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RP: Did you take any trips to Lone Pine at all?

ES: To where?

RP: To Lone Pine?

ES: Yes, quite a few to Lone Pine. We'd go there to shop. I went to the movies a couple of times, went to some social there were Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers, they were filming, making a film in the Alabamas. Mostly there to shop or bank.

RP: Were there any occasion that you recall where maybe some of your students or any Japanese American asked you to go shopping for them or pick up any special item?

ES: Yes, I think there were a few times. I went a few times to the Spanish Gardens there in Lone Pine which was a bar but they had delicious T bone steaks. There was one time when a B24 crashed over here at the airport and nobody was injured. I only remember the plane being dug into the sand over there. But a group of us went with some of those air personnel, we went to the Spanish Gardens and had our T bone steaks and our martinis or whatever. That was something different.

RP: Did you get a chance to hike Mt. Whitney at all?

ES: I had hiked Mt. Whitney in 1940.

RP: When you were at UCLA?

ES: When I was at UCLA, yes. One summer after spending the summer in Tuolumne Meadows, on our way home my parents took us to Whitney Portal and then we... this friend of mine, the two of us climbed Mt. Whitney.

RP: Did you do that hike in a day or was it an overnight trip?

ES: We spent one night. We left from Whitney Portals and spent the night at the base camp. And then the next day we climbed Mt. Whitney and Mt. Mueller and then climbed down to Whitney Portals that same day. And then my friend left to go back to Tuolumne, she took the bus and went back to Tuolumne and then I went back to Huntington Park with my parents.

RP: Was there ever any occasion where you were invited into a student's barrack room?

ES: No, I was never in any of the students' rooms.

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