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TI: Okay, before we go there, let's go back now to Seattle and, as a young boy, and talk about some of your earliest memories of Seattle. What were some of the things you can remember about Seattle?

FT: Yeah. I remember we moved from Main Street to Eighteenth and Charles, an apartment that had several Japanese families (and their children), (...) went to Rainier (...) grade school. (I) continued to go to Bailey Gatzert. While I was in (...) the sixth grade, we moved to Tenth and Fir. After I finished sixth grade (at) Bailey Gatzert, I went to Washington School -- I guess you'd call in junior high now, for the seventh and eighth grades. (...) I should have (...) gone (to) Pacific School (...), which (was) on Jefferson and (...) Eleventh Avenue. But (a) friend said, "Come with me to Washington," so I went to Washington. (...) "I'll go to Broadway with you." (Although) he was in the Garfield (district).

TI: Oh, so let me, let me --

FT: And so anyway, (...) I went to Washington.

TI: So what was this good friend's name?

FT: Peter Yoshitomi. Yeah, he was one of the guys that changed his name at the same time. His name was Isao, he changed it to Peter.

TI: So let me just make sure I get this. So after you moved a couple of times, and so when you were at Tenth and Fir, you should have been going to Pacific, but instead you stayed at Bailey Gatzert. And then you were supposed to go to Washington?

FT: We went to Washington. Eighteenth and what is it...

TI: Okay, but your friend was supposed to go to Garfield, but he went to Broadway.

FT: Well, see, Bailey Gatzert was only a six-grade school (and you had to go to Washington or Pacific). (Pete) lived in the Washington school area (and Pacific was my district school). But he wanted me to go to Washington with him on the premise that, when we graduated, he would come to Broadway which was (in) my district, (while his) was Garfield.

TI: Instead of Garfield, got it. Okay, okay.

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