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RP: Tell us a little bit about the evacuation of your family from Montebello. You were sent to Pomona Assembly Center, right?

MN: Right, right. And I don't remember a whole lot about that. All I remember is being on Garvey Avenue with buses and that's about all I remember. Except I do remember at Pomona, well, I live in Claremont now so we're, I'm familiar with the fairgrounds. And my husband worked for the county as a mechanic, and they had a repair facility at the fairgrounds and I think where their facility was, was near one of the gates, the visitors' gate, Gate 19 where people would come to visit us.

RP: Who visited you?

MN: The man that took over, that was running the nursery for us. It was a man named Harry Robinson.

RP: Talk a little bit about the arrangements that were made to preserve the nursery. This gentleman was a friend of your father's?

MN: Right. I really don't... I don't know how it happened but I know they were family friends. One of the, one of the sons was a classmate of mine in junior high. And...

RP: Your father felt like this was the man he could trust with the nursery?

MN: Right. Right, he was trustworthy. He was honest. But he wasn't a businessman. And so he had a, he had trouble running the business. And then he turned it over to somebody else.

RP: Who was that?

MN: Should I give his name? I forgot his first name. His name was Augsburger. And apparently he was... I don't know if he, I'm not really sure but anyway there were a lot of financial problems and there was a lot of correspondence between my dad and him, you know, in camp. And like I mentioned before, there's, there were the WRA records -- I don't know what they call the records that they kept -- there was a big stack of papers of, I think every single letter that my dad ever wrote. My dad didn't write 'em. My, probably my sister or my brother, you know, wrote them and then he signed them, but... there was a lot of back and forth business-wise.

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