Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Fred Nagai Interview
Narrator: Fred Nagai
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: May 10, 2011
Densho ID: denshovh-nfred-01-0018

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RP: There was another job that you had for a short time at Manzanar and that was working to help build a garden in the camp.

FN: Yeah, uh-huh.

RP: Block 34, tell me, how did that come about?

FN: I really don't remember too much but they had to make a mound so I drove a tractor to make the mound and I really don't remember too much. I mean, I never did the finishing job on it. But, yeah, in the camp you just jumped around from one job to the other.

RP: And did you use the tractor to do anything else?

FN: Huh?

RP: Did you use the tractor to do anything else?

FN: No.

RP: Just the, work the mound.

FN: Just that, yeah. That's about all I remember about the tractor.

RP: So you, you dug out the pond area and then put the dirt on the top of the mound? Something like that.

FN: I guess so. Yeah.

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