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TI: So why did you move from Colton to the Redlands?

GS: 'Cause my parents got tired of cutting hair, 'cause their hands were getting arthritic and stuff like that. And then my brother-in-law had a grocery store in Riverside, so he says, "Why don't you buy a grocery store, fruit stand in Redlands?" So there's one place opened up and had a fruit stand, so we had opened the fruit stand up and then we almost, and bought a meat case, and we had a, Ken would be the butcher, so we had a butcher shop. And then my older brother went to Vista to work with my cousins that were in Vista, farming, and then he would help them, and then he would play ball in Vista. And then me and Ken and my other younger brothers would help in the grocery store in the meat market. Then we start, started to learn how to become butchers and grinding up hamburgers and stuff like that. And then worked in fruit stand, putting vegetables and fruits display up.

TI: And in Redlands, who were your customers? Who came to the store?

GS: All areas, the homes around that area would come to the store and buy, 'cause we had fresh meat. There was a Piggly Wiggly store, chain, two blocks away, they didn't bother us 'cause we had fresher meats and everything, and our fruits were fresher than what Piggly Wiggly could put out.

TI: Okay, so this was a larger chain.

GS: Larger chain.

TI: And even though they were larger and their prices were about, lower or about the same?

GS: About the same.

TI: But you had these loyal customers because they knew that you'd have fresher fruits.

GS: Everything's fresher.

TI: And what was the name of your store?

GS: Ken's Market.

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