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Bob Idemoto Oral History InterviewEntry/Object ID
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This interview is part of the Represent Los Gatos Oral History Project series. Listen to Robert (Bob) Hideo Idemoto's story. Born in San Jose, Bob grew up in Los Gatos with his family. He attended school in Town, but during World War II, his family was relocated to an internment camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming - all because of their Japanese heritage. Hear Bob's stories from growing up in Los Gatos to living in the camp, and coming back to Los Gatos to settle back into schooling and later becoming the senior class president of Los Gatos High School in 1950. Enjoy listening to Bob's stories and memories. Read a complete transcript of the interview below. Bob: [00:00:01] Robert, OK, Robert, and my middle name is H i d e o. Idemoto. I-d-e-m-o-t-o. But I go by Bob. Simpler. OK, so my dad was born in Hiroshima, Japan. And my mother was born in San Jose. Alviso, actually. So she she's a second generation. My dad is first generation. And you probably heard "Issei." "Issei" is first generation. So then I was-I'm the second. My brother, I have just one brother. Sibling is older than me. He's like about a year and a half older than me. And so I was born on September 17, 1932. So that's a few years ago and I was born, my folks lived in Los Gatos at the time. And so the nearest hospital was O'Connor Hospital, which is in San Jose at the time. It was on San Carlos and Meridian. OK. And it's gone through changes. And now there's a big Safeway shopping complex and residential in there. But that's where I was born and and we lived in Los Gatos on, uh, I believe the address was 440 San Benito which is right at the intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue and Saratoga. And uh... It's about the third street and it ran parallel with Santa Cruz Avenue, and it was just about the second or third house from the corner of Saratoga, so you get kind of the idea. And we lived there for I don't know how long. But we moved to another place up near Overlook Road up the Hill in Los Gatos. Lived there for a certain length of time and then moved down to, I think it was 61 Front Street F-r-o-n-t in town, which is now called Montebello, which is right-The one that goes right to the post office there. Yeah. And at the time, that was the train station. So, we lived at the train station had a, the, you know, the waiting area for the passengers, plus an area for freight and rail, Railway Express used to be the main freight to people that brought their packages and whatever. Yeah, and there was a big mustard colored typical railroad company building, which is kind of like a barn. And and they used to bring in cars for the local dealers to the new brand spanking new automobile, so we lived at the end of Front Street, and at the time it was just dirt and when it rained, it was puddles and ours was the last house, but right in the shadow of a tank that we lived in. And the tank was a water tank to fill the train with water for their steam steam engine. And so it was a treat to watch them pour water in there as a kid. Grace: [00:04:47] Yeah, definitely. Bob: [00:04:49] Yeah. And we rented a house. So that's where I started at grammar school kindergarten, which was on University Avenue, just off of Main Street. Right. Yeah. And it-and much, much later it became a shopping center because the buildings were not suitable for classes. I guess, you know, it was not, uh, earthquake... Grace: [00:05:28] Ah, I see. Earthquake-friendly, yeah. Bob: [00:05:28] Yeah. But here, so, when the war broke out in 1941, we had to evacuate. We were notified that we should - we're going to be leaving the area. So toward the, since the war broke out December, it was sometime January or early February, we were notified we're going to have to leave, and so we packed up. I don't know, my, I just - I still don't know how my father did it, my mother. But we moved to Santa Clara because my mother's father, mother and siblings lived - had a farm there. And so we moved there, thinking that when the time came that we had to leave, we could be all together. Grace: [00:06:36] I see. And how old were you when this happened? You were about 12? Bob: [00:06:41] I was nine - nine and a half when we actually left - physically left the Santa Clara County. Grace: [00:06:51] And then what kind of farm did your family have in Santa Clara? Bob: [00:06:55] Grandfather had about 30 acres of of mixed, uh, from fruits to some berries and some vegetables. 