Densho Digital Archive
Densho Visual History Collection
Title: Richard Murakami Interview
Narrator: Richard Murakami
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: South Bend, Washington
Date: May 12, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-mrichard-01-0032

<Begin Segment 32>

DG: Can we talk about your actually leaving now? What did you do?

RM: You mean leaving for camp?

DG: Your house, yeah.

RM: Well, we just tried to lease it out, I mean, the best we could. Did we find somebody? But I think somebody was taking care of our cranberries that was working for us and I think he's the one that, they're the one that took over. They didn't do very good though.

DG: So it was a fairly brand new house too that...

RM: Yeah.

DG: ...you were living in.

RM: Oh, sure.

DG: And so then you had to leave all this.

RM: Yeah.

DG: And you went where?

RM: We went to Tule Lake.

DG: Now, how did get there?

RM: Well, bus. I think -- let's see, how did we get... Anyway, it picked us up at Long Beach and closed all the blinds so we couldn't see where we were goin'. That's how we got...

DG: So did you sell quite a bit of your equipment and things? What did you do with your car?

RM: Well, I don't think we had any time to do any of that. We just had to leave everything and -- I forgot exactly, you know. I forgot about the car. I don't know what... let's see. What did we do with our car? I forgot.

DG: And you got on the bus and you went to Tule Lake.

RM: Uh-huh.

<End Segment 32> - Copyright © 1998 Densho. All Rights Reserved.