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TI: You know, something I didn't ask, at Hilo, in terms of different races... so you had the large Japanese community, what other type of communities were in Hilo before...

HH: It's kind of spread out. We kind of, where we were, mostly Japanese, so you don't have that much day to day contact with the other nationality.

TI: But if you did have, so there weren't --

HH: They were okay. They didn't...

TI: But what were the other nationalities, or ethnic groups, in Hilo?

HH: Portuguese, Filipino, Chinese, Korean -- Koreans always... they go by race. The Koreans always had rental units. They had apartments. The Portuguese had all kinds of stuff, but they were renters. They raised cows. Each group had something.

TI: And how about whites? Were there very many whites in Hilo?

HH: No, not, not... well, all the whites were rich, and then you had kind of segregated. The rich houses stayed at, most of their homes were up in the nice area, but they were all there. And then we had lower kind of housing. But they had to, my parents had their own home on leased property. It wasn't nice, but it was their own.

TI: Good.

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