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Title: Chris Kato - Yoshi Mamiya - Tad Sato Interview
Narrators: Chris Kato, Yoshi Mamiya, Tad Sato
Interviewer: Stephen Fugita
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: August 14, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-kchris_g-01-0013

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CK: Then right on Lane Street between -- I mean, Weller Street on, between 5th and 6th Avenue, like I was telling you, there was a big, empty lot we used to call Yutaka ground --

TS: Oh.

CK: Where we played softball and baseball there. All the Japanese kids that were living in that area, they would form teams, and then just have a game on weekends, or during the summer it was almost every day.

TS: Yeah.

YM: There was a lot next to you, where, where your dad's store was.

TS: Yeah, up there on Maynard and Main Street.

YM: (Yes). I played baseball there.

TS: Yeah. We fixed it up. Then the girls had to come, and they all wanna play hopscotch and stuff in there, too.

SF: Were there any other groups --

TS: That was a gravel road up there all the way.

YM: Oh, (yes). All the way up --

TS: Yeah.

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