<Begin Segment 5>

RP: You said that your, after you spent time in Vista, that you --

MS: Then we came, for a while I think we went to Whittier. My father, he was a foreman of the orange growers, always with citrus industry, so we ended up in Glendora because a man, he was a A.K. Borne, who was, he had something with Singer sewing machine company and he wanted to invest his money, so he bought hundred acres of orange grove in Glendora, so my father was a foreman and he ran that ranch for him. So he ran that until he passed away, so I grew up in Glendora, went to grammar school and graduated high school there.

RP: Did you live, did you have a house on the land where the orange grove was?

MS: Yes, uh-huh, they provided us with a house. That's when they had this big irrigation, where they had, that's when we lost my sister.

RP: So that, that reservoir was part of the irrigation for the ranch?

MS: Yeah, it was right, that's how they preserved the water to irrigate the plants.

RP: What are your memories of that ranch and growing up there?

MS: Oh, I don't know. My brother is raising pigeons and we had, we raised our own vegetables and fruit, so my mother was always canning, raised chickens. In between the space between the orange... we used to raise our own vegetables and my mother learned how to can those days, so I'm still doing it. Lot of people this generation don't do that. I make jam; I learned from my mother. Whenever I get extra I'd can tomatoes and people'd give me a bunch of tomatoes. People don't do that anymore. It's difficult to get canning jars, too. Not too many people do that anymore. So we had our own chicken and my brother had rabbits, 'cause we had plenty of room there, I remember. It was...

<End Segment 5> - Copyright © 2009 Manzanar National Historic Site and Densho. All Rights Reserved.