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-01-0007

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TI: So fishing, swimming, you talked about baseball. What are some other...

WM: Basketball once in a while.

TI: And when you played these sports and did fishing and swimming, was it always with the same...

WM: Same guys, yeah.

TI: So tell me about that. Who were some of the, like the family names? Who were some of the boys that you played with?

WM: Adachi used to play, but he didn't come.

TI: So Adachi...

WM: And Toyama.

TI: Toyama.

WM: And Murakami. Lot of Japanese there. A lot of people die already.

TI: And then would your, would you do this with your brother, too? Like David, would he come along and play? Or is it just your friends?

WM: No, all friends together.

TI: And so with this group, were there, who was the oldest and who was the youngest? When you played, like, baseball, how, what kind of age range?

WM: About Louie's age.

TI: So how much older would that be?

WM: About couple years, I mean, me.

TI: And then how much younger would it be?

WM: David, about.

TI: Okay, so kind of like a, maybe four year...

WM: Yeah, I'm in the middle.

TI: ...range. Good.

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