Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Rokuro Kurihara Interview
Narrator: Rokuro Kurihara
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Glendale, California
Date: May 10, 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-krokuro-01-0021

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RP: When you got back to this area here, did you renew your connection with Mammoth and did you, did you go fishing up there again?

RK: Well, I just got back last week.

RP: You did?

RK: Yeah. We go, we go skiing about every month during the wintertime. And go fishing about three or four times a month, I mean, summertime. Still do, yeah.

RP: Do you still go up to the same areas?

RK: Same area, Crowley, Mammoth Lakes, June Lake Loop. Same place.

RP: And you stop back at Manzanar on your way down?

RK: We did this time. We did, and I have, too. I've stopped there quite a few times.

RP: Are your kids, do your kids have any interest at all in your camp stories or experiences?

RK: Oh, they're interested but they don't... they're interested, that's about it.

RP: Have you gone back to Block 6?

RK: Huh?

RP: Have you gone back to Block 6?

RK: Yeah we went straight up that road. And sort of say well, this is about where we lived. Yeah.

RP: Well, hopefully this, maybe this year, we'll begin excavating the Block 6 garden.

RK: Oh, are you guys gonna do all that?

RP: I hope so.

RK: I thought you're gonna, you gonna rebuild Block 14, huh?

RP: Some of it, yeah.

RK: Yeah.

RP: Yeah. But...

RK: That's what the girl in there said.

RP: Uh-huh.

RK: We were there couple a weeks ago.

RP: Right, yeah. Hopefully we'll be... maybe next time you come up.

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