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Lucy Ostrander: What was the Japanese American community like before the war, in general? What sorts of things, cultural activities...

DG: Did you hear that? No?

AS: I didn't hear.

DG: Lucy wants to know about the Japanese community before the war, did you... other than farming and working, were there other social events that you did and attended?

AS: There was a lot of families here then. Wasn't there about fifty families? I think about fifty families, yeah. And you want to know about what?

DG: Like social, non-work related things. Social events, church, picnics...

AS: Yeah, they had a church there. We had a church down there in Winslow. Was it Hirakawa? Hirakawa, he was a... they did quite a bit of church things before the war. Then after the war it was disappeared more or less. Was nobody here, I mean. Did you talk to any of the Nakatas?

DG: We have not recently.

LO: Gerry.

DG: Oh, that's right, okay. Gerry Nakata. We did.

AS: Huh?

DG: We interviewed Gerry Nakata last February. So...

AS: See, he knows quite a bit, too. You know, he's same age as I am, about, so he knows quite a bit, too. And then there's Tad Sakuma, too. You know him? He know, he should know.

DG: I've talked with his son.

AS: Yeah. Oh, did you?

DG: Yes.

AS: I don't know none of his boys.

DG: That's a separate Sakuma family, right? Those are two separate families? Yes, and I think the Kato family, I think they farmed or they worked on the eastside in Bellevue, I think?

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