30 acres. So he had a substantial piece of property. And that's what he grew there. And we lived there till we really got the notice that we have to leave. Grandmother passed away when I was several years younger and she got cancer. And so we used to go visit often to see her. And one of the things, you know, you remember grandma and grandpa when you were a little guy is that Grandma always used to have a box of candy. Baby Ruth. Babe Ruth candy. Grace: [00:08:03] Oh, wow. Bob: [00:08:03] She always had a box of it, so she would give us the key to the closet because it was locked up so her own kids wouldn't get it. They were much older, except for the youngest. My auntie. But she would give us the key and bring me the box, and she took the candy out and gave us each one. Of course, my auntie used to complain. "How come they get it and I don't?" Anyway, but that was always in our - remembering that. And many times my dad had to go to San Francisco for an eye - optometrist and he would go on a weekend because he was too busy working during the weekday. Grace: [00:09:01] Is there a reason he would go all the way up to San Francisco? Bob: [00:09:06] Well there was a Japanese eye doctor that he knew. And so mother would make a picnic lunch and then we go. Grace: [00:09:16] Oh, that's a fun trip. Bob: [00:09:19] And on the way back, we would stop in some shady spot and put the blanket out and sit down and eat. So that was a treat. Bob: [00:09:28] But on occasion they would drop us off at Grandma and Grandpa and then he would say, "When we come back, we'll have some toy for you." You know, he always brought back something. And that's just to keep us happy. Grace: [00:09:48] And the grandparents in Santa Clara - they were on your mother's side, right? And your mother was second generation here. Bob: [00:10:00] My mother was second generation. She had two - two other sisters and two brothers. And the oldest brother was the one that - no I take it back, it may have been the second one because I'm not too certain where my uncle was born, but the next uncle was born here in that time, Santa Clara. Grace: [00:10:29] So he was he was able to - they were able to buy a farm under his name. As a noncitizen, you couldn't buy those. You couldn't purchase. Grace: [00:10:41] Ah, I see. OK, and did your parents, they both spoke Japanese? Bob: [00:10:50] My dad was very much Japanese, but my mother spoke a little bit of English, and born in the Japanese family, it was a bit of a challenge. Yeah. So I'm skipping around here, but my dad my dad was a gardener, and I often wonder how come he was doing gardening way out there. But it turns out, those those folks that he did gardening for had the money, you know, people who lived in Los Gatos even at that time or people who lived in Saratoga had - were a little more maybe wealthier. And I thought, well, that was pretty good, you know, choice. Grace: [00:11:45] Yeah, good business choice. Bob: [00:11:49] Yeah. So that's where we live. But after - and then my mother, she did the housework, she called it "domestic" and she did housecleaning for folks in that same area. And so dad would drop her off at the place that she would go on a particular day, pick her up when he got through, and next day, she would go to another source. In the Saratoga up on the hill, there was the Villa Montalvo, I don't know if you heard of that, and she used to occasionally be asked to serve with a few other ladies, serve dinners there. And so she put on her white gown or dress or whatever, and she did that, you know, on occasion. Yeah. And when she did that and my dad was doing gardening or something elsewhere. My brother and I used to have to go with them, of course. And so we used to play in the swimming pool. But there was no water in it. We just ran up and down in the pool. Grace: [00:13:21] Where was this swimming pool? Bob: [00:13:23] Well, it was on the property of Villa Montalvo. Grace: [00:13:26] Oh, I didn't know they had a pool there. Bob: [00:13:29] They had a pool and it was dry. So we used to run around from the high spot down to the low spot ... and then just having a good time there. So no water, just running around. And we did that while, you know, mom was working and had a dinner there. They would have large banquets and things like that. I think the senator, when he came to town was, they had a dinner, that's where they went. And that was the fancy smancy thing, you know? Grace: [00:14:12] Yes, definitely. Still is. Yeah. Bob: [00:14:16] So anyhow, so I'm jumping around here, but. So. Grace: [00:14:23] Your brother - you only had one brother, right? Bob: [00:14:27] Yes. No sisters. Grace: [00:14:28] And he's older, or younger? Bob: [00:14:30] My brother is older by roughly a year and a half. So he's going to be 90. But yeah, he's he's getting up there. Grace: [00:14:44] And what's his name? Bob: [00:14:45] Jim or James. Grace: [00:14:47] James Idemoto. OK. Bob: [00:14:49] Yeah. And we hardly ever fought arguments and you know, no punching each other because I would lose anyway. Grace: [00:15:03] Yeah. You're smart Bob. Bob: [00:15:09] So yeah I, backing up though, before we went to the farm, you know I had classmates that, you know, we were good buddies and in fact there's one woman, one girl who we still meet with from