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MN: What memories do you have of the Okayama Kenjinkai picnics?

MS: They, we had an annual picnic in the summer, and we looked forward to them because they had races and things like that, games and were giving out prizes to the winners, so we enjoyed them and we kept going. But, but it was only a short time span.

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MN: We were talking about the Okayama Kenjinkai picnics.

MS: Yeah.

MN: Where were they held at?

MS: Azusa Canyon. Most of the time, the one I remember.

MN: How many people used to come out?

MS: Oh, several hundred, I guess. Yeah, we had a lot of races with all the kids. I'm just imagining it. I don't really know.

MN: It was a lot of people.

MS: Yeah.

MN: How about Brighton Beach? Did your family take trips to Brighton Beach?

MS: Yeah, on hot summer days we... Brighton Beach was a sort of an attraction point for the Japanese community, so, it was on Terminal Island, so we looked forward to the automobile trip ride down there, and the beaches there. And the, my sisters and their friends used to have beach parties, weenie bakes and things like that, but I was too young to...

MN: Did you interact with the Japanese American Terminal Islanders there?

MS: Did we mingle?

MN: Yeah.

MS: No, not at that time, but because of my father's business, I guess he did, with the fishermen. But the children, never, until the war started and the Terminal Island people had to move out, then we met quite a few. They, they moved into Boyle Heights.

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