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DG: Well, talking about Salty and your name, a lot of the Nisei have these names like Tomato and Onions and Junks. Why do they have all these names?

ET: Why do they call him Junks?

DG: Everybody has a nickname almost.

YM: Junks Ikeda, Junks Kurose.

TH: I don't know.

YM: I don't know how it come about. Started when we were kids, huh.

TH: Well, maybe like Junks Kurose, maybe his name was Junro. It could be because so easier to maybe it derived from that, from his name.

DG: That means that the Japanese names were harder to pronounce.

TH: That's right.

DG: So they gave each other a nickname.

ET: Yeah, like my brother Junkichi, we called him Junbo.

DG: Jim.

ET: Well, now he changed it to Jim.

YM: You were Shizuto all the time.

ET: Shizuto, that's right, after the war.

ET: Frank gave me Elmer.

DG: Who's Frank?

ET: Frank Yoshitake.

TH: Oh, is that right?

DG: Well, a lot of people got names from their teachers.

TH: Yeah, Frank. He was Hisatsugu when he used to go to school, Bailey Gatzert.

ET: Hisatsugu, nobody could pronounce it so they call him Frank. I mean, the teacher did, I think.

TH: Oh, but I remember him going to school always Hisatsugu.

YM: Fleezy, Popo, all kind of them. (Narr. note: Other nicknames include: Footsie, Gramps, Maximo, Bola, Gedunk, Monks, Shrink, Lover, Jumbo, Fat, Okie, Bonesy, Zipper, Mustard, Mud, Fudge, Horse, Taxie, Dyke, Halfy, Chick, Turk, Shadow, Conk, Punchy, Squeeky, Juggo, Digger, Beefo)

ET: Hippo.

DG: That's interesting. We will have to figure something out there about the names. That would be interesting. Okay. Thank you.

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