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This interview is part of the Represent Los Gatos Oral History Project series. Watch this interview with Aiko Sato, who grew up in Los Gatos on the Yuki farm. Hear her experiences moving to Los Gatos after growing up in Salinas and then being relocated to a Japanese internment camp in Poston, Arizona. She details her experiences going to school in Los Gatos, playing with her family members on the farm and in the Los Gatos Creek, and her life beyond Los Gatos High School building a career and engaging in Town activities like jazzercise. Read a complete transcript of the interview below. Grace: [00:00:00] Thank you for Aiko joining us and being a participant in the Represent Los Gatos Oral History Project. We're so excited that you're here and you're able to carve out some time for us to share your story. Would you be able to introduce yourself right now? Aiko: [00:00:17] Yes my full name is May Aiko Sato. And what else? Grace: [00:00:26] Do you mind sharing when you were born? Aiko: [00:00:28] I was born in Selena's California in 1935 August, and I just barely started first grade there like a month. And then we were called into the internment camps in Poston, Arizona. And I was there for four years and I came to Los Gatos in the summer of 1945 and I've been here ever since. Grace: [00:01:00] Ok, great. And can you talk a little bit about what your parents did in Salinas? Aiko: [00:01:09] They were farmers, my my grandmother and grandfather, my mother's parents and my parents and an uncle and I have two sisters, an older sister and a younger sister. And we were there. I can't remember when we left. But anyway, I came to Los Gatos in 1945 and I went to grammar school. I think I started the fifth grade here at Cambrian Grammar School, which is no longer there, but it's where there's a Lunardi's on Los Gatos Boulevard near Curtner across the street from there there was a Cambrian Grammar School. And I went there until I went to Los Gatos High School. I graduated eighth grade at Cambrian and went to Los Gatos High School and graduated from there in 19, I think, 53. And before we started at Cambrian, Mr. Tom Yuki, Takeo Yuki, my, I guess he's my uncle in law. He went to the school and talked to the principal. It was a Mr. Bagby, there's a school named after him here in San Jose and told him that there were about seven of us kids going to start his grammar school. And so we never had any problems. There wasn't anything racial problems at all during grammar school and even in high school. I never had any problems. And in Los Gatos High School, there was only about five or six Asians in the entire school at that time. Aiko: [00:03:12] And that's it so far, and I grew up on the Yuki farm, which is called the North 40. And. I left there in the late I think by 1970 and moved to my own condo here. But I still go to the farm to the ranch. We call it the ranch. And we celebrate Christmas, we started with four little families. And now it's grown to like one hundred people that we meet on Christmas Eve. And then also we have what's called mochizuki, the rice pounding that we do like a week before Christmas and you make the mochi patties to eat on New Year's morning. Grace: [00:04:11] Yeah that's a wonderful tradition. Has that been going on since you were a little girl? Aiko: [00:04:17] Right. Grace: [00:04:19] Wow. Aiko: [00:04:21] It's been nice. Grace: [00:04:25] So you you grew up in Salinas until you were first grade then, so you don't really remember too much about that? Aiko: [00:04:34] No, I don't remember much about it. Grace: [00:04:37] I see. Aiko: [00:04:39] It was just barely I just barely started first grade. And then I think I started second grade in the camp. Second, third, fourth, second, third, fourth. And then when I came out, I started fifth grade. Yeah. Grace: [00:04:56] And were you able to go to the same internment camp as the rest of your extended family then? Aiko: [00:05:07] Yes, my mother, my father, my grandmother, my uncle, my mother's brother, and then the three of us. Three daughters were together. Grace: [00:05:23] You have two sisters, right? Aiko: [00:05:25] I have two sisters, yes. Grace: [00:05:28] What are their names? And are they older or younger? Aiko: [00:05:30] I have an older sister. Her name is Jane, and she lives a couple of miles from me here. And I have a younger sister named Lois and she lives a couple of miles. We live kind of in a triangle, so I see them all the time. And then I go over to Tom and Carol Yuki's a lot. I'm great friends with Carol. Grace: [00:05:58] And you mentioned that Tom Tom is your uncle or your cousin? Aiko: [00:06:04] Tom does a. Takeo Yuki, but they call them Tom, too. That was the father of Tom. The present Tom Yuki. Grace: [00:06:14] Gotcha, OK. Aiko: [00:06:15] Yeah, who's married to Carol. Grace: [00:06:18] Yes. OK, OK. And so what was it, I guess you said you you