Densho Digital Archive
Preserving California's Japantowns Collection
Title: Walter N. Matsuoka Interview
Narrator: Walter N. Matsuoka
Interviewers: Tom Ikeda (primary); Jill Shiraki (secondary)
Location: Sacramento, California
Date: December 9, 2009
Densho ID: denshovh-mwalter-01-0033

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TI: So let me talk about your family now. So when did you get married?

WM: '68. No. '78, huh? No, '68. Second marriage.

TI: Second marriage.

WM: First (one), I didn't have kids. '68, see. Huh?

TI: '69.

WM: '59?

TI: '69.

WM: '69, see? I knew that --

TI: Okay, 1969. And before we go there, let's talk about your parents. So do you remember when your father died?

WM: '68, and my mother died '74. That year, but I forget now.

TI: And okay, so your parents died pretty close, 1968, 1974. And so you had a first marriage, and then a second marriage, did you have any children?

WM: First one I didn't have it, second one I had (...).

TI: And how many?

WM: One. One was enough, man, spoiled. [Laughs]

TI: So one child. Good. So that's the end of my questions. Is there anything else that maybe I didn't ask that you'd like to talk about? Like a memory or a story or anything else?

WM: No thanks.

TI: This was really, really helpful.

WM: If you want to know, Louie know everything. [Laughs]

TI: Yeah, I interviewed --

WM: Sometimes it's mistake.

JS: [Laughs] That's why we had to check with you.

TI: Yeah, so it's good for us to ask many people about it, then we have more information to do this. Good, okay. Well, so Walter, thank you so much for taking the time.

WM: Okay, thank you.

TI: This was really excellent.

JS: Uh-huh, thank you.

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