On Marine Way (Alaska Route 7) at South Franklin Street (Alaska Route 7), on the left when traveling west on Marine Way.
Panel 1:
The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly Honors the Contributions of Filipinos in Juneau by naming this downtown location MANILA SQUARE
Juneau Assembly Members: Dale Anderson - Don Etheridge, Jr. - Jeannie Johnson - Ken . . . — — Map (db m68849) HM
On Stedman Street north of Thomas Street, on the right when traveling north.
Laws restricting Chinese and Japanese immigration in the 1920s resulted in a wave of Filipinos coming to work in Ketchikan's booming canneries. These “Alaskeros,” as they called themselves, began to live here permanently and make long-lasting . . . — — Map (db m182101) HM
On Stedman Street south of Creek Street, on the right when traveling north.
Adventurous Japanese-Americans George and Yayoko Shimizu immigrated to Ketchikan in search of opportunity. Around 1903, they opened the New York Café on downtown Front Street.
Ketchikan was divided racially then. Whites lived north of Ketchikan . . . — — Map (db m182073) HM
On Stedman Street south of Creek Street, on the left when traveling south.
Around 1900, adventurous Japanese pioneer George Ohashi came to Ketchikan and opened the New York Café on Front Street. This was the beginning of a three-generation Ohashi family career of entrepreneurial activities.
In 1907, Ohashi built this . . . — — Map (db m182044) HM
On Stedman Street south of Creek Street, on the left when traveling south.
Across the great divide: Stedman started apart
Ketchikan Creek formed a dividing line in Ketchikan in the early 1900s. To the north, white pioneers' homes, schools and churches stair-stepped up the hill and businesses crowded the waterfront. . . . — — Map (db m182050) HM
On Stedman Street at Thomas Street, on the right when traveling north on Stedman Street.
Kichirobei (“Jimmy”) Tatsuda and his wife, Sen Seike, started a combination grocery store, pool hall, tobacco shop and boarding house in 1910.
In 1916, the Tatsudas opened their first grocery store in a nearby building. It was truly a family . . . — — Map (db m182093) HM
On Stedman Street south of Creek Street, on the left when traveling south.
Stedman Street was a congenial place for Japanese immigrants and their families up to the 1940s. Japanese-born miners, fishermen, laborers and entrepreneurs settled across the creek from downtown and founded families. Japanese-Americans from the . . . — — Map (db m182058) HM
On South 3rd Street south of East Allen Street, on the right when traveling south.
In 1879 there were 11 people in Tombstone of Chinese descent. By 1882 there were 250. The area between 2nd and 3rd and Allen and Toughnut was the area where they lived and had businesses, commonly called "Hoptown". The Chinese ran laundries, . . . — — Map (db m131096) HM
On Mohave Road, 11.7 miles south of Arizona Route 95, on the right when traveling north.
[ The single 30 foot concrete pillar of the monument symbolizes "unity of spirit". The hexagonal base represents a Japanese stone lantern. The 12 small pillars situated around the monument make it a working sundial. Mounted on the 30 foot pillar . . . — — Map (db m32258) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
Where you now see cotton fields, 432 barracks once housed about 8,000 Japanese Americans.The Camp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence linking eight guard towers from which armed guards watched the camp and internees. The cam was divided by . . . — — Map (db m170077) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
Years of discrimination and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led to the forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans. All Japanese Americans on the West Coast were affected by the forced evacuation - including women and . . . — — Map (db m169429) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
Internees tried to re-create a life they might have lived
outside of confinement.
Earning money in camp was a constant struggle for internees, bills still had
to be paid on property left behind and everyone needed to buy clothes, . . . — — Map (db m169434) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
The memorial includes inscriptions on four sides. Dedicated to the Patriotic Japanese-American men from Rohwer Internment Camp who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country in World War II. U.S. Fifth Army 100 Battalion 442 . . . — — Map (db m170092) HM
Near State Highway 1 north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
The Rohwer internment camp included a 500-acre area for internee living quarters and more than 10,000 acres of surrounding land for farming and timber harvesting.Officially labeled a relocation center, the internment camps for Japanese . . . — — Map (db m167628) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
Plaque Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery Has Been Designated A National Historic Landmark This Site Possesses National Significance In Commemorating The History Of The United States of America 1992 . . . — — Map (db m167617) HM
Near Arkansas Route 1 north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
The U.S. entry into World War II led to the forced removal of-
nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast
The Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7,
1941, and America declared war on Japan the next day. . . . — — Map (db m167967) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
Babies were born, children went to school, adults had jobs, and some people died here during the three years that the Rohwer camp operated. The traditional Japanese family structure was threatened by the camp's communal living conditions: . . . — — Map (db m170078) HM
Near State Highway 1, 0.5 miles north of Rohwer Road, on the left when traveling north.
The relocation center sites were chosen because of their distance from the West
Coast and for their suitability and isolation as secured, closed camps. Inside The Relocation Center The loss of their former lives was profound for the . . . — — Map (db m169430) HM
On U.S. 165 near Ellington Farm Road (County Road 210), on the right when traveling north.
On February 19, 1942, Pres. Franklin
Roosevelt signed into law Executive
Order No. 9066, interning over 120,000
persons of Japanese ancestry, and
this act irrevocably changed their
lives. The majority of these people
were American citizens. As . . . — — Map (db m170318) HM
On Clement Street at Walnut Street on Clement Street.
