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WH: How did you first meet Dorothea Lange?

DT: Dorothea Lange, she came, she was taking pictures for the, for a documentary. And just before we were to be evacuated, she came to our home, and Alice met her and saw her. Then after that, she came, we met her again in, I guess, in camp. And then after the war, we got -- her husband was a professor of economics, Dr. Taylor.

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DT: Yeah, she came and photographed my wife in the kitchen on the Buchanan Street house before evacuation, then after that it was about, during the evacuation, and then after the war, they invited Professor Taylor, her husband, who was my professor in econ, economics. And so they invited us for dinner there at the home in Berkeley, my kids all went, too, you know. And then we had them here for a sukiyaki dinner one night. Caleb Foote, the fellow that rented our home during the war, he was a Fellowship of Reconciliation fellow, conscientious objector. But he was a professor later at Cal, and hope, I haven't seen him for ages now. And then we had another couple, a professor at San Jose State, here that night, to, with this wife, Dorothy. I remember that.

WH: Did you ever see Dorothea Lange's photographs of you and your wife?

DT: Well, I don't recall her taking both of us together. I think it was my wife cooking in the kitchen or something, and I don't, I'm not sure.

WH: So you, perhaps you've never seen those images.

DT: Yeah, maybe not. But there's so many things that have happened, that we don't keep track of everything. So, if I was more of a historian, I guess I would, but been too busy. You know, I traveled not only 200,000 miles for the Y, but we had an RV until two years ago. Went to seven of 'em, four trailers and three RVs, and we drove to all the way, all around the United States with our dog, who was at that time, couldn't see anything, through twenty-six states and Canada, in an RV.

WH: And I hear you like to dive, too.

DT: And then we did diving. Besides that, twenty-six trips overseas diving. So can you imagine, all the things, and trying to run the store? [Laughs] But life is what you make it.

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