Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita

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OHI Grace Oshita 5-22-85 sl:8 GO AH. LK Did ~u bring warm clothing with you. GO No. Well, inour area in San Francisco where we lived, your spring wight clothing is enough the wholeyear round. We do have the cool rainy season, but it's not what you would consider freezing weather, so it was bearable withalightweightcoat and a sweater underneath. So, that's about what the kind of heavy clothes we had with us. Oh, beforei Go on, the - as soon as the evacuees arrived and the carpenters were hired from among the evacuees. They started to winterie - ""winterize the apartment. And that didn't mean extra insulation. it just meant hammeringon the plaster boards, and that waswinterizing, that was the extent •.. Plasterboard. So, the thickness of that builidng, the barrakcs were the plasterboards, one inch boards and aar paper, that's it. LK What was that first winter like. Do you remember? GO Yes. We got excited with the first snow fall becuasewe'd never seena snow fall in San Francisco. I think. Until then. Let's see, myhye I might have seen it snow in San Franicsco once. Andi think there was about a half an inch of snow piled on -y window sill andoh, it was so exciting. But. end side one begin side two lK •. the roads. GO The roads between the blocks were raised and graveled. And so the cars could - or trucks, you know, maintenance and such could