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Title: Richard Murakami Interview
Narrator: Richard Murakami
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: South Bend, Washington
Date: May 12, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-mrichard-01-0012

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DG: And then at the same time he started developing cranberries, okay. Do you know how he thought of that or why got into that?

RM: Cranberries? Well, I think, let's see, now, I had that written in that story about, but...

DG: Well, now is oysters a seasonal thing?

RM: Oysters is seasonal, yeah. So is cranberries.

DG: So maybe he wasn't busy all year with the oysters and so he had time to do something else?

RM: Well, that could have been, yeah. I don't know exactly why he got into...

DG: Now, when was it that you bought property? When did you build your house? Do you remember?

RM: Oh, the house. Gosh, I don't know, must have been in the '20s.

DG: In the 1920s and so you would have been like what, ten?

RM: Something like that, yeah.

DG: Now, he worked for the MacGowans for maybe like ten or twelve years. So then he was saving money all that time.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: So that would have brought you to like 1922, '24.

RM: Yes, in that area.

DG: And then he bought some property?

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: Now, aliens couldn't own property.

RM: Yeah, so we had to have a guardian. His name was Mr. Dupay and he had a hardware store, and that's what our connection was. We bought quite a few stuff and so he helped us on that end of it.

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