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RP: You remember attending movies in camp?

YW: Every now and then they would have movies. They had a man that was very generous. He used to have a movie house when he was outside of camp. And then he had a lot of films, so he would share those with us. And he says, "Come back after dark and we'll have a show here." So we go and he'd show us some cartoons, kid level movies. I thought very, I think about it, it was very nice of him to do that because there wasn't much to do. Either that or you paid for, you paid a little extra money and go see a show they had on for the adults, and I don't remember ever going to one of those, 'cause... [to wife] you remember going? Yeah, I didn't. I didn't have any money.

RP: Where, where were movies typically shown?

YW: Where were movies shown? In the one case, well, this man brought in the movies to our classroom. He showed it to us in the classroom, and of course getting the permission of the teacher to do that, but it was a break for the kids, 'cause we didn't have much that way. He'd do that once in a while. The other movie that was shown was, it's kind of like a big auditorium you had over in Manzanar. Those kind of facilities were used for that.

RP: You said that you were really into comics growing up as a kid.

YW: Oh yeah, comics.

RP: And in camp you came across a pretty good supply of...

YW: Yeah, I don't know who owned these things, but my house was used as a repository. [Laughs]

RP: Your barrack?

YW: My barrack room. So everybody would come to my, my unit and we'd sit in the shade of the barrack, 'cause they, somebody had built a little shade across the front, and we'd sit there on the ground and on the platform and thumb through these comics. And we'd look at these same comics over and over, week on end, because if we didn't have any new ones we just reread the old ones. It was a good departure from what we were doing, and it was a good way to spend the day because it was hot out there, humid and hot, so we'd look at comics and that was nice.

RP: Do you ever remember this guy, from Arkansas?

YW: Yes. He was on the camp newspaper.

RP: "Little Daniel."

YW: Yeah. I don't know who the artist was that made that.

RP: I think his name was Chris Ishii.

YW: Don't know him.

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