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RP: Did you, did you go on any of those trips to Denver to, to bring produce?

AW: Oh, yes. Of course, this is, as a youngster, we all wanted to go, mainly because this way we don't have to stay home and weed, I think. [Laughs] And so it was a treat for us to go to Denver. Of course, the consequence of going to Denver is that if they had a truckload of cabbage, for example, it was a lot of work to unload those cabbage one by one, and people on the other end did not help you unload, you had to unload. So we had to do all the unloading, and we put it into bags over there. But eventually, I noticed that after I left, they would do all the bagging there on the farm and they would just haul it by bags. So the procedure had changed since I left the farm.

RP: You, you should have done what Gladys Konishi's dad did. He'd send Gladys, you know, to haul the produce so her being a woman, they naturally would unload the truck for her.

AW: Right, uh-huh. Unfortunately, didn't quite work with us with ten boys and two girls. The girls were spoiled in our family. My sisters don't agree with me on that, but...

RP: So, you're in Denver and you have the opportunity to maybe... sample the, the attractions of the town a little bit?

AW: No, no. We went straight to the packing house or wherever we delivered the cabbage to and about the only thing that we looked forward to was the, the fellows that would have these little carts selling tamales. And so that's what we looked forward to in terms of the Denver cuisine. And then as soon as we did that we were back at home working,

RP: Did you ever visit, was there a Japantown in Denver during the days when you were growing up on the farm?

AW: Well, I know that Delarma Street was the site where a lot of people of Japanese ancestry were in the area, but I knew very little about it. Because, being in the rural area, we didn't come into town.

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