Title:
The new Methodist Hostel at 3508 South Normandie, Los Angeles, which opened June 12, 1945, to accommodate 70 people eventually.
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Date:
1945-06-25
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:The new Methodist Hostel at 3508 South Normandie, Los Angeles, which opened June 12, 1945, to accommodate 70 people
eventually. It occupies the former Westlake Chapel of the Japanese Methodist Church next door, of which Rev. Yuzuru Yamaka
is again minister as well as hostel manager. The Yamaka family returned June 1 from Amache, and when this picture was taken
Rev. Yamaka's son George and his family were visiting them from Nevada where George is in business. Shown are (left to right):
Wesley Yamaka, 16; Mrs. Masako Yamako, George's wife; little Miss Georgianne, George's daughter; Rev. Yuzuru Yamaka and his
wife; Pvt. William Yamaka; George Yamaka; Pvt. Woodrow Yamaka. Woodrow was with the 442nd Infantry overseas, and William,
also with 442nd, was a prisoner of war in Germany. A fifth son, the oldest, also a Nisei, was in business in the Philippines
when war broke out and has not been heard from since.<lb/> Photographer: Mace, Charles E.<lb/> Los Angeles, California.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. H-785
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The new Methodist Hostel at 3508 South Normandie, Los Angeles, which opened June 12, 1945, to accommodate 70 people eventually.
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