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TI: Now, were there ever sort of activities or festivities in downtown, like Bon Odori or something like that that brought people together?

FS: Yeah, you know, they used to -- well, they used to, for instance, they would come to, there was this traveling guy who would bring Japanese movies into town, and the only place they could show 'em was in this, in the main hall of this Methodist Mission. And so I know my mother used to look forward to that, you'd go down and watch Japanese movies. And I can, some of them were silent movies, and the guy who, the guy who ran the machine also narrated this thing, so he would do women's voices and men's voices, it was, when you think about it, it was actually an art form for this guy to do this. It was very interesting. And then they would, then there would be social occasions like... I don't know whether Bon Odori or not, but they would, there would be social occasions down there and parties and stuff.

TI: Kind of like a big church bazaar or picnic?

FS: That sort of thing. I just remember going down there with my, with the family. My dad would drive his old Maxwell downtown. My mother, my mother really enjoyed it, so she would, she would meet with other Issei women, and they would just jabber away like you wouldn't believe.

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