Central Ave:
- 1925 - Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple built
- 1910 - Kayama Pool Hall
- 1914 - Mikawaya Goldfish
1945 - First Street Baptist Church - 1937 - Nisei-do, Refreshment Stand
1946 - Nisei Employment Agency - 1937 - Ebisu Cafe
- 1890 - Queen Hotel
1910 - Nihon Hotel
1926 - Dr. W. Tsukifuji, Dentist
1935 - Ushikawa Hotel - 1937 - Far East Cafe
- 1914 - Union Hotel
- 1914 - Yakko Sushi
1937 - Taiyo Drugstore - 1914 - Sato Shoten Books
1937 - Nichibei Pool Hall - 1925 - Tokiwayu Bath House
1937 - Takahashi Barber Shop
- 1914 - Ehine Prefectural Association
1925 - Nikko Law Chinese restaurant - 1939 - Japanese American Mirror
- 1937 - Seno Photo Supply
1947 - Dr. Kawahara, Dentist - 1914 - Terumi Miyatake moves Shofu-do here from Commercial Street
- 1914 - Mikado Hotel
1935 - Kurahara Clinic - 1914 - N. Kimura Restaurant
1946 - Nisei Grill - 1910 - Teikoku Hotel
- 1939 - Sato Books
- 1907 - Hotel Empire
1911 - Little Tokyo Hotel
1921 - Japanese Clinic
1946 - Sato House
- 1910 - Kii Shokai Foods
1937 - Chuo Shoes - 1910 - Golden Gate Pool Hall
1937 - Sumita Musical Instruments
1945 - Fellowship Center Adventist Church - 1937 - Moon Fish
1946 - Granada Market - 1914 - Panama House
1939 - Eagle Employment Agency - 1914 - Moon Fish
1935 - California Bank - 1910 - Chiyoda Hotel
- 1905 - Margaret Pierce, Furnished Rooms
1914 - T. Kato Midwife
1935 - Asahi Dyeworks - 1905 - Simon Axeldrod, Secondhand Goods
1910 - Kamya Shotel Foods
1935 - Tenri Restaurant - 1903 - Seiichi Kito opens original Fugetsu-do candy store on Weller St.
1914 - S. Hoshizaki Grocery
1930 - Fugetsu-do Moves Here
1941 - Kitos (who own Fugetso-do) interned at Heart Mountain - 1939 - Dr. Megumi Shinada
1946 - Nozaki Beauty Shoppe - 1905 - Manaka Restaurant
1913 - Yasujiro Kawasaki buys this property in his Nisei daughters' names. (Image of the Kawasaki Hotel facade)
1937 - Kawasaki opens Matsu-no Sushi - 1914 - Nakamura Fruits
1937 - Sumitomo Bank - 1937 - Lincoln Restaurant
- 1939 Fukuyama Hardware
- 1914 - E. Fukushima Bookstore
1925 - Iseri Pharmacy - 1905 - Joseph Cantzler, Barber
1910 - Bunrin-do Bookstore
- 1937 - Kataoka Jewelers
- 1905 - Miyagishima, Barber
- 1925 - San Pedro Firm Building established by flower growers as a warehouse converts to a residential hotel
- 1922 - Union Church is built as a religious and cultural center
1942 - Families awaiting detention gather here (Union Church)
- 1890 - Approximately 40 Japanese in Los Angeles
- 1913 - California uses Alien Land Act to keep Japanese nationals from owning land.
- 1930 - Almost all 35,000 Japanese in Los Angeles live within 3 mile radius of this corner (1st and San Pedro)
- 1932 - Little Tokyo celebrates Japanese athletes' victories
- 1934 - Nisei Week celebrations begin
- 1941 - FBI raids Issei associations for evidence of disloyalty
- 1942 - Little Tokyo becomes Bronzeville; African American jazz clubs and restaurants open
- 1942 - Japanese American Little Tokyo businesses close under force
- 1942 - Los Angeles County and City fire civil servants of Japanese extraction
- 1942 - U. S. Executive Order 9066 forces all Nikkei out of their homes and into interment camps at Amache, Gila, Jerome, Heart Mountain, Manzanar, Minidoka, Rohwer, Poston, Topaz, Tule Lake.
- 1942 - Toyo Miyatake secretly photographs conditions at Manzanar relocation center
- 1942 - During the war, Nisei soldiers in 442nd Regimental Combat Team win more than 18,000 decorations