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RP And then you returned in December to Manzanar.

TM: Yeah. And then the following spring, we went to Idaho for beet, beet thinning.

RP: That work out a little better financially?

TM: Yeah, I guess so. Uh-huh.

RP: Did you go out with the same group of guys?

TM: No, no. Different guys, yeah.

RP: Was there anything on the first trip that you brought back with you that you couldn't get in camp, like chocolate or candy or...

TM: No, I think in camp we had just about everything we wanted, huh?

RP: Some of the guys who went out on furlough said they used to try to sneak whisky or alcohol back into camp.

TM: Yeah, well, I wasn't into that. [Laughs] Yeah.

RP: Where did you thin beets in Idaho?

TM: Filer, place called Filer, near Twin Falls.

RP: And just a little ways from Twin Falls was another War Relocation Center called Minidoka.

TM: Yeah, uh-huh.

RP: Did you meet up with any guys from that camp?

TM: No. But I visited Minidoka before. See, what year was I there? I went there and I'vr been to Topaz.

RP: Visiting friends?

TM: No, in Minidoka I didn't have any friends because they were mostly...

RP: Seattle.

TM: Vancouver people and...

RP: So what was the purpose of your visit in Minidoka?

TM: What was my what?

RP: The purpose of your visit to Minidoka.

TM: Oh, I don't know whether I had my car out that year. And just visit, yeah, what the camps are like. But in, in Idaho, my brother and I, we used to go fishing over... trout fishing. Yeah. I picked up, that's where I picked up trout fishing. I didn't like that ocean fishing, but trout fishing wasn't bad so we picked that, picked up that, yeah.

RP: That was on this furlough that you went on?

TM: Uh-huh.

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