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JH: But let me start from saying that most of the people in this, in Seattle proper filled up the Puyallup Assembly Center so that everybody outside of the Seattle proper area had to go somewhere else. And so people from Tacoma and people from Yakima and people from the outlying areas, Bellevue even, ended up in the Pinedale Assembly Center, which is very near Fresno. In those days it was out in the country. I remember that there were fig trees outside the fence. And we went to the town of Auburn and we were loaded onto trains and I had never been on a train in my life. And here we were into real old cars, and we traveled overnight through Grants Pass and down to Fresno and then we were taken to the camp. I remember going over Grants Pass -- we were kind of cold, so that I borrowed a baby blanket from my aunt so that I could sleep during the night. And being kids, we sat together in groups and fooled around. Every time we went through a tunnel, for example, we would do things to other people. I remember painting mustaches on my friends' faces while they were sleeping while we were going through tunnels, things like that, we just fooled around as kids.

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