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FK: So how did you get around in those days -- was it easy to get around? Or how did you get around if you, like going to school, or if you wanted to meet with friends and so forth, how did you get around?

TM: Well, jumped in the car, I guess. We had Model Ts in them days. [Laughs]

TM: So did most everybody have a car or just certain people had cars?

TM: Yeah, eventually all the farmers had cars, I guess, trucks. They had to have it. Nobody... there was horse and buggy, but they seldom hitched up the horse and buggy year-round, unless you were gonna haul something.

FK: So were most of your friends, then, people of Japanese descent, or did you have Caucasian friends? What did you as far as, in grade school, or before you got to high school when you played or anything, tell me about your friends.

TM: I didn't have many Caucasian friends that I stuck around with. I stayed home. My older brother Mort used to hang around with a bunch of no-good little punks, always getting in trouble.

FK: What kind of trouble would they get into?

TM: [Laughs] Oh... they used to smoke, anyway, that's one thing they shouldn't have been doing.

FK: So did you get into any activities in high school or anything like that?

TM: No... oh yeah, my brother used to belong to the Backwoods Club, you know, used to sneak off in the woods there when they were at recess or lunchtime or something.

FK: Now, did you mother and father both run the farm then, when you, when you were growing berries?

TM: Yes, as far as I know.

FK: When you were, when you were growing up, who seemed to be the most influence in your life, your mother or your father?

TM: [Laughs] Well, I don't know. My father, I guess, while he was alive. But he didn't live very long; he died in 1927. He was only about, a little over fifty when he died. And then after 1927, my mother ran the farm which wasn't very big.

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