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LH: Weren't some actually Indians brought down, too?

JT: Yeah, they were. There was this one family -- well, I don't know if the family, it was just the boys and I think their name was Foode, F-O-O-D-E. And I think their mother was Japanese and they were part Eskimo, and part Japanese and they looked pretty Eskimo to me. [Laughs] But they had to come down, I don't know why, there were three, two that I remember, and I think there was a third one. But one was a pretty good-looking kid and I remember all the girls were kind of... you know.

BK: Ga-ga?

JT: Yeah, ga-ga over him.

LH: Did the mother come down with them?

JT: No, that's the funny part of it. Only the boys came down. Maybe there wasn't a mother and father anymore, is what I was thinking. 'Cause they were just young guys by themselves, and one was pretty burly. But this one kid was a pretty good-looking guy. He looked more Hispanic than anything else to me. He was dark and pretty handsome but I know several, several girls that were chasing him. [Laughs] And I don't know, I think they probably went back to Alaska. I don't know, ever know what happened to them.

BK: Because, were they held very long in Puyallup?

JT: In Puyallup, and then I don't know what happened to them after Puyallup was closed. That's the part I really don't know. And I never heard of them again. And then there was Bill Sato and his sister Mabel and they were, they appeared to me more... Bill looked more Indian to me, his father, of course, was Nihonjin. And Mabel, she was almost kind of olivey skinned and different. She was quite... not a really beautiful girl, but an attractive person, very quiet where Bill was big and... big. Unlike a Japanese, he was tall and thin and boisterous, just a really fun guy. And I think they went back to Alaska. She, I think, is in Europe, married a professor or something like that, and she's very smart. She's in France, as I understand it, but Bill, I don't know where he is. I think, kind of think he's in Alaska again. That was interesting. I haven't seen them forever. And then the Kimura family lived in Anchorage and they're back there again, too, as I understand it. They had a dry cleaning shop, I think, and maybe a laundry, too, a pretty large laundry in Alaska.

BK: So were you all in Puyallup?

JT: Yeah, they were all in Puyallup, uh-huh. They were all in Puyallup together.

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