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GB: My sister and I, we grew up... from the time she was born, after camp was over, we went to Hunt, Idaho, and my dad worked in an ammunition dump there for about a year. Because we didn't have any money to come back to Seattle, and he just barely eked a living there. And from there we moved to Nebraska where he got a job where he was able to save some money to buy a car to come back to Seattle. That was the option. Now, I don't know if this man was Jewish or not, because I was never told by my parents, nationality-wise, whether... I know by his name, I think "Greene" is a very popular name for Jewish people. And this man was named Paul Greene. And he was an insurance agent for my dad. And when the war broke out, he, without saying anything, telling my dad, my dad had a policy with him. He paid premiums all the time, he didn't know, I don't know if he even knew if my dad was still alive, to be honest with you. But anyway, so we went to camp in '42 or whatever it was, and when we got back to Seattle it was '47, '48, I think, when we finally got enough money to get a car to come back. Well, this Mr. Paul Greene was, I can't believe that a man would do this. But we had, like I say, my dad had this Togo Store on Third on James Street. We had counters, I don't know what you call them, cabinets that had glass in it, and we had four cabinets that were saved by this Mr. Greene also. And I don't know where he stored it, but he must have had an area to put all this in. And he had stored all this thing for my dad, paid the premium, he didn't even know that he was doing this. When we got back, I guess my dad made contact with him and he found out what was, that he had done all this. And like I say, he worked as a, when he got back, he worked as a manager of the St. George Apartments which is on Fourteenth and Yesler Street, that's where St. George is. After a couple years of working there and making contact with Mr. Greene again, Mr. Greene says, "You know, this policy is, premium is insured, and you can draw money from it." And that money that was drawn from that policy that was paid for by Mr. Greene through all these years, that's what started Linc's Tackle. He had enough money to put down to buy, it was actually a little grocery store, small area. I mean, it was probably no bigger than this room here. That's the original store of Linc's.

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