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RP: Bob, you... this farm neighbor where you worked with your brother on the farm, you said that he was also from Yuba City, originally?

BF: You mean my brother?

RP: I'm sorry, the other, the neighbor you farmed by.

BF: Oh, yeah. They were a family named Hoshiko. And we knew them before, before camp. They lived in Yuba City, had a son and three daughters, I believe. So, we, we were lucky to have them nearby where we could go, go bathe on Saturday.

RP: Did they, they left Amache before you went out on your leave there?

BF: Yeah. There was a, a process whereby one could leave, leave the camp. It was a lengthy process and so people left for a variety of reasons. You could leave for school, you could leave for the military, you could leave for jobs, menial types of things. Girls would go out and become housekeepers or stuff. And there were two different kinds of leaves, short term and long term or indefinite. Short term leaves you could, you could leave the camp for, for... like people would go out to help harvest sugar beets or harvest peaches or something like that. I remember one time my brother left the camp to, to work at the Broadmoor Hotel.

RP: Where's that located?

BF: In Colorado Springs. It's a very...

RP: Upscale?

BF: Upscale -- it still is -- hotel.

RP: Which brother?

BF: I had two brothers, George went there to work and Torao left for work there. My brother George worked as, on the grounds, like groundskeeper. My brother Tosh left to work in the kitchen and when he came back he said, he said, "You know, my job was to make peanut butter sandwiches." Among other things, I guess. But he said he made these peanut butter sandwiches and he said they were charging what he thought was, was a terrible price to, to the patrons. They didn't, they didn't work long there, at the Broadmoor. And those were called short term leaves. The indefinite leave, leaves were those where they said, "Okay, I'm going and I'm not coming back."

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