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TI: And then back to you, so you're now Boyle Heights, you now still need to go to high school.

FK: Right.

TI: And so which high school do you go to now?

FK: Well, I went to Roosevelt for a couple of weeks until the crowd just kind of crashed in on me. I couldn't stand it, so when this new friend offered to find me a "domestic job" outside of the area, I asked my parents and they said, "Okay, go." In those days, you could get a job as, it was called "schoolgirl," for, I think it was twenty-five dollars a month, which covered streetcar fare, that's about it, room and board. And it was nice because it was indoor plumbing. [Laughs]

TI: That's another theme that comes up over and over again, indoor versus outdoor plumbing. So from Roosevelt, so when you went to schoolgirl, then you attended another high school.

FK: Hollywood High.

TI: So you really moved around to lots of high schools.

FK: Oh, yeah. It used to be at least two high schools every stop. In Fresno I went to two. In Fresno, aside from... that was Roosevelt High School also. They froze us out of that one area in Fresno, so we had to check out and go to Sanger Union High for two weeks, and they said, "Oh, we don't have to do that anymore, you could check out and go to Poston." And then Brighton High School in Colorado, and North High, and then... oh, where was I? Oh, Roosevelt, and then Hollywood High, only six.

TI: Okay. So you graduated from Hollywood High, and then what did you do after that?

FK: I went to L.A. City College.

TI: And what were you planning to study, or what did you study at L.A. City College?

FK: Elementary teaching.

TI: Oh, interesting.

FK: 'Cause I was a babysitter anyhow, so why not teach?

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