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BN: So how did it happen that she and your dad got married or met?

RM: Okay, yeah. Now, I noticed when I was looking at the immigration records, that my grandfather, can't remember the year, but they were living in Pescadero also. Now, what I know is that my uncle, my father's older brother, the fifth son, Satoji, his name is Satoji. It's funny that I called all my uncles ojisan, uncle, if they're older than my father. If they're younger than my father, I called them by their name. Like Nancy's father is Hachio. So I just called him Hachio-san or the youngest, number nine son was Hideichi, I just called him Hide-chan, you know, I called them by their name. But if they're older, I called them "Uncle." It's funny. But on my mother's side, I called them all by their names. I was always known as Bobby. From the time I was a kid, I was a Bobby. So even now, my oldest uncle and all my older cousins, they still call me Bobby like I'm still a child, but that's how it goes. But anyway, so my grandfather and my uncle was farming in Pescadero, and my grandfather was busy driving his produce to market. And it takes all day to do it, so my mother used to be, taking care of the fields and the workers while he was gone, and coming back and going to sleep. Well, my grandfather was, needed some help driving the produce, so one day he knew that there was a Moriguchi, so he asked them if he could help drive the truck on alternate days. And then my uncle noticed that there was this girl in the family, she was going to high school yet. And so he asked my grandfather, that he has a brother who needs to get married if it could be arranged. And so my mother said that one day a strange man arrived at the house. [Laughs] And that was how they met, and they had a baishakunin, a tailor in San Francisco named Enomoto, Enomoto. He had a tailor business on Gough Street on San Francisco just off of Japantown, and he was the baishakunin. So anyway, that's my parents' wedding picture.

BN: And then what year did they get married?

RM: I'm not sure, but I think it was around 1930. Yeah, I think it was around '30.

BN: And then we were talking earlier, your mom was only...

RM: Yeah, she was seventeen. I think she was seventeen when she got married.

BN: Your dad was...

RM: My dad was twenty-four.

BN: He was pretty young, too, then.

RM: Yeah.

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