kindergarten that, she and her husband, um, we get together for a lunch. Of course, we haven't had one for a long time now, or dinner or something. So we would do that. And so her name at the time was Beverly. And she and I just you know, we we grew up together and we also had a set of twins that had the - this will make you smile. Their first names was - Athena. And Aphrodite. Grace: [00:16:15] Oh, wow. Bob: [00:16:18] Isn't that something? Grace: [00:16:22] Two goddesses. Bob: [00:16:22] So those are twins and you know, I lost track now. I don't know if either one is still around, but, you know, we were just good, good buddies. All of us know. And had had lots of good memories. In my in my senior year, I - they elected me as president of the senior class. Grace: [00:16:52] Yeah. So how how did that - how was the process back in the day - was there - you were probably running against a few other people, maybe? Bob: [00:17:02] No, I was running against one other guy. And he was a good friend of mine. Grace: [00:17:09] Oh! Bob: [00:17:11] His dad was a doctor, a medical doctor. And and you know, if you were the last time I saw him, he still looked pretty good. A handsome guy and he became a doctor as well. And so we get we get to talking and, you know, it's just great fun. Great fun. Grace: [00:17:41] What was his name? Bob: [00:17:43] His name was Ralph Harder H-a-r-d-e-r. Alphabetically, not too far from my picture. Grace: [00:17:54] Yeah. So you won the election then. Did you have to give some speeches and things like that? Bob: [00:18:04] Yeah, but my speeches were about ten words. Grace: [00:18:08] Well nice and short. Simple, sweet. Bob: [00:18:13] Right to the point, you know? Grace: [00:18:15] Yes, that's good. Very efficient. Bob: [00:18:18] In fact, there's a few perks, you know, being the president of the class. I, I was invited to the Hotel Lyndon. Right there. You know where that is or was. Lyndon Hotel. And I was invited to a luncheon and the the main guest speaker was at the time he was he was the coach - football coach at Cal in Berkeley, and his name was Lynne L-y-n-n I think. And they called him Papi. Papi, like father. Lynn Papi Waldorf. W-a-l-d-o-r-f. And I got to sit next to him, shake his hand. Such a treat. So that was my thing as a senior. Well, I remember when the Christmas time. See, our family is Buddhist, and the Christmas time, you know, we had the - the guess I don't know if that was the whole senior class or what, but we yeah, I think so. We went to the History Club Los Gatos, Women's History Club, and we sang, we had robes and we marched down the aisles on one on each side of the, like a small auditorium and we would march down and tall people first and they would stand up on the top, little guys are up front so they can see us. And there was a fellow named Leon L-e-o-n and last name Zobel Z-o-b-e-l, and he and I were the short guys, so he was on the other end and I was on this end. And we marched down and, you know, and that was I distinctly remember a Christmas program and we had a candle lit. Grace: [00:20:59] And so growing up, you were practicing Buddhism with your family and your parents? Bob: [00:21:06] Yeah, we always came - There's a temple here in San Jose Japan town if you've ever been there. Yeah. It's a nice architecturally Japanese ... And that's where we went so that I could remember ... Grace: [00:21:26] Yeah. Were there any other Los Gatos families that went there as well? Bob: [00:21:32] Well this was much later. But the Yuki family I think you're talking with and in touch with. So they were the - they came... Let's see, I was talking to Carol this morning and I think her husband, Tom was, uh, they were going when he was about five. But they were originally from Salinas. But there were other Japanese families that I could remember all pretty much, farmers, you know, in town, Los Gatos Saratoga. And so just jumping around here, but, um. It you know, it's really something when when we got married, when Sally and I got married, we fellow that was going to be my best man, he was in the Air Force because this is the War.. World War II, got started. And he he joined and I said, well, you know, that's a four year hitch with the Air Force. And so I said I could go in the army and come back out before you get back. But still, I still talk with him a week, every week or so, just to keep in touch. Grace: [00:23:22] And he was a high school friend? Bob: [00:23:24] Yeah. No, because he he went to Campbell. Grace: [00:23:28] Oh, OK. Nearby. Bob: [00:23:32] And near the Los Gatos. But we knew each other so... But so the fella that turned out, I asked to be my best man was, um, he and I worked together during the time we were going San Jose State and we used to work together at a nursery on weekends and, you know, made a few dollars. Grace: [00:24:00] Which nursery was this? Bob: [00:24:05] Oh, it was called Cupertino Nursery. On the Highway 9 is also known