a '37 or '38 Plymouth. And then, then I got rid of that, and then I bought the '41 Ford. '40, '40 Ford coupe that I had with me in the service when I was over at Ephrata.

DN: I see.

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