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RD: And how was it when you came out? Did you go back home?
AF: We went to Berkeley, we stayed at a church, and we there for a number of months, and then we went to the housing area, Richmond housing area in Richmond, California.
RD: So I didn't know there had been... oh, was it like a halfway house in Richmond?
AF: We lived in the church in Berkeley for a while and then we went to the... it was a housing for the ship workers. So that's where we went to.
RD: Oh, right. Some people went to Hunter's Point, and some people... so that's why they put them in the shipyards.
AF: The housing.
RD: And how many members were in your family?
AF: There were six besides our parents.
RD: Oh, then you were all in one room?
AF: Uh-huh.
RD: Wow. And did your parents, were they renters or did they own anything? Did they lose anything?
AF: No, we were renting, the home was being rented in Berkeley, so we didn't have a home to come back to. And so when we stayed at the church, we stayed there for a while and then went to the housing in Richmond and stayed there for a few years.
RD: And, you know, everybody had to give away their radios and everything.
AF: Yes, uh-huh.
RD: Did you have to give anything up?
AF: Oh, my father, my parents just left things there in the house. I don't remember... my father had a car and I don't remember what happened.
RD: Some people actually drove their cars to Santa Anita voluntarily.
AF: That's what I understand, yes.
RD: And the government burned them?
AF: I don't know what happened to all our belongings.
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