as... Grace: [00:24:15] Los Gatos Saratoga? Bob: [00:24:17] Yeah, yeah, Saratoga Sunnyvale. And they became very successful nursery. But his name was Paul Sakamoto and after he graduated, he went on and after he graduate college, he went off and he became, I think, the Mountain View High School or Mountain View High School? Uh, uh, superintendent, I guess. Grace: [00:24:53] Oh, wow. OK. Bob: [00:24:55] Yeah, and and he used to write little articles on gardening and we were working - I didn't know that, but he used that and he used to have a regular place, a spot on the Mountain View paper, and he made a few bucks doing that and I still I still talk to him and he, one of his his good friends, he never got married, but Paul is a very good friend, and he went to Campbell, like I say, and he is a good friend, was once he I think he was the governor of Alaska. So so he... And he still as I understand he's still alive and living in San Jose. So Paul and I were good friends. And it turns out that his sister, who is the oldest one, Paul, is the youngest. His sister, was probably the eldest or second or so, they lived in Alviso, somewhere near my mother, where my mother was born. And they knew each other and played with each other when they were little girls. So how - how things go around. Grace: [00:26:32] Yeah, yeah. It's a small world. Bob: [00:26:35] It really is. And how are we doing on time? Grace: [00:26:41] We're doing great. Yeah. Bob: [00:26:44] You ask me some questions. Grace: [00:26:45] Let's see here. Did you have any other, like, part time jobs in Los Gatos or around the area when you were growing up? Bob: [00:26:55] Yeah, so of course that was when we were in high school and went to college, that we worked together at the nursery. But I used to help my dad doing gardening. So like on some - sometimes on weekends, he would still have a job and we would go out together. And the the best part of that was Mom would make a lunch. You know, we call it bento lunch. Grace: [00:27:29] Yeah. Bob: [00:27:32] And the best part was when we would stop under a shady tree and, you know, together we would eat lunch. Grace: [00:27:42] Oh, that sounds great. Bob: [00:27:45] Oh, it was so good. And, you know. Mom made the best lunch. Grace: [00:27:55] Yeah, what's your favorite thing that she would make? Bob: [00:27:59] Well, you know, it could be like chicken and vegetable dish, you know, and seasoned with soy sauce, and then there'll be some pickled like pickled cucumber, and there's the red one that looks like a little plum. So it makes your mouth water. It's, you know, sour, I guess. Grace: [00:28:28] Yeah. 'Cause it's pickled, right? Bob: [00:28:31] Yeah. Yeah. And then there'd be some that like. Like eggplant. Grace: [00:28:39] Wow. Bob: [00:28:40] So, you know, it would be soaked in the miso. You ever hear of miso, like miso soup? Grace: [00:28:50] Yes. Bob: [00:28:52] And so those kinds of things you can eat with rice and drink tea. And that was the best with me, with my dad. And so we did that, we did that. Grace: [00:29:10] That's a wonderful memory. And your brother would tag along too and help out? Bob: [00:29:18] No, mom would be - that's her day to clean house and. Grace: [00:29:21] Oh, your brother, your brother? Bob: [00:29:24] Oh my brother? No, he I think that was the time when he was still in the service, Grace: [00:29:30] Ah, OK. Bob: [00:29:33] He, uh, he got inducted. He went to Camp Roberts, which is done by Paso Robles. Yeah, and he he served in the Army. 'Cause he wanted to go to a Korean language because the war with Korea, wanted to learn the Korean language, but couldn't get in the class, it was full. Oh no, he first wanted to go to the Japanese language because we knew the teacher instructor and he couldn't get in, it was full. But the instructor was my best man's oldest brother, and he served in World War II, he served as an interpreter with General Douglas MacArthur on the ship when Japan surrendered and they were on the ship to witness the signing of the surrender. So, so Paul's family had quite a history. Serving the army, and I think he had about three other ... one, two... Four brothers all served in the military. Grace: [00:31:11] Wow. Very dedicated. Bob: [00:31:14] But the oldest one was he was he had a lieutenant colonel classification there under General McCarthy. Grace: [00:31:30] Wow, impressive. Bob: [00:31:30] Very impressive. And teaching Japanese language in Monterey. So that was. My brother wanted to get into his class. That was full so... next best thing was Korean language. When he got through with the class, there was not enough time to send one over to to Korea in this case, because there has to be a certain amount of time. Otherwise they can't do it. And I don't remember how many months it was so that he came to Presidio Monterey. Stayed there, worked there, bought a car and got a job outside up there in San Carlos. And so he used to work there before he even got