Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Shigeo Kihara
Narrator: Shigeo Kihara
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Sacramento, California
Date: April 1, 2011
Densho ID: denshovh-kshigeo-01-0021

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RP: So your father shows up in his 1935 Buick and takes you all back to Gardena.

SK: Right.

RP: And you left camp.

SK: Right.

RP: And, so you spent a little time in Gardena and then...

SK: Then we drove back to... I went to school one or two years in Gardena, and then we all piled in the car and went to New Jersey.

RP: Tell us, tell us about that, that journey. It was cross country all the way and...

SK: I don't remember the traveling and going across to New Jersey. I don't know why. I don't remember that. But I remember coming back. But, the journey across from west to east, I don't remember too much about it.

Off Camera: Do you know, does he know what his father did?

RP: Did your dad, was your dad with you in Gardena very much? I think you said he went back to Oregon, didn't he?

SK: Yes, yeah. When, when he, when we went to Gardena he went up to Oregon and worked again. And I think he was gone for close to a year. But I'm not sure how long it was. I mean he spent a, quite a long time up there working on the farm. And then he came back. Because it, after he came back it wasn't much longer and then we went to New Jersey.

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