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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHM_taihei-hotel_San-Jose-CA.html
Mr. Taketa built this hotel around 1915 to accommodate traveling businessmen and dignitaries to San Jose. There used to be a lot of people playing the game Go in the lobby.Jimi Yamaichi, 2007
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHL_kawakami-building_San-Jose-CA.html
When folks came back from the internment camps many of them were helped a lot by a local businessman, Torahiko Kawakami. He worked through the Buddhist Church hostel to resettle people and to get them back on their feet. He became known as Japanto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHK_ideal-laundry_San-Jose-CA.html
Ideal Laundry designed and built especially for laundry work and housed in a handsome, two-story fireproof brick building, erected as a cost of $30,000. This new enterprise was founded by I. Tsurukawa, one of the leading men in the local Japanese …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHJ_ken-ying-low_San-Jose-CA.html
Ken Ying Low was renowned for its homemade noodles, and visitors from Sacramento and San Francisco would always stop at the restaurant for "the best chow mein." There were several generation of excellent cooks, and one remembered was Ng Guey. Chil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZGM_old-japantown-garage_San-Jose-CA.html
Card playing was a social outlet. When I was young, my grandfather brought me here when he stopped to see his friends. The windows were soaped to prevent people from peering in. I was only allowed to sit on a stool and watch the card games. The ga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZGL_asahi-baseball_San-Jose-CA.html
They built a baseball diamond with the homeplate on the Jackson and Sixth Street corner and the outfield towards the railroad tracks. Rightfield was shorter and leftfield went on across Seventh Street. The centerfield was much lower than homeplate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZGJ_sumo-ring-site_San-Jose-CA.html
People also made a sumo wresting ring in the baseball grounds and had tournaments. Dr. James Dobashi was the strongest then. Nobody could even be compared with him.Dr. Isamu Kawamura
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZGI_takalkni-printing_San-Jose-CA.html
There were several pool halls, but no gambling houses in Japantown. However a Japanese-operated print shop on Jackson Street which made cannery labels, printed lottery tickets for the Chinese. A gambling "runner" would come from Chinatown regularl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZGG_dobashi-market_San-Jose-CA.html
"... you come upon the boiled eel, the quail's eggs, the dried seaweed, and the squid like root called gobo, as well as the crinkly cabbage Japanese call napa and Korean pickled radishes packed in Hawaii and small cans of shrimp paste imported fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZG6_jackson-drugs_San-Jose-CA.html
I have been at this corner most of my life being born in the midwife house across the street. Nothing has changed in the neighborhood, except the people. I've seen Tokunaga go, Hashimoto's Drug store across the street become a golf shop, Tom and M…