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TI: So let's move on. So you were in Amache, you said you went to Chicago. Why did you decide to go to Chicago?
EI: Not much. I didn't decide anything too much. Just go around and came back to Granada and helped at the outside grocery store, and the store owner, I was taking over running my business. I work over there few months, he'd like me to run the place. So I bought the place with my brother Richard, run the place for a few, maybe one year or so.
TI: And this is in Colorado? This is in Denver area?
EI: Denver, and then we moved to Denver.
TI: Okay, wait, let me make sure I understand this. So... or is this, oh, in Granada, okay. So let me summarize here. So from Amache, from the Granada camp, you went to Chicago just for a little bit, worked for the Libby company, but then you came back to Granada and did a store with Richard for about a year. And who were your customers at Granada, the town, who were your customers?
EI: Oh, customer is the local people who worked in the relocation center, the Caucasians. And mostly Japanese people from the camp, they come and buy fruit and vegetable, something good.
JS: So some people were still in camp.
EI: Yeah.
JS: But you were running the store.
EI: Outside the gate.
JS: Outside the gate in the town.
EI: Yeah.
TI: And so what I've heard is, it was pretty easy for people inside camp to go to the town, Granada, and do shopping and then go back to camp. And so that's... that's kind of an interesting situation there.
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