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TL: Do you remember any instances of discrimination that either Clarence or you faced, that were difficult?

YB: You know, we used to go to the Coliseum Theater and they have... what do they call it? "Nigger heaven"; that's the bad way to use it, but way up on the....

TL: Balconies?

YB: High balconies. But they would put us in the real comfortable area where we liked to sit. And we had -- Pastor Okazaki was one of our first pastors at the (Japanese) Baptist church, his son was a very close friend of Clarence's. And Clarence just says, "What are you doing Bob?" He says, "Oh, nothing." "Okay, come on. We're gonna' go see a special movie at the Coliseum." So he'd bring Bob along. And we had never had any problem. When Bob was there, they sat us in another area. Clarence got kinda' upset about that. I told him, "What's wrong? What happened?" And they either didn't want him there, or whatever. He didn't look that Oriental. He used to be in the movies all the time, so he shouldn't. But evidently, it was Clarence and I, we always got in. Nobody ever said anything to us. So it's getting used to an individual and knowing them too is another thing, I guess.

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