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RP: How about, while we were looking at the photographs, you mentioned that each block had a barrack for the bachelors.

AF: Oh, yes, yes.

RP: Most of 'em were Kibeis?

AF: Yes, that's right.

RP: So there was one in 14?

AF: Yes, oh, yes. I remember.

NN: Were they around, near our place?

AF: Oh, yeah, uh-huh.

NN: Close to our barrack, you mean?

AF: Oh, yeah. You don't remember, but I remember.

RP: How about the Yogores?

NN: Yogores? That was San Pedro. You guys wouldn't know about...

AF: That was your age, yeah, yeah.

NN: Gosh, I remember the name, but I can't remember anything about them.

AF: They weren't really bad or anything.

NN: There was Tagu, a guy named Tagu.

AF: Except they were from the fishing village.

NN: In San Pedro.

AF: They were not as Americanized as us, I remember. That's all I know about them. So they used to speak Japanese all the time, and not too much English like we did.

RP: Some people said they were too "Japanesey."

AF: Yeah. Because they were from a little island, I think.

RP: Terminal Island?

AF: Terminal Island, yeah. And so they were sort of isolated, probably.

RP: You mentioned a name or two there.

NN: Well, I was just asking her, there was an Ichi Takahashi who -- I thought he was, he's from the San Pedro area.

AF: Yeah, yeah, he was.

NN: He was in Manzanar, thought.

AF: Oh, no, I don't think so.

NN: No? She says no, but maybe --

KT: I don't remember.

AF: That was after we came back. Yeah, he was our friend.

NN: Oh, and was Tagu afterwards then? Was he in Manzanar?

AF: Yeah, I think Tagu was probably, he was a little bit younger.

KT: I remember the name, but I don't remember the person.

NN: It was right after the war. There would, all these guys would come over to the house with the sisters, beautiful sisters. Or the west L.A. boys would come over. [Laughs]

RP: That didn't happen in camp? Would boys come over to your barrack room?

AF: No, we didn't have...

KT: You really didn't have anywhere to socialize.

NN: But right after the war, these guys would come over, and my mom would feed them steak, had them stay for dinner, feed them steak.

AF: Oh, you remember that?

NN: They were fed well.

RP: "Stay a while."

KT: She was a very friendly person, huh?

NN: She was, she was.

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