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TI: So let's go back to you, so now you're living with your uncle and aunt in the Central District.
BS: Central District.
TI: And so what are some early childhood memories?
BS: After my mom died, the first actual memory that I have living with my aunt and uncle, we lived in an apartment on Ninth and Spruce. That's where Seattle Housing Authority is. We were displaced out of that apartment, Ninth and Spruce, by the Seattle, Yesler Terrace. And living in that building, it had to be right before the war -- I don't know, I was a young kid -- but this, one of the neighbors brought me to Nippon Kan for one of the stage... and I just remember this guy in this white face coming out on the stage. It actually scared the shit out of me, right? And I'm a little kid, and I didn't enjoy that production that was going on, and when she wanted to bring me back to the theater for another production, play, II refused to go 'cause I remembered that guy and that white mask or makeup. And that area there is where the Japanese community, that's where, from the International District, from Main Street all the way up to Twenty-third Avenue, became the Japanese community, so we lived in that neighborhood. And when we were displaced out of the construction of Yesler Terrace we rented an apartment on Fourteenth and Spruce, right across from the youth center. So there's an apartment, the building is still there. It's a block north of the old Washington Hall. So my memories of growing up there are a little bit more, I can remember a little bit more. We were sent to Maryknoll School 'cause my aunt and uncle, our family was Catholic, so we went to this mission school called Maryknoll School.
TI: And before, I'm gonna ask a lot more about that, but so before we go there, earlier you talked about how weekends, whenever you could, you would go visit your dad.
BS: That would be later on, after nineteen, after 1945.
TI: Okay, so then let's --
BS: To the '40s and particularly after '45 when he lost his eyesight.
TI: I see, okay.
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