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TI: So you were there for about a year.

LW: One year.

TI: And you said didn't like that, so you went from...

LW: Then I came back, then I went, a friend of mine was working at this Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, you know, high class hotel, with a, summer resort where the rich people goes.

TI: What was the name of it again?

LW: Broadmoor.

TI: Btroadmoor, okay.

LW: Colorado Springs, yeah. It's more like a tourist town. And all the people from Texas and New York, Jewish, rich Jewish people used to come.

TI: So was this kind of your first close connection with wealthy people, seeing all these wealthy people? Was that different for you?

LW: No. When I got here, that's what I heard, that they just come in during the summertime, three or four months, they stay at the hotel, then they go back to the... so I was working in the dining room and the room service. Well, I start off with busboy, you know, you got to learn the trade.

TI: And how did you get this job?

LW: Well, the friend, friend of mine was working there, and that time, there was a lot of Japanese people from our camp went to work in the golf course, the Isseis. And the job, only thing, job we got at the hotel was the busboy, not a top job, but you work your way up there. So then you could be a waiter, and I was working the room service for a while. Then if I stayed longer, I could have been head maitre 'd or something like that. But that wasn't, no life to it.

TI: And so how long did you do this?

LW: Off and on, about ten years.

TI: At the same place?

LW: Yeah, same place.

TI: Okay.

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