Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Raymond Uno

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RU Yeah. And in school was the same ,.;ay. Yeah. I remember that a couple of the teachers at Lexington School, because a number of Japanese went there, were very, very kind and when we were put into the Pomonos Assembly Center which was in Pomono in the fairgrounds. They erected this assembly center there and I remember that Pomono Assembly Center because it was a sort of a fair and one time my dad took us to the Pomono Fair and they had a play called Ramona, and that play had to deal with essentially a Spanish family. The love affair between this guy and this woman and the fighting that took palce and I kind of associate Ramona, Pomono, the fair and the detention center. Even during the time that we were under restriction my dad, before that, he did a lot of traveling like he did here so, you know, he knew a lot of people and we used to travel all ouer San Gabrielle Valley, you know, to take care of all that needed to before and when he was put on restriction it was essentially he would do a lot of the traveling during the daytime but he took me along with him wherever he went because I guess I was still pre­school and when he'd go someplace he would just throw me in the car and take me with him so I remember all the places we went, all the farmers houses and things like that. When he left, I don't remember exactly when he left, but I know he went first to start taking 29