Densho Digital Archive
Japanese American Film Preservation Project Collection
Title: Dave Tatsuno Interview II
Narrator: Dave Tatsuno
Interviewer: Wendy Hanamura
Location: San Jose, California
Date: May 17, 2005
Densho ID: denshovh-tdave-03-0013

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WH: What made you go back to Topaz in 1955? I would think you wouldn't want to see that place again.

DT: Oh, no. I think we went back three times to Topaz. The last one was about three years ago, when my son came here from Sun Valley, Idaho. We picked up our motor home and went to Sun Valley, and went to visit his son at the university in Colorado. And on the way, we stopped at Topaz one night and looked at the place. New monument. Other, the nice other monument they destroyed, so they put a new flat monument. So I have a video of that.

WH: What brought you back in 1955?

DT: Well, I think it was curiosity with my family, just to look at the place.

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