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OK. So today is March ninth and

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we are in Fresno interviewing Co and
I'm Jill Sharkey and Tommy Kedah.

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Is also Cohen if you. And Dana her
she didn't is our camera person. So

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can you state your name and tell us where
where and when you were born. They miss

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Kenji Morrocco born in Fresno
December thirteen nineteen

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twenty and can you tell us your parents'

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names and my father's name
was the way my recall

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and my mother they call the. And where

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were your parents from and when did they
come to the United States father was born

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in Hawaii on

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a plantation went back to the bad and
the bad went through high school

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. And then he came to the United States
landed in San Francisco and then came in to

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Clovis and he was farming in Clovis
after three years he sold the farm

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to another Japanese family and
then he purchased the Cyclery

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nine hundred fifteen one thousand.
And that crew he sold the rights

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. He would he had three bad years. And
when he saw all the rats that fell of that

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body. Hit it big on the fourth year. They
had their bicycles help back in that

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hundred fifty and the bicycles
at that time was the more of the

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cart version of the present
day. So Mr Rocky be the

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correspondent for his in the
area. He said that he bought the

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soccer yet the right time because
it was the car version of today.

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But after that cars came on that's really
the bicycle business went and then my mom

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she was born in. Guy nado
in Japan and she went

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through high school and she married
my dad. And she came to the United

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States and nineteen
seventeen or eighteen and

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that's when of course my dad had this shop
already so they lived in Fresno. So they

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knew each other in Japan. No they didn't
know. So it was an arranged it was

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a more of those big thinking about her back
that you know back there they were the

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picture brides Yeah but what's interesting
is your father was born in Hawaii. Yeah

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. So I guess that would make you saw
something so you're probably the oldest song

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saying all round. You know that there
was other songs before me through but

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they're gone. You know. And in your father
did he speak English they are all he had

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he was perfect English because
he went through school in my

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school and I think he's in San Francisco
and also he took lessons here in town from

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an attorney's wife. Forgot
the why. So it turned his

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name and you hear a comeback.