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Title: Hideo Hoshide Interview I
Narrator: Hideo Hoshide
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: January 26 & 27, 2006
Densho ID: denshovh-hhideo-01-0029

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TI: You, after you went to Lincoln High School in Tacoma, decided to go to the University of Washington to get a journalism and political science background. What was your brother doing after he graduated from Stadium? What did he do?

HH: Well, he stayed in Tacoma, I mean, he stayed at home. And then I made arrangements to go to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. But I didn't know what his plans were because both of us did not have any idea of going to higher... so what he did -- for a short while, not all the way through -- but he did attend the, at the time, there was a college, College of Puget Sound in Tacoma. And so he did attend there for a short while.

TI: So College of Puget Sound, and later on they changed it to University of Puget Sound, UPS. Do you know what he was planning or what he was studying when he was there?

HH: No, I didn't, but you see, I had a feeling that being the oldest, older than I am, he's the oldest, that he may assume the, take up pharmacy or something like that; this is what I thought. So I was free to leave, because I didn't know whether I'd be, have any job in the Tacoma area or not. But anyway, that's why I decided to follow Bob Johnson's plan for me to attend the University of Washington.

TI: So did your older brother end up working with your father in the business at the...

HH: No, he didn't, because by that time, the war started, and so he would just head home and helping at the grocery store.

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