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DG: Now, when you...

NS: And so we had the interest in the oyster company, and my brother worked there. My brother, Harry, worked there and my brother George also worked for a little bit there, but my brother Harry was there until he died.

DG: Okay. Now, we are talking about the New Washington Oyster Company that's out in Willapa Bay in southern Washington.

NS: That's right. But we sold our...

DG: And your father died in 193...?

NS: '36.

DG: '36, okay. So until he died he (was with) the Jackson Fish Company in Seattle and then the New Washington Oyster Company.

NS: Well, New Washington Oyster Company had its own organization, but he sold the oysters from the other company.

DG: And that was in your name?

NS: The interest was in my name. The stock was in my name.

DG: And you said you went to some of the board meetings.

NS: I drove him. I was the driver and I had to go to the meetings.

DG: What kind of things did you discuss? Do you remember any of it?

NS: I don't remember any of it because mostly it was business and how much they did or how much they didn't do, things like that.

DG: So then the Jackson Fish Company here in Seattle, was that just leased?

NS: Huh?

DG: Was the property leased?

NS: No, they bought the property here. But my mother was paid a certain amount when my father died. And so she sold it to the Kanazawas; Kanazawa was the partner.

DG: So they had a -- was he a Nisei?

NS: Kanazawa?

DG: So that he could buy property?

NS: No, but he had children.

DG: Okay.

NS: So that it might have been in the children's name.

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