didn't have any problems when you came to Los Gatos in the fifth grade with schooling and all of that. So what was it like going to school here in town? Aiko: [00:06:40] It was typical. You know, went to the football games and I went back there a few years ago and took a class, an evening class. Aiko: [00:06:53] And the school is still the same, the main building, but the rest of it is all built up, you know, the gymnasium and everything. You know, all the other out buildings. That's all been new. But, yes, it still looks the same from the street. Yeah. Grace: [00:07:15] It's a beautiful school. Aiko: [00:07:17] It is. Yeah. And the graduation was always off the top of the building, you know, it's sloped down over the lawn. And I think it's a gorgeous school. Yeah. Grace: [00:07:31] Yeah. We have to shut down the library early on graduation day because it gets so crowded and the parking and all that we would get trapped in there if we were still working at that time. So we always close down the library on those days. Well, yeah, it's a big event for sure. Aiko: [00:07:55] Right. Grace: [00:07:56] So then were you involved in any, I guess, extracurricular activities or or clubs when you were going to LGHS? Aiko: [00:08:08] The only thing I remember joining was Future Homemakers, I think it was called. Some kind of home making, and I know I I entered things into the county fair, Santa Clara County Fair, and I won a couple of blue ribbons. Sewing or something I can't exactly remember but any other. I can't remember joining and I know my older sister Jane was in the drum corps. There was a and they were in kind of a Spanish outfit and it was a drum corps that went with the they marched in parades and things. Aiko: [00:08:57] I can't remember. I don't know what my younger sister, what she was in because I was gone by the time she went there. Grace: [00:09:09] Well, it sounds like you had a very I guess, a very good schooling experience here in town. And did you keep did you keep in touch with any of your friends from the schools you went to? Aiko: [00:09:26] Not really. I had one friend that I met a couple of times I met for lunch, see about seven, eight years ago, and I hadn't seen them since we graduated. It was really nice, but I think one of them has since passed away. A lot of them, I think I passed away. Aiko: [00:09:55] What was I I was going to say something oh I was in a secretarial where I went out to work in a doctor's office in town in my senior year getting little office experience in a medical office that I can't even remember the doctor's name. Aiko: [00:10:24] One of my classmates. Her name was Ruth Hubble. And her father was Carl Hubble when he was an attorney in town. And I went to work for him part time. I started out part time and it was on University Avenue and there was a French laundry near the corner of University and Santa Cruz Avenue and then law offices right next door to the French laundry. And then there's a stone house next to the former French laundry. And the French couple, an elderly French couple, lived in that stone house. And I believe that stone house is still there on University Avenue. So I'm bringing back memories from a long time ago. Daniel: [00:11:23] That's interesting. I think it's right across the street from where the Carnegie Library would have been, right where the where the church is now. Aiko: [00:11:31] There's an Episcopalian church, right? Yes. Yes. And Old Town was wasn't was a grammar school. And that became Old Town. Now, it's changed a lot since I was there and we used to go to the theater downtown all the time on the weekends, but yeah. Daniel: [00:12:01] Who did you typically spend time with, like outside of school? Did you have friends that you hung out with or went to the movies was it mostly with family? Aiko: [00:12:10] Most of it was just on the farm in the Yuki family, the Abe family, Ted and Rick Abe. Ted Abe was quite an athlete. And they were going to induct him into the Los Gatos Hall Athletic Hall of Fame this past summer. But because of the coronavirus, it was postponed till next year. Aiko: [00:12:36] And oh, well, we were about three, four miles outside of town, know by Lark and Los Gatos Boulevard. So it was all country between there and Shannon Road. So, I mean, we we didn't have we couldn't drive. We were too young to drive, so we couldn't go into town except if one of the parents drove us there so we couldn't hang out downtown, you know, like kids do now, but. Aiko: [00:13:15] Other than that, I had a girlfriend that I used, she lived up at the end of Santa Cruz Avenue, there was kind of a hill and then there were homes up there, one of my girlfriends lived up there and I remember going to her place and staying overnight. But we didn't we didn't do things a lot because we couldn't drive. Aiko: [00:13:45] Now, especially when we're in the first couple of grades. Freshman and sophomore year until I turned 