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Title: Martha Nishitani Interview
Narrator: Martha Nishitani
Interviewer: Sara Yamasaki
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: May 15, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-nmartha-01-0021

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SY: So you returned to the Lake City place after Caldwell? Is that right?

MN: Yes.

SY: Did you notice a change in the way clients or neighbors responded to you after having been in camp?

MN: Well, no. There were some that were very friendly. They came to visit right away. But there wasn't too much retail business going on, because we couldn't -- they weren't able to get oil to run the boilers because it all went for war efforts. So in the summertime, they raised cucumbers and tomatoes in the greenhouse, and took 'em down to Pike Place Market for sale. But, so, there wasn't an awful lot of business.

SY: Was the property changed at all?

MN: No, but the greenhouses were, we started to raise plants again, in the greenhouses.

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