discharged from the service. He did good stuff, but I lost friends in the service from the army. But that's the way things had to go. But where am I now? Question? Grace: [00:33:00] Sure. Um, so you moved to Santa Clara then with your grandparents at nine and a half? And then how soon after that did you have to leave? Bob: [00:33:15] Yeah. So. So and the purpose was to leave together so we could stay together as much as we can. So when we got the notice it was like April or so. So we, we had to leave there and we were we trucked into the North First Street and Bassett - B-A-S-S-E-T-T Street and it's just off of Julian. Yeah. We do that that that's where the train station and we got on the trains and we had to go to, well, I thought that that time we went to Pomona, down in Southern Cal, and what they did was Pomona had a large parking area where it was, I think, the parking lot for the Los Angeles County Fair. And they used that as the parking lot and they quickly put up the barracks and and so we lived in barracks and because of the climate down there, it was just board - board wall, it was actually hot and not cool at all, and we lived. Our barrack was few barracks away from my grandfather and family, even if we were together going, I guess, alphabetically, they were S, and we were I, so I guess that put us in that place. But anyhow, we were there for a few months and then orders came through, then go to another more permanent camp and so we went to on the train, we went to what's called Heart Mountain in Wyoming, if you've heard of Heart Mountain and it's right near Cody-Cody, Wyoming, which is just at the edge of Yellowstone Park, and we were situated right about the middle where there's nothing, there's nothing around, not even a tree. Going the other direction away from Cody you come to a town called Powell, P-O-W-E-L-L. And they were nicer people. The reason I know this is, in Cody, there are signs all over saying "No Japs allowed" and the. Whereas Powell, there was no signs. When they loosened up. You know, initially they had barbed wire fences, they had towers with lights and guns mounted, and they would light the, alarm the barbed wire fence just to keep in mind that nobody was going to escape. Well, that in the light and the. After several months, I guess they felt there was no need to have that anymore, so they took the fences down the road, down the towers, and it moved the other way. And so we were able to go hiking beyond the fence line and you could climb the hills and and we actually climbed to the top of Mount... Heart Mountain, which was named after the Indian chief - Chief Heart, I guess that's the story. So we were able to pack a luncheon and go hiking. We did that in the summer. And the one humorous incident was I climbed up, I jumped over a sagebrush. Now, there was a rattlesnake underneath and you could hear it started to rattle. And so we looked underneath, it was all curled up underneath. And we had an older gentleman who was our guide and he carried a stick with like a Y on the end so he could put that down behind the head of the snake and then grab it. And he did that. We actually had two rattlesnakes on that trip. And he says, Do you want the skin and the metal? I said, sure. And so he had it hanging there. They had it right there and hanging and there it was. But I don't know where it is now. So so we went hiking. I think it was like 14 miles. Grace: [00:39:22] Wow. That's quite a hike. Bob: [00:39:25] For what was I, about 11 years old. Grace: [00:39:28] Wow. Bob: [00:39:30] So yeah, it was quite a hike. And then we hiked that. Grace: [00:39:35] So was the tour guide somebody from, like government worker or..? Bob: [00:39:42] No. One of the one of the gentlemen that we knew, he he knew enough about what to do. I think that, in fact, we had two - one leading and one kind of in the back, but they didn't go as far as we did. They said, OK, we'll leave you guys here, you guys know the rest of the way. So it was quite a hike. And we didn't have cameras then. Yeah. That's not allowed anyway. Yeah. So we didn't have any pictures to take. Well it was fun and the wintertime we used to - well summer so summer we would have some storms with the wind would blow sand and dust and it was, it was terrible, and it was hot. So if you look out a certain direction, I don't know which direction that would be... The west northwest I guess you could see the dust coming. Everybody would warn your friends and neighbors, get your clothes laundry and you get in the house quick and the storms come and we would grab it and stick it in the room. Grace: [00:41:18] Such different weather than Los Gatos over here in the Bay Area. Bob: [00:41:23] Yeah. And wintertime it would snow. Yeah. Just heavy, heavy. Coldest day they ever recorded was thirty below zero. So I guess it was a rarity, but it was cold. So there was a high school at the center of the camp and what they did was fill the football field