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MA: And I guess in high school again, what social activities did you do?

MT: In those days?

MA: Uh-huh, when you were a teenager.

MT: Oh, social, when we grew up to know better and know instead of being little kids, I used to go out with Kazue's husband. [Laughs] We used to go down to, a bunch of us would go to Natatorium Park, and that's where they had the carousel and the wheel and everything, and the name bands would come there. Name bands by, I mean by Kay Kaiser and Sinatra and stuff, they, Sinatra was nobody then.

MA: Did you actually see Sinatra?

MT: No, but I know that he was there. And I didn't go every time, I wasn't that... nobody was breaking down or breaking my door to get in. [Laughs] But yeah, and we did all those things, going there as a group. We went to formals, too, and everybody knew when somebody had gone out the night before because they'd come to church with a corsage on their choir robe. [Laughs] It was so funny. It isn't funny, it was nice. Advertising that they had a date.

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MA: Oh, so you're talking about when people from the West Coast, Japanese Americans, came to Spokane?

MT: To Spokane, and everything closed up in camp.

MA: What do you think about that? Was there, what was the relationship like there, between the, these newcomers and the...

MT: Oh, they had friends and stuff, yeah. It was good. But yeah, it was good. But I didn't know too many people. People like Kazue, she's been down in California and then she knows a lot of people in Seattle, I don't. I don't know outside people, so you kids, gee, they have all the dates, you know, I had to settle for none, just because of them, probably. [Laughs] Bad.

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