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MA: So I'm curious about the strawberry farming. And in Watsonville during that time, was it pretty, how many people owned their, or operated their own farms like your father versus sharecropping?

CY: Most, lot of people were sharecropping, and a few independent like my father, so they could sell the berries anyplace. Like if you're sharecropping, they go to a certain, you know, company they have to sell. Like my brother used to sell it to all the stores in town. So they'd have fresh cash, it'd be all cash. So my father didn't go to the bank, he used to have it in a coffee can. [Laughs] Hidden around the house. So it was different days.

MA: So your father had more independence over what he could do.

CY: Uh-huh, yes.

MA: What was the name of your farm? Was there a name?

CY: There was no name, just, he just ran on his own, no particular name.

MA: And so the process was he would go around and sell strawberries to...

CY: To grocery stores. That's what my brother used to do it, sell it to the grocery stores.

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