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DG: Did you have a social life at all during those times?

KS: Oh yes.

DG: Was that with the hakujins or Japanese?

KS: That's when I first started going to the Japanese Congregational Church. That's because Mrs. Murphy was connected there. She said well, you get a day off and the day off will be Sunday and you come down here and I'll bring you to church. And so I went, that's how I got started with the Japanese Congregational Church and met quite a few Japanese kids. I didn't know very many until then and they were very friendly and very nice. I went to Roosevelt where there were very few Japanese but the few that were there I got to know quite well and I even played basketball with some of them.

DG: They had a Japanese group that played basketball?

KS: The girls came from Roosevelt, Lincoln and...

DG: Who did you play?

KS: This was the Courier League. Then we'd go down to the Japanese Baptist Church and play basketball.

DG: Oh, that was...

KS: So it was...

DG: Who fed you those times?

KS: Pardon me?

DG: You didn't go out to restaurants to eat?

KS: Well, I ate where I worked.

DG: You probably couldn't afford to...

KS: Oh no, we couldn't... no, oh no, no.

DG: Did you ever go to movies or anything like that?

KS: Yes, movies were ten or fifteen cents to go to a movie. So on Sundays, which was my day off, with various friends, we'd go see a movie.

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