16, and then I think I learned to drive and then I got around, but I I was more involved with our church, our Buddhist church, which was downtown San Jose. So. Daniel: [00:14:15] And you were involved as a as a teenager in the church? Aiko: [00:14:19] As a teenager at the church, yes, I think I went to Sunday school there and as I became an adult and went out and started working, I joined the church choir. And then there was a youth club that I joined there. So times were different than now. So you kind of congregated with your people, the people you're comfortable with. And after. Yeah, after I graduated from high school, I didn't keep in touch very much with my classmates. Aiko: [00:15:06] A lot of them went off to different colleges and I went to San Jose State for a couple of years. Grace: [00:15:13] Did you, I guess, feel was there are a lot of youth members at your church then from other cities and areas, not from Los Gatos? Aiko: [00:15:26] Right. They were from all over Santa Clara Valley. Yeah. Yeah, Grace: [00:15:32] That's great. And so you mentioned the. Go ahead. Go ahead. Aiko: [00:15:39] Most of my friends at that time after during college and after college were. Friends from the church. Grace: [00:15:54] I was going to ask. Did your family so you lived with the Yukis then on the same was it, like in a separate house or did you guys all live in. Aiko: [00:16:09] We all had separate houses. Grace: [00:16:11] Gotcha. OK. Aiko: [00:16:13] But then we were each other's playmates because, it's a ranch and there's we had no way of traveling to town. So we kind of were our own little neighborhood. Grace: [00:16:27] Right. It's a whole community over there, which is great. Yeah. Aiko: [00:16:32] And the property went all the way to Los Gatos Creek from Los Gatos Boulevard, all the way to Los Gatos Creek, from Lark Avenue to Burton. Aiko: [00:16:44] So we had we were able to roam around all over the ranch, and in the summertime we'd go down to the creek, pack up a box lunch and go down there and we would pick watercress from the creek and the creek was you know the water was a lot cleaner then and there were little what were those little crabs, little shrimp like things. What do you call them. All of a sudden I got a blank. Daniel: [00:17:26] Not the crawfish, right? Aiko: [00:17:26] Yeah, crawfish. Crawdads, yeah. We would pick those. Aiko: [00:17:29] And When they built Highway 17 right through the middle of the property. Mr. Yuki, the senior Yuki, he built a tunnel to connect the two pieces of property, and so we would and then there was a old house there off of which is now called Oka Road and it was called we used to call the Libby House because it was that Libby. Aiko: [00:18:04] There's a canning company, Libby, and that was their summer home, and they had an attached like a bar it was there was a bar and it was hardwood floors, like for dancing and we used to go down there and play a lot. Yeah. Aiko: [00:18:29] So and that's where Tom Jr. lives now, Tom and Carol, that's where their house is now. But we'd roam all over the ranch. There was a lot of land, but. And, you know, everybody left their doors unlocked on the property you didn't have to lock doors and everyone would come, we'd go playing in the yard area, but also we'd go to each other's homes. And I remember my grandmother, she used to make soba noodles by hand, she would hand roll it and slice it and boil it, and all the kids would say, when your grandmother makes the soba noodles, call us and we had a round table in the big round table in the kitchen and we would all sit around while she would knead the dough and stretch it out and then cut it and then boil it and also add when we had the mochi making time. We didn't have freezers then. Maybe you had a tiny little portion of your refrigerator, had a freezer, but that wasn't enough to keep the mochis. So my grandmother would we would do five pounds of rice, sweet rice at a time. They would steam it pound it and Mr. Yuki got all the equipment from Japan and where the stone, the granite stone, where you pound the rice and everything. Well, we would all make it into round patties like cookie size patties, these rice things. But my grandmother would make one big slab and it would get hard. Then she would cut it and the kids would say, when your grandmother starts to cut the mochi call us and we all sit around the table and watch her cut the mochi, and we'd keep it in water. And that was the only way to preserve it at that time. Yeah. So, yeah, thinking back. Aiko: [00:20:48] Brings back a lot of memories, and lately, Carol got us, there's about seven of us women, we get together and we make pickles in the in the old barn and the barn is fixed up with all the cooking equipment or when we make mochi and, you know, there's gas there and sinks with big, you know, faucets and everything. And so then we started making pickles and selling them and they were quite