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TI: Okay, so now you go from the Pacific Northwest, Bellevue, and then you're taken to the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno.

GY: Yeah.

TI: So describe what Pinedale was like when you got there.

GY: Well, Pinedale, we found it was real hot and dry. Of course, when we got there, we were kids. I mean, I don't know how you would say it, but I think, camp, barracks are barracks, three or four families to a barrack, you know. Outside biffy, sit eight across or something like that. That was hot. I mean, we only stayed there only two months. And whatever happened, we helped out in the kitchen and stuff like that. Of course, I didn't help in the kitchen. I don't know how I got it, but I got a deal where I worked in the post office and delivered mail to different people. And from there, we went to Tule.

TI: But staying with Pinedale, do you recall, like, where people came from, the different cities or places at Pinedale?

GY: Pinedale, I think it was from the Northwest, but the outside of Seattle. Seattle people went to another assembly center, from there they went, came to Tule Lake. So most of the time we were all split up, but otherwise, I think it was all quiet, take it as it comes.

TI: Okay.

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