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Title: June Takahashi Interview
Narrator: June Takahashi
Interviewers: Beth Kawahara (primary), Larry Hashima (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: November 17, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-tjune-01-0027

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BK: During this time in camp, who lived in your particular unit? It was your mother...

JT: It was my mother and...

BK: And you.

JT: Yes, and where was my brother? He was there, too, 'cause he built, I remember he built a table. He's kind of like my father, he was pretty handy when he wanted to be. So he built a table for us, and that type of thing. And so whenever we could, we would cook a little bit extra, not extra, but something more to their taste if they were lucky enough to get the ingredients to do that. And in camp in Minidoka, if you got a pass, you were able to go outside to Jerome or Twin Falls for excursions or shopping. You were supposed to go out for just... well, I guess they just let you out if you were able to get a pass and that was the whole thing about it. It wasn't -- you could do whatever you wanted to. But I remember we just went out because we went to this No Delay Cafe which had chicken, really good chicken, so everybody would talk about that so we went out there to have chicken. But we didn't do that very often 'cause you got -- if you worked you got twelve dollars a month, I think it was. So, so it didn't go that far. But it was fun to get out there and get away. And so several of the people would do housework. Girls used to go to housework and they lived in and around Jerome. So that was nice, too, they were able get out. But I never went out for that type of thing. [Laughs] It was okay because a lot of them had sisters and the sisters would go out together and they had somebody to go with, and that worked out well for them.

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