popular, but. Aiko: [00:21:22] Since the pandemic started, we we had to give that up to a lot of things, social things have stopped and it's a little unsettling. Grace: [00:21:34] Yeah, yeah, definitely. Have you been able to see your family pretty regularly, though, despite not having those big gatherings anymore? Aiko: [00:21:45] Yes, I see both my sisters quite a bit. At least once a week, and I see Carol too. Carol and Tom. Grace: [00:21:57] That's great. Daniel, did you have any more questions about, like I guess childhood and that section of Aiko's life? Daniel: [00:22:10] I was I was kind of just looking at just an aerial view on a map of the land. And I was wondering if, you know, so like from what I can tell, based on how you described it, it goes up to like where the Jewish center is, the JCC. Aiko: [00:22:26] Yes. Daniel: [00:22:27] Was that did that used to be also included in the land? Was that. Aiko: [00:22:30] Yes. Daniel: [00:22:31] OK. Aiko: [00:22:32] You know the school on the corner? Daniel: [00:22:34] Mm hmm. Yeah. Aiko: [00:22:36] Like a church school. I think that was part of the property too. The Yuki property. And I, I, I'm not sure if the Jewish Community Center was part of it or not. I don't remember. But next to the Jewish Community Center, there's a piece of land. Right. Daniel: [00:22:55] Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Aiko: [00:22:56] And that's probably yeah. That went all the way to the creek Los Gatos Creek and that's still part of the Yuki property. And I remember when the tennis club went up the tennis court right next to. Daniel: [00:23:19] Right. Was that also part of the land like were these parts of land that Tom. Aiko: [00:23:24] I can't remember if that was part of the land or not. But the Oka, the name Oka the road, Oka Road. The family of Sam Oka used to live at the end of that road, and that was the property was sort of connected, I think we used to go over to. Oh, I know. I remember now. Aiko: [00:23:57] Mr. and Mrs. Oka had a home there and they had a son named Sam and he married Betsy Oka and Betsy Oka is my younger sister's sister-in-law. Betsy Oka was my sister, Melissa's husband. They were brother and sister. And did you get the name Betsy Oka from Carol? Grace: [00:24:27] I did not. Aiko: [00:24:30] My sister talk to Betsy and she said she had a video of Sam being interviewed and they lived there before World War II, before the internment camps so they're really long time residents of Los Gatos and she lives off of Winchester overlooking Vasona. Grace: [00:24:53] Oh, OK. Aiko: [00:24:54] Lovely home overlooking you go on your backyard. You think, oh, this is heaven overlooking Vasona Lake. Grace: [00:25:03] Yeah. Daniel: [00:25:06] It feels like some of the last undeveloped areas as far as within within Los Gatos. Did they have when you were a kid on the on the ranch, did they have you do any work in the fields or were you mostly kind of free to run around and play with the family? Aiko: [00:25:25] We used to work for Sam Oka during the summer picking apricots and prunes. And then also they had a we would get a dehydrating system where we would go there and we would cut the cost and lay them out on these long trays and then they would dry them in the drying shed. And that's what we did during the summers, picking apricots and cutting apricots. And also we. There was a farm off more north toward the Cambrian area and we picked raspberries in the summer. I mean, you know, we didn't have jobs, like there were no McDonald's and those fast food places to work in. And so it was all agricultural type thing. And I remember working in a cannery, cutting peaches and apricots in downtown San Jose somewhere. I don't know how we got there, but yeah, this is when we were still in grammar school and maybe high school. That's the kind of job you had at summertime. Whereas my sister and younger sisters' children, they all worked at that McDonald's on Los Gatos Boulevard when they were in high school. Yeah, times were different. Daniel: [00:27:05] Quite a change between generations. Aiko: [00:27:07] Yeah. It was really carefree and just running around on the ranch with my relatives because we were all sort of related and we all came there from our camp because we couldn't go back to Salinas, because I heard that the Salinas National Guard, I guess, had a hard time during the war in Japan, I guess. And so weren't welcomed back to Salinas. That's why Mr. Yuki Senior bought this property in Los Gatos, but he still had a business in Salinas. So that's why we came there. Daniel: [00:27:58] And I'm wondering, did your did your parents and since you're around all these families, do you remember the adults that were talking about their experiences around town or did they have any trouble conducting business or going going around town or did they feel more or less welcome? Aiko: [00:28:19] Oh, they never mentioned that. But the minute I