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DG: Well there weren't that many Japanese up in the Bellingham area, so did you have, did you have picnics like.

FN: Yeah, oh yeah, we did get together quite often. Uh-huh.

DG: With.

FN: In, when we were in Mt. Vernon there was a Japanese there, a bachelor that had a small farm. I don't know what exactly what he was doing. But he did have a small farm. But we did get together with people from Bellingham too that my, my folks had made friends with, you know. They...

DG: Oh, that's right, you said that North Coast people.

FN: Yeah, in those days there was the interurban, interurban that came from Bellingham to Mt. Vernon.

DG: Oh, is that a bus?

FN: No, interurban, you know, trolley.

DG: Oh, a trolley, oh, oh.

FN: They don't, they call them interurbans then. In those days they didn't call them trolleys.

DG: Oh...okay.

FN: But that's the way that we traveled when we wanted to go to Mt. Vernon or to Bellingham. But...

DG: Did they have tulips there in those days?

FN: Tulips? Yeah, they had tulips.

DG: They did then too.

FN: We grew more tulips in the Bellingham area. But we did have picnic and we, I don't know how, what kind of. I guess we all jumped in the back of a truck and went to even to Mt. There's a Baker lake that we called it. It's east of Sedro Wooley and that area, we used to go. So, we did, did quite a bit travel, but how we did it, but I don't know. [Laughs] But of course just traveling back and forth from the farm it was horse and buggy too. [Laughs] Hard to think about that.

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