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Show OHI interview with Yasuko K. Yasuda 4/16/84 3 there was a railroad track and Matsumiya san used to leave his flat car there and walk to my house. I never saw anyone except Matsumiya san and his family, and Hakata san and Shirai san. Shirai san must have been there for sometime. I heard that he _l:)assed sway after we moved to Orem. Shirai san never mentioned any JapaneSE names, if there were any, I'm sure he would have mentioned them. LK Do you know how Shirai san got there? YY I don't know. During those days, I never questioned anyl:x:rly. LK Did you have a feeling that he was there a long time? YY Hakata san may know. I don' t know. LK Did he have a wife? YY He was a single man, a bachelor and he was gocx:i to George. I was only 25 or 26 sol thought he was an old man. I will not forget the time when I gave him s~ thing to eat. I said, "Shirai san, this is not very gocx:i, but please eat it." He said, "When you give sanething to someone you should say, this is delicious, please eat it." It is a Japanese way of playing down everything. I won't forget his advice. I brought with me lots of canned cherries, peaches and pears. So 'Whenever I gave him a dish, I said, "This is gocx:i, please eat it, " and he would say, "Okay. " I learned a lesson from him. LK Where did you buy your focx:i from? YY In town. There was a grocery store. During those years we ate a lot of rice and noodles. We ordered it from Ogden. We were ymmg then, so we ate a lot of rice. We also raised chicken and had a.lrrost everything. We had lots of milk cows, too. We had a se}:.)CI.rator so every month we shipped b_y train, butter fat to Salt Lake City in a large container. LK How much butter? YY There was a lot in a big container. I don't renember just how much. Every morning the cream was shipped. That's how we made our living. • • just enough ~ to get by on. We had three children~· George and the twins. Mter Maria was |