could drive when I was 16, I had to take my mother because my dad would be working and my mom I would take her grocery shopping, too, if there was a grocery store on Santa Cruz Avenue about where we were a block from the theater block south of the theater. I don't know what's there now. I remember I could take and do the grocery shopping and on rainy days I'd take her to the laundromat to dry the clothes because we had a washing machine but no dryer. Aiko: [00:29:03] Oh, yes, things like that. And I don't remember any being mistreated anywhere. But I remember the one thing I do remember was when we were in the grocery store and sometimes my mother was born and raised here in California in Salinas where she spoke English. But sometimes she'd speak to me in Japanese in the store. And I would tell her, mom, don't speak Japanese, speak English. I remember that. Yeah. Daniel: [00:29:38] Do you feel like did you ever hear that from any classmates or other people? Aiko: [00:29:43] No, you know, I never, ever had any or anything like that happen to me all during grammar school and high school. But once I was working, I got a job. I worked in a law office in San Jose for 16 years. And then I went to work at the Pruneyard Shopping Center. I worked for the owner who built the shop and he's still in Los Gatos and I still work for him part time. Anyway, one day I went shopping for across the Pruneyard there was a Long's. I think the Long's is still there. Grace: [00:30:30] Yes, it's CVS now. Yeah. Aiko: [00:30:33] Oh yes. Yes CVS. OK, I went up Campbell Avenue at Campbell Avenue and Bascom and I made a right turn and. I guess I. It was three lanes going north and two lanes from the south and I turned north to go to CVS and I went into CVS and I parked. And this girl, young, blond teenage girl, came up to me and she started yelling at me and calling me all kinds of names and go back to where you came from. And I just ignored her. And I went into the store and she followed me there and she kept yelling at me all through the store. And I didn't end up buying anything. I came out of there and when I got back to the car, she was still yelling at me. And when I went to my car, the whole driver's side of the car was keyed to she keyed my whole car side of the car. That's the one and only time I've ever had anything happen to me like that. That was when I was in my 30s. So it was very. Unnerving. Aiko: [00:31:53] Very um. I had never experienced anything like that ever. And so that's the one time. All through my younger years I never had any problem and I always had friends, Caucasian, especially Caucasian friends when I was in Los Gatos because of the only people that were Asian were my relatives. Aiko: [00:32:21] And and then when I went to San Jose State, it was. They didn't have a community college at that time, the only there was only San Jose State. So I went in as and I just went there for two years. And then I think this next year after I went there, San Jose City College started, and then in our area, there was only Los Gatos High School and Campbell High School, and then there was San Jose, downtown San Jose, but there weren't all these grammar schools and high schools like they have now. There was no middle school there was only grammar school and high school and just. So. And everything was all still country you know orchards and. So it isn't like it is now with wall-to-wall buildings and houses and everything. Aiko: [00:33:32] I've seen it grow and grow through all these years, but I miss all the blossoms in the in the spring orchards and apricots. And, you know, you used to go up on Blossom Hill Road and overlook the valley and you see all these beautiful blossoms. Yeah, nothing like that anymore. Daniel: [00:33:57] Wow, now that's. I was wondering if you remember if your your parents or any of the families invited other people from around town to the ranch, or was it mostly just your families that were there at the ranch? Aiko: [00:34:15] It was just mostly family. Daniel: [00:34:24] And how was what did you study when you were at San Jose State? Aiko: [00:34:31] How was it? Daniel: [00:34:32] Sorry, what did you study while you were at San Jose State? Aiko: [00:34:36] I think I was studying mostly. Secretarial because I wanted to become a secretary. I mean, there weren't that many opportunities for women. Mostly they were in to secretarial. Nursing. What else. Book keeping that kind of thing, you know, we women didn't go into engineering and law and all of that at that time. You were either a homemaker or you became a secretary or a nurse. Aiko: [00:35:17] Those were kind of your options. And so then I went to work for Carl Hubble and he was a lawyer in Los Gatos and I was there for, I can't remember, maybe 10 years and then went to a larger law firm in downtown San Jose. For 16 years, then I went to work for the owner of the Pruneyard Fred Sahaty, he still lives in Los Gatos. And