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DG: Okay, so how long were you at the assembly center in Puyallup?

KS: Two months.

TS: Ah, from May.

KS: May till the first of August.

TS: The first of August, yeah.

DG: You were one of the first ones to go to...?

TS: To Hunt.

DG: Hunt?

TS: That's area 14? Block 14.

KS: Block 14.

TS: And uh...

KS: One of the first trains that went. There was a whole trainload that went.

TS: To a large barracks room.

DG: So you had a lot of free time, time to get to know each other.

KS: Correct.

TS: Well, we spent a lot of time making furniture.

DG: Really?

TS: Raiding the...

KS: This was after we got to Hunt.

TS: Hunt lumber pile and dining room, dining room kitchens where they had supplies of nails and sneak in there at night to appropriate.

KS: Well these barracks that we moved into, you have to remember, they were bare. Absolutely. It was just walls and cots and a little pot bellied stove and that's all you got. There were no shelves to put anything. No chairs to sit on. If there... just about everybody that has been in camp eventually had homemade chairs, homemade tables, homemade shelves. The people who may never have made any furniture before they went into camp, became real artisans at making furniture, because none of that was provided and like Toru says, the lumber and nails had to be appropriated. I don't think they felt they were stealing. They were just using what was there because they needed it. And this is when we first went into camp.

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