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RP: How about the, do you remember any of the restrictions that were placed on Japanese Americans, like the travel restriction and there was also a curfew? Do you know, do you remember...

AS: Oh, talk about the curfew, well, it was, my husband's mother and father lived in this little house, and we thought, well, maybe they wouldn't have to be evacuated, so he took them up north to where his artist brother's family lived, in Hanford. And, gee, there was a curfew, couldn't go beyond twenty-five miles, and so he went to the, asked them, and they said, "Oh, no, just wear your uniform, your Texaco uniform, and just drive up. Won't have any problem. They won't stop you." So he took them up to Hanford. In fact, when we got married, lot of our friends, we couldn't have more than twenty-five people at our wedding. We were the last couple to get married in our church. But we couldn't have more than twenty-five people, so a lot of our families, well, they got kind of angry. "How come we weren't invited?" I said, "We could only have twenty-five people." That was it. But otherwise... the curfew thing. It's so dumb. Like our friend Turney, Mr. Turney was a gym teacher at Venice High School, and they felt sorry for us 'cause we were supposed to stay in. Can't go out. Darkened everything. And so they used to have, "Come on up and play cards." So we'd drive up there and she'd pick us up. And there was this army kind of -- they lived in Santa Monica right up near, below the hill there -- so she says, "Hey, just go down," and she drives through and we'd go to the house and play cards, and she'd bring us... we're citizens and all that.

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