0:00 - Familial makeup/ Occupation of parents

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Keywords: 1910; arranged marriage; Cairns; California; citrus orchard; eight children; emigrated to America; Family; farm; farmer; father; Issei parents; Jack; Japan; Lindsay; make money; marriage license; Masano; middle child; mother; nickname; nursery; Okayama; olive orchard; Otuemo; San Juaquin Valley; twins; wife

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5:45 - Family life/ Recreation, sports, and hobbies growing up

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Keywords: active; annual picnic; basketball; beer parlor; boulders; canyons; clear the land; discrimination; evacuation; farm; farming community; filial piety; food; football; Great Depression; happy; high school; house; Issei parents; Japanese; kendo; land owners; large family; lessons; mind elders; parents; pool hall; property; recreation; river; rocks; school; sports; swimming; swimming pool; tennis; track

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9:55 - Getting into mischief when young

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Keywords: chase animals; church; countryside; culvert; English; farm; farming community; father; fell; fire; Great Depression; home; Japanese; Japanese families; Japanese language school; Louis Crick; mischief; mother; olive orchard; Sunday; trouble; water run-off

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13:22 - Experiencing prejudice growing up in a small town

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Keywords: 1-8 grade; 2-room school; Boy Scouts; bus; California; Caucasian; community; country; discrimination; drive; family; grade school; Great Depression; high school; home; homeless; instigators; Lindsay; Los Angeles; Mexican; north; population; produce; railroad station; rowdy; San Francisco; semi-segregated school; shopping prejudice; small town; strawberry; swimming pool; town; train; tramps; travel restriction

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18:30 - Impressions of migrants from Oklahoma during the Great Depression

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Keywords: 1935; California; camp; cardboard shacks; Caucasians; Central Valley; children; compassion; coveralls; destitute; dirt floor; Dust Bowl; elementary school; Eucalyptus trees; farm; got along; Grapes of Wrath; Great Depression; grove; High School; house; Issei; Japanese American; Japanese farmers; Lindsay; lunch; Missouri; no shoes; Okies; Oklahoma; peaches; poor; prosperous; proud; seasonal; sympathy; workers

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25:17 - Homemade family meals

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Keywords: American meals; baker; bean; bologna; cake; Caucasians; chickens; English; family meals; fried potatoes; friends; gravy; hamburger; highway; homemade; jam; learning to cook; main road; Mexican; Mexican food; milk; miso; mother; neighbors; pie; rice; road kill; sandwiches; school; sign language; tortilla; trade; Tsukemono

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