Omoide No Shotokyo

Business listings from the sidewalk (walking east to west):

Central Ave:

• 1925 - Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple built

1st St.:

• 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

Judge John Aiso St. (San Pedro St.):

• 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)

Historic events listed on the sidewalk (in chronological order):

• 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

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