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RP: What do you recall about... your dad was involved with the Buddhist church.

YW: Uh-huh.

RP: And were, were your brothers and sisters going to Japanese school?

YW: Yes.

RP: Did you eventually, or were you, you were too young for that.

YW: I was too young because they started when they were six. And I think I got to go, or maybe from the time school started 'til the time we had to leave in March. So that would have been... school started in September. September, October, November, December, January, February... I got to go maybe six months but I don't remember anything.

RP: Your dad had a few sort of, I wouldn't call them hobbies, but things he did kind of to relax and you know, unwind a little bit.

YW: He liked the pool hall.

RP: He liked the pool hall.

YW: Yes.

RP: And where was the pool hall located?

YW: It must have been downtown. 'Cause I don't remember.

RP: That would be Niland or Brawley?

YW: We lived in Niland, so it'd be downtown Niland. 'Course he could have gone to El Centro, or Brawley. So I don't...

RP: Did, did those towns have a, have a Japanese community per se, like a Japantown? El Centro or Brawley?

YW: I'm sure they did, but you know, I don't remember. I don't remember that.

RP: He also like to play go too.

YW: I remember seeing him play go more in Colorado than in California. But I just knew that, I heard that he went to the pool hall often.

RP: Did he like his sake, too?

YW: You know, he didn't drink. If he drank he would drink on social, just to be social. Then his face would be all red. And my mom, she never drank. I don't know whether it was because she didn't like it or she was... I had an allergic condition to it. None of us, the children, drank. We didn't, I didn't like the taste of it. I didn't like the smell of it.

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