Densho Digital Archive - Yukiko Miyahara Interview (denshovh-myukiko

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KP: So when were you married?

YM: 1940, June.

KP: And did you move at that time?

YM: Uh-huh.

KP: Where, where did you move to?

YM: I moved, I moved to Torrance, you know where that nursery was. That picture I showed you of the nursery.

KP: And who owned that, who owned that property?

YM: I mean, my uncle leased that property and, and he had that nursery.

KP: And you said when you first moved there you lived in the...

YM: Yeah, the back house. [Laughs.] But then we didn't live there that long. We moved to my parents' place and helped them on their farm.

KP: Did you work at your uncle's place?

YM: Yes.

KP: What did you, what were your...

YM: I just did transplanting in the greenhouse.

KP: Did you get a chance to get out with your husband and do anything?

YM: Oh yeah, we used to go to movies all the time.

KP: What kind of movies? What do you remember?

YM: I don't know. There were these, the kind that you saw every week or every... you know, we used to go see on this, I forgot, cheap, ten-cent movies.

KP: At that time, when you were watching the movies, were they showing newsreels about the war in Europe?

YM: No, not then. 'Cause it was after... when we used to go to the movies, that was before the war so you know... we didn't see any. We didn't go after that war started, so...

KP: So when you moved back and lived with your parents, what did Toshio do?

YM: We all, we all helped on the farm. Well, we didn't stay there that long 'cause we moved away again to work for a big nursery.

KP: Which nursery was that? Do you remember?

YM: It was Union Nursery in Inglewood. That was the last place we lived until we moved to my uncle's after the war started. 'Cause where we lived, they don't want any Japanese people living there so we had to leave.

KP: This was in Inglewood?

YM: Yeah.

KP: And you were working for...

YM: Union Nursery.

KP: And both you and your husband worked at the nursery?

YM: Uh-huh.