With his new twenty dollars, Fujita bought a three-day supply of Fig Newtons and Coca-Cola for the Chicago-bound train trip. As the train pulled away from the Southern Pacific Station in Oakland, he ate his first fig bar for lunch; one at breakfast as the train passed the Great Salt Lake; another for lunch as the train departed Green River, Wyoming; one for dinner during a stop in eastern Nebraska; and the last only for survival as the train rocked toward Chicago on August 12, 1953. He would never eat Fig Newtons again.
