Densho Digital Archive - Henry Nishi Interview II (denshovh-nhenry

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RP: Do you remember any other, other folks in your block, people that stick out in your mind?

HN: I don't know what happened to him, but I think they're in southern California, but they went to Tule Lake, Tamuras. They were, I think there was three boys.

RP: Were they the baseball players?

HN: Baseball players. They were very athletic. They were... yeah. But, and remember I was telling you that the fire engine, the older one was a fireman. And I remember he used drive, I don't know if it was that truck there, but used to always, he used to always travel around in that, with the truck in the camp. The one I knew, the youngest one was George. And the one in between was Jim, Jimmy. And the older one was...

RP: Barry?

HN: Who?

RP: Barry?

HN: Barry. Yeah, he was the fireman.

RP: He was the fireman.

HN: He was the fireman yeah.

RP: So he would just drive his truck around the camp just sort of patrolling or...

HN: Patrol, yeah. And then, then there was a Ishida family. They lived in our same building. And he volunteered, but he came back.

RP: He volunteered for the military?

HN: Yeah, yeah.

RP: Ishida?

HN: Yo, Yo Ishida.

RP: Okay.

HN: He was a sumo, sumo wrestler. Yeah.

RP: In camp?

HN: Huh? No, from before, before camp.

RP: Before.

HN: They had, they had a sumo... he's from downtown. There was a lot of people that that was their hobby, sumo, sumo wrestling.

RP: So you were in Block 22, building 4?

HN: 22-11.

RP: 22...

HN: 11.

RP: 11.

HN: Apartment 1.

RP: Apartment 1.

HN: Yeah, 22-11-1. You know, our address, our home address is 2211 on Corinth.

RP: On Corinth?

HN: Yeah. We happened to be in 2211.

RP: That's pretty eerie.

HN: Yeah.

RP: So did you, did your dad or you landscape around your barrack building? Did you plant locusts?

HN: It wasn't until... when I left, we didn't have no landscaping. But I know afterwards it was, they did, I don't know whether Dad did it or not but it had quite a bit of landscaping. 'Cause, you know, towards the end then everybody was landscaping, from what I understand.