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DN: So go back to our story here, now, you graduated in 1940?

EH: '1.

DN: Oh, you graduated in '41?

EH: Yeah.

DN: Okay, right. That summer of '41. What did you do after that summer? What were you doing in, on Bainbridge?

EH: Well, I worked for, for the Port Blakely store, and I was working then, they had me come and work full-time. And then I got offered, from another store out at Lynnwood Center. And I went, worked there for oh, maybe about six months or so. And then, then I had applied for an apprenticeship at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Well, along came a job called the mechanic learner. So I took it, and then commuted to Bremerton every day. But I only stayed there until, for three months. And that's when I left, because Winslow had offered me an apprenticeship in the machine shop at, down there. So I left the naval yard and went down there.

DN: Was there a bridge across Agate Passage then?

EH: No, no, no. That didn't come until 1950 or '51.

DN: So how did you commute?

EH: There was a ferry from Point White to Bremerton. The old Rosario. And then when the Agate Pass bridge was built, why, then they did away with that run. But there was a lot of people that commuted daily to Bremerton. What time was it? I remember we had to go, the ferry ride was only fifteen, twenty minutes, but we had, we had to be out there early in the morning, and it was tough gettin' up that time in the morning. [Laughs] Headin' off for the ferry.

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