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BK: Well, can you describe the relationships between Japanese and the other... the Scandinavians, and American Indians, the natives?

JT: The relationships were, well, it was really... we didn't go, the families didn't go visiting or things like that very much. They just kind of kept among themselves. But they would go to the local stores and all that type of activity, and they'd go shopping and it was no, no problem. And they got along fine. And my dad had a, he was pretty, he was pretty capable in English and his handwriting was just beautiful and so he was, got along just fine. He loved to frequent the card parlors so he learned a lot, I think. Maybe it was not always good, but he learned a lot that way, too. And through photography, he was, since he was the only photographer in town, he did the school annual pictures. And he didn't put the book together, but he did all the annual pictures and any class pictures and things like that that was necessary, unless the teachers took them and he developed their films and things like that. But he did all the graduations and whatever, have you, the wedding and things like that, he would do. In the old days, they had, they didn't have too much portable stuff so they'd come down to the house to have their pictures taken, so, unless he took a little camera but he never usually went to the weddings. They came down with their finery and changed their clothes upstairs and had their portraits taken there.

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