Title:
Taro Kawa (left) and his first employee, Toshiharu Yamashita, both from Gila River, prepare for the June opening of Taro's
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Date:
1945-06-22
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Taro Kawa (left) and his first employee, Toshiharu Yamashita, both from Gila River, prepare for the June opening
of Taro's Enbun Company Fish Market at 248 East First Street in the heart of Bronzeville, formerly Little Tokyo. This is the
second returnee-operated enterprise in this district, which is now populated with 40,000 of Los Angeles' quarter of a million
Negroes, half of whom came to the city since the war. Before evacuation the fish market was located across the street. Taro
and his wife Toshiko are the parents of a baby boy, Steven Jin, born June 8 in Los Angeles--perhaps the first Nisei child
to have the City of the Angels as its birthplace since the year 1942. Taro's mother, Tomi, and his brother, Ken, who attends
Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, are living with them at the Kawa home, 216 South Soto Street. Next door to the fish
market is Uyeda's 5-10-25 cent store, Bronzeville's first returnee-operated business.<lb/> Photographer: Mace, Charles E.<lb/>
Los Angeles, California.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. H-775
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Taro Kawa (left) and his first employee, Toshiharu Yamashita, both from Gila River, prepare for the June opening of Taro's
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