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RP: Most of the, most of the folks from the San Fernando Valley ended up in the Block 16, 17, and 18.

RM: 16, 17, and 18.

RP: Yeah.

RM: 15, 14, too.

RP: But you ended up in Block 4.

RM: Yeah. When we went there, we got off the bus, lined up and got our shots, and they said, "Oh, there's 4. Okay, you got a room over there in 4, Block 4." There's an opening there so they sent us over and that's how we got there. We got there from the other people. And we stayed there. First we went in there, there was our family and then another family and a woman and his, woman and husband, and two bachelors.

RP: In the same room?

RM: Yeah. So we had to put down the stuff 'til they got it fixed up so the, the bachelors would move into an all-bachelor place. And the family, other family would move into something else, too.

RP: So there were how many of you who went to camp, your family?

RM: Just our family and then, well, my other, my other aunt and uncles went but they went down Poston, Arizona and through there.

RP: That was the family from Oxnard.

RM: Yeah. My aunt, the youngest aunt, went to Colorado. She was, got married that time.

RP: She went out of camp or before camp?

RM: Before camp. Got married and they...

RP: She got married and...

RM: They pushed 'em over.

RP: They, they moved out before they, they got sent to camp?

RM: Uh-huh.

RP: Hm.

RM: So we'd, we were all spread out.

RP: So, you got there in April or May, you arrived in Manzanar...

RM: Yeah, I think April.

RP: Oh, uh-huh. And then, you know school didn't start until October.

RM: Later than that I think.

RP: Maybe, yeah.

RM: Because it was about a year before really got a school.

RP: Uh-huh.

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