that's where I'm still at. Aiko: [00:35:57] And we sold the Pruneyard shopping center and the towers and everything, and he owned a couple of restaurants in the in the shopping center and. But now we're located in Los Gatos, again, a small office. So that's that. Grace: [00:36:25] Did your I guess your parents and the adults in all those four families that you lived nearby to. Did they sort of encourage their children, including you, to, I guess, sort of leave the farm? Or did they want you guys to sort of be nearby and help out and things like that? Aiko: [00:36:53] Um I'm trying to remember. No, I think they just let us become whatever we wanted to. My sister, my older sister. Oh I know San Jose Junior College was within the San Jose State at that time, and my older sister graduated from the junior college and got her AA degree. Aiko: [00:37:27] But I. And my younger sister, went to UCSF Nursing School in San Francisco and she graduated from Berkeley. And. I guess she always wanted to be a nurse. I always wanted to just be a secretary. That's what I ended up doing, becoming a legal secretary. Grace: [00:37:55] That's great. Daniel: [00:37:56] Yeah, does most of the family still live here in the in the South Bay Area or have they spread out? Aiko: [00:38:06] My my both my sisters and I live here on Los Gatos San Jose border. And the other. Let's see, we all the others all went to school, either San Jose State or Santa Clara University of Santa Clara. Or the Abes. I think the boys went to UC Berkeley. And one became a dentist and one became a pediatrist. Aiko: [00:38:45] And let's see. Tom. He went to work for I can't remember where he went. But anyway. He ended up running the family business. Grace: [00:39:05] And you mentioned that one of the Abes was a very accomplished in sports. Which sport? Aiko: [00:39:14] He's the one that became a dentist, went to UCSF and dentistry and he. Had a business in Los Altos as a dentist, but he passed away fairly early and he was very athletic and I was going through my yearbook, my Los Gatos High School yearbook, and he's been in the freshman year he was in every sport available. Football, track, basketball. Aiko: [00:39:44] And he was I noticed in all the pictures. Yes. And they just I guess they went through the high school records and realized that he was quite a sportsman. And so they were going to put him into the Los Gatos Athletic Hall of Fame, like I said. And I guess they're still planning to do that next summer, hopefully. Grace: [00:40:10] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hopefully all of this will be over by then. Yeah. Aiko: [00:40:16] Yeah, right. Grace: [00:40:18] What was his first name again? It was. Did you say. Aiko: [00:40:22] Ted. Ted Abe. A b e. Aiko: [00:40:29] And his younger brother, Rick, he didn't he and Penny Yuki, Tom Yuki's younger sister Penny and Rick. By then, Del Mar High School had opened. Which is now the Camden. There's a Camden Park shopping center there that was Camden High School, and by then they had segregated the school areas so they couldn't go to Los Gatos High School. So they had to go to Del Mar. Aiko: [00:41:05] So they were the two younger of the of the seven of us. There there's something that. Daniel: [00:41:11] When you say segregated, you mean by location because they lived in a certain area they had to, right? Aiko: [00:41:19] Correct. Grace: [00:41:20] And this was in what year about? 19... Aiko: [00:41:27] Let's see. when would that have been? Grace: [00:41:29] 50? Aiko: [00:41:29] It was in the 50s, I think, because I graduated in 53 and they were they were like five years, six years younger than me. Grace: [00:41:38] Ok. It's almost 1960. Yeah. Aiko: [00:41:41] Right. Grace: [00:41:45] Um, when you were growing up on the farm was there, you mentioned that you would get like these part-time summer jobs at other farms and I guess did the farm that you grew up on wa was there hired help and things like that during the summers? Aiko: [00:42:04] And, you know, we. What did they have on the property? Walnut trees, I think. And my father and Tom Yuki, the junior Tom Yuki's uncle. Oh, and another there was another Uncle Hideo Abe. That was Mrs. Yuki's brother. Those three work on the farm there. It was originally a vineyard when we came and then they planted walnut trees and then Mr. Yuki bought this property up in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Summit Road. I don't know how many acres are up there, but they would work up there on that property. And then he bought this beach property in Pescadero, California, because when we were in Salinas, my grandmother knew somebody in Pescadero and we would drive from Salinas to Pescadero it'd be an all day drive and we would go and pick seaweed and we would bring home the seaweed and wash it and dry it and use it for the r... [truncated due to length]Collection
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