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MA: So when you were growing up then, who were your friends?

GY: Just the Japanese guys and couple of hakujins.

MA: What did you do for fun?

GY: We rode a bike, rode 'em all over Spokane County. I mean, we rode all over Spokane County. And we just, I guess the Niseis just enjoy each other's company. We were in the Boy Scouts sponsored by the American Legion way before the war. And the American Legion also sponsored us for the YMCA. Every Friday night, we used to go down there and swim. And I guess we had several Italian, good friends, Italians.

MA: Were these people that lived in the same neighborhood?

GY: Uh-huh, yeah. Well, not so much the same neighborhood, but we lived on the South Hill primarily. I could think of several big-name Italians that oh, was connected with the University of Idaho at Moscow, and one of 'em ran the biggest Pepsi cola, Coca-Cola, beer, distributing company here in town, and he still does, or at least his family does now. And I guess when we went camping, we generally, I can't remember any hakujins in there, any Caucasians, but there were several Niseis, we used to go out camping, ride our bike and camping would consist of passing our merit badges. Earning our merit badges.

MA: Oh, so this was with the Boy Scouts that you went camping?

GY: Yes, the Boy Scouts. If not for the Boy Scouts, we went out camping and enjoyed cooking breakfast and fishing by a stream. Oh, yeah. [Laughs]

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