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Title: Chizuko Norton Interview
Narrator: Chizuko Norton
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: April 27, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-nchizuko-01-0010

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AI: Well, now this must have been as you were growing up, you say, starting in about the fifth grade and progressing on as you got older. And sometime along this time, did you move to a different place?

CN: Uh-huh.

AI: When was that?

CN: When I was in the second grade, I think it was, that we moved, no, no, no. Excuse me. We moved from, we called it Peterson Hill then. We moved from there when I was in the fifth grade because all this business about if a man or boy should touch your knees and that kind of thing took place there. And that was just off 405 about five or six blocks from Eighth. And we lived there for a short time, and then -- I mean, very short time, and then we moved to Kirkland. (Narr. note: We lived on Peterson Hill while I was in second grade. In the fifth grade, I attended Bellevue grade school.)

AI: And was there a particular reason? Did you know why you made these moves?

CN: I think my mother and dad decided that they would like to run greenhouses and raise flowers rather than vegetables, though, they did raise vegetables, too. They raised cucumbers and tomatoes, but not, not the strawberries and all the other back-breaking work. Strawberries and cauliflower and cabbages and all where they, each one had to be tend to individually. I remember that.

AI: Were you, did you have some of that yourself, responsibilities on the farm in the early days, the vegetables?

CN: Uh-huh. Not so much the vegetables. I remember having my own vegetable garden and how proud I was that my cabbage and cauliflower were much larger than the ones that my parents grew. [Laughs] But we had to make -- we called it "pounding boxes" -- make, make boxes for the tomatoes and other vegetables that they could pack to take to the commission houses and all.

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