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TI: So you weren't making very much money, so where, where did you live during this period?

HH: Well, I was living in a, originally, my uncle had me stay with my cousin. He had an apartment, the Star Apartment up on Spruce Street. Then he asked, he got a chance for me to stay in one of the church members', Mr. Hara's, shoe repair shop, and I was able to use his for free, in the back room. I could cook myself and cook my meals and everything, and it was close to Jefferson Avenue, so I could take the streetcar there. And then, but the streetcar went downtown and then, sort of, kind of roundabout way, but I used to, close to. And then sometimes I did stay on Yesler, Fourteenth and Yesler, and also had to take a bus, I mean, the streetcar was right there, Yesler cable car that I could take downtown and then go to university. And so those are places, but just before and after that, though, I was able to get a place up on Boren Avenue, Matsuzakis' house where I had four other people, three other people from Tacoma, Fife area, wanted to stay with me. And so I did all the cooking and they did the washing the dishes for me, and I did...

TI: So you shared, like a house, and then...

HH: Yes, it was very cheap.

TI: ...you did the cooking, someone else did the other chores, and you just kind of shared?

HH: Yes.

TI: Well, that must have been, that must have been fun.

HH: Oh, yes. [Laughs]

TI: So who, do you remember who you did that with?

HH: Yes. A fellow from Tacoma, two fellows.

TI: And were they all going to the University of Washington, also?

HH: Yes. They were already, they were a little bit older than me, so we had the guy, Yoneo Yokobe, and Fukura, they were from Seattle, I mean, Tacoma. And then the other person was Mas Omoto from Fife area, and he had a car. And so it was after we got... and then we were living in the Matsuzakis' home on Boren Avenue, so solved the... we can go, but he was, Mas Omoto was in the medical, he was in the medical department. And so we had to take a streetcar home from the university because he had to stay longer.

TI: Okay, so he had to stay longer.

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