with water, just let the fire hydrant fill up the football field and that was our ice rink. Grace: [00:42:02] Wow. Bob: [00:42:02] I thought that was some of the fun and we made sleds, but homemade sleds didn't last too long. Yeah, we had scorpions out in the besides rattlers in summer, but scorpions as well. Plus, we had what we had horn toads, but they're lizard family. And red ants. Huge red ants. And if you're walking on the sagebrush and you see a clearing, you would you would see a hole right at the top where the red ants. Made the whatever. How they lived. So we had that, but the scorpions and the what's the... We had the... what's the multi-legs... Grace: [00:43:23] Oh, um... Like millipede and centipedes... Bob: [00:43:35] Yeah! Millipedes. But the dangerous ones were the scorpions. We don't want to get bitten by them. Yes, so those were the, that was sort of the of and then, you know, farmers are farmers, as soon as the fences came down, they they started to cultivate - got rid of the sagebrushes and plant potatoes. They grew some potatoes. That was that was part of camp life. We were allowed to leave when the war finished. And so it was September of 1945 that we were able to leave. And finally and my dad said, you know, we're going to go back to Los Gatos and so I could do gardening again. And then I met my wife a few years later at San Jose State. Bob: [00:44:50] She was born in San Martin, just south of Morgan Hill on the farm, and she was a twin, but the other twin passed away at birth, so she lost her. Their father, who I never met, said "We could go back to San Martin" because our friends and families, my wife's friends, they all said, "come on, back, come on back." We went back to - they went back there. Grace: [00:45:34] And so did you guys, um, you said you were renting a home in Los Gatos before, and so when you came back to Los Gatos, you rented a different house, I presume? Bob: [00:45:47] Yeah, we you know, we were fortunate that house was not there anymore. But there was a Caucasian lady, um, a single lady who lived on the other side of the bridge on Main Street, the other side of which is now Highway 17 then. And the bridge, the Main Street bridge. Well, you're familiar with Main Street Bridge. On your side of the bridge, I think it's College Avenue that goes up and it splits to a Y and goes around one side. Anyway, it was a very well-to-do lady who lived just just before the split in the road. She had this nice paved driveway with, like street lights going down - it was a fairly long driveway and my dad did gardening there and she said and she they all called my dad "K," the first letter of his name. And said, "K, when you come back, come back here. Come back here and we'll figure out how to get you situated." And she said, "You could leave your washing machine, your stove... Various larger items, like that, in the chauffeur's quarters. See, she had a chauffeur. Oh, the the room was there, but she didn't, she used to drive herself, but it was a circular driveway and we got in the house in the in the center of the circle was guest, this guest cottage. Mother and dad stayed there. My brother and I stayed another little alcove, and we had a two story, nice two story house, and my mother did housework there, and my dad did gardening, and because there wasn't enough work for every day, he also got some accounts outside and used to walk to the jobs but later on, but was able to buy a pickup and. Grace: [00:48:32] Wow, he would walk and probably carry some of his tools and things. Wow. Bob: [00:48:40] Yeah talk about. In fact, so, you know, pre-war, he he didn't have a pick-up, he had a 1932 Chevrolet and he used to pack his tools in there. Hand tools and ... that's, that's the way he, uh, worked and saved a few dollars and then after a point, he knew that we can't be living there at. Forever. Her name was Miss Crim. C-R-I-M. Miss Crim. And so they they found a place off of Kennedy Road just a little ways down from you there. And there was a Call, C-A-L-L. Had a nice big house and so mom worked as a housekeeper there, dad did gardening, plus outside of the home and there was another house off to the side that was our house. So we could stay there and the sheriff back then was Sheriff Feathers, Feathers, and he, you know, Los Gatos being what it was, they used to ride horses. And so the horse- Chief Feathers' horse was there at this table and then after him was Chief... Chief... can't think of it right off top. He had his horse there, too, so dad would brush the horses and feed them and and brush the horses. And so that's that's how I used to walk from there to the high school. Until, again, my parents, they said they could move up to San Jose, and so we moved to San Jose off of Bascom Avenue is a street called Dry Creek. Dry Creek Avenue. We lived in there few years... Grace: [00:51:32] ... [truncated due to length]Collection
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