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Title: Frank T. Sata Interview II
Narrator: Frank T. Sata
Interviewer: Brian Niiya (primary); Bryan Takeda (secondary)
Location: Pasadena, California
Date: May 17, 2022
Densho ID: ddr-densho-1000-512-4

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BN: At some point, when did you meet Marian?

FS: When did I what?

BN: Meet Marian?

FS: Oh. Well, I was at SC, I was at Westridge School, and Bobby Uchida at Belfontaine Nursery, was a classmate from Gila. So when I first moved to Pasadena, it's natural that I met Bobby and a few others from camp. And when Marian and her family moved to North Pasadena near high school, Bobby knew them, the two sisters. That's how it is, the guys start looking for girls. And so he knew them, and he's the one that introduced me to them. He might have known Marian first, I don't know. And then he ended up liking her sister, and then there was one more available. [Laughs] So I got to meet her and I think that was after she had already been going around with another guy for a while. But after that, I kind of entered the picture in my big, blue convertible that she never cared about. Anyway, yeah, so that's how we met. It was probably about a (few) years before I graduated USC, or maybe... I graduated in '60, and so maybe it was '57 I met her. And then by then, she's going to... I could miss the years, but she was a student also at Cal State L.A. or at LACC. And then when they moved the campus, then she was also a song girl. He didn't me to say things like that, but that's fine. So we hung on, and she doing schoolgirl, you know, I can't remember the areas anyway, better side of town, hired girls to do the ironing and stuff. So we met there and we ended up getting married in '59 before I graduated. I graduated in '60.

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