Alameda Taiku Kai
(Alameda Athletic Club)
During the years 1916-1938 this was the approximate location
of home plate of the Alameda Japanese American ATK Baseball
Field. Games were played on week-ends against other Japanese
American and top . . . — — Map (db m145337) HM
On Park Street east of Pacific Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Traces of Alameda Japantown
Opening up shops on Park Street
Traces of a small close-knit Japanese community remain, yet little is known of the Japantown that once thrived in Alameda. At the turn of the 20th century, Issei, first generation . . . — — Map (db m220123) HM
On Pacific Avenue north of Park Street, on the right when traveling north.
Life That Connects Us All
We strive to practice gratitude and compassion and to understand the interdependence of life that connects us.
Buddhist Temple of Alameda
In 1916, the Buddhist Temple of Alameda became an independent temple . . . — — Map (db m220508) HM
On Buena Vista Avenue south of Oak Street, on the right when traveling north.
A Beacon of Light
Our doors open outwards, welcoming those needing support, nurturing faith, and instilling hope.
Buena Vista Church serves as a beacon of light, drawing in those seeking refuge. Offering the warmth of a night school . . . — — Map (db m223217) HM
On Oak Street at Times Way, on the right when traveling east on Oak Street.
Becoming a Japantown
A neighborhood planted, a community flourished
With the growth of Japantown, the Tonarigumi, or cohesive neighborhood, began to take shape as Japanese immigrants settled in dwellings, cottages and Victorian flats, . . . — — Map (db m223699) HM
On Alston Way at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, on the right when traveling west on Alston Way.
Bobby Seale
class of 1954, while attending Merrit
College, he joined the Afro-American
Association (AAA) and met Huey P.
Newton. Together in 1966, they founded
the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
Jean Yonemura Wing
class of . . . — — Map (db m154869) HM
On Hearst Avenue at Milvia Street on Hearst Avenue.
By the late 1960s, a new generation of political activists emerged in Berkeley from protests opposing the
Vietnam War and supporting the Farmworkers, Free Speech, and Civil Rights movements. In May 1968, in an
apartment on this site, Yuji Ichioka . . . — — Map (db m154322) HM
On Telegraph Avenue at Dwight Way, on the right when traveling south on Telegraph Avenue.
Always go with nature, anywhere, in any circumstance, with gratitude.
The renowned and highly respected Japanese American artist Chiura Obata was a popular member of
the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley from 1932 to . . . — — Map (db m122842) HM
Between 1860 and the 1920s, the Meeks grew grains, green peas, corn, sugar beets, cucumbers, blackberries, and currants. Most of their land was in orchards of almonds, oranges, apricots, peaches, prunes, plums, and cherries. Meek’s land was . . . — — Map (db m210340) HM
Owner of the first Japanese restaurant in Hayward California (Kokeshi)
A caring and giving person, known for her generosity and kindness. She exemplifies the American dream. We will all miss her and never forget her. — — Map (db m207577) HM
WHEN THE PONDS AROUND YOU were first built,
producing salt by solar evaporation required intense labor and
a lot of time. Workers had to move seawater from San Francisco
Bay (only 2.5% salt content) through a series of evaporation
ponds to . . . — — Map (db m174878) HM
Near Woodland Court at Figone Way, on the right when traveling west.
Coast Manufacturing and Supply Co. moved to this site in the early 1900s and produced fuse line for explosives. Between 1913 and 1926 Coast hired Chinese immigrants to work in the powder houses located just to the north of this grove of trees. These . . . — — Map (db m198579) HM
Near Skyline Boulevard, 0.5 miles north of Joaquin Miller Road.
Dedicated on August 7, 1992, by E Company Veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated United States Army Unit of World War II. The all volunteer 442nd Combat Team was composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry, from the . . . — — Map (db m64182) HM WM
The idea for the Chinese junk (boat) came
from the voyage of the real junk "Free
China” from Taiwan to San Francisco in
1955. The idea originally involved the purchase
of an actual junk for the playground, but
eventually developed into a . . . — — Map (db m157313) HM
Near 10th Street near Alice Street, on the right when traveling east. Reported damaged.
This marker is made up of two markers and two plaques on the same monument.
One Community, Many Locations
Chinese first settled in Oakland in the 18502 during the California Gold Rush. Unlike San Francisco’s Chinatown, Oakland’s . . . — — Map (db m72762) HM
Look carefully. Comparing today’s Japanese Tea House with early pictures, you will notice many differences. The first tea house in Piedmont Park was built by Frank C. Havens and opened on June 30, 1907. It was a replica of the late-fifteenth century . . . — — Map (db m72318) HM
Public outcry led Oakland councilman George Pardee, who later became Governor of California, to campaign Contra Costa Water Company for a clean reliable water system. The Hyatt filters were installed, along with pump houses and filtration basins, . . . — — Map (db m113822) HM
The stone structure before you is a 157 foot vertical control shaft. It joins to Tunnel No. 1 to open and close the flow of water running through the tunnel pipes. Two known accidents took place at this site. Tunnel No. 1 collapsed on two Chinese . . . — — Map (db m71908) HM
In 1979 a renovation of Chabot dam unearthed a century-old Chinese encampment buried in the creek embankment below. California State University Hayward (now called California State University, East Bay) was contracted and students excavated over . . . — — Map (db m71711) HM
Near Estudillo Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
In February 1874 a large Chinese work force entered this woodland setting to begin construction of San Leandro Reservoir. Later renamed Lake Chabot after its French-Canadian originator Anthony Chabot, the dam was built using techniques Chabot . . . — — Map (db m71648) HM
Near Estudillo Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Many of the trees surrounding you have foreign roots, each with its own tale. In 1868 the Hayward Journal described Chabot’s plans to encircle the reservoir with “walnut, hickory nuts, butternuts, and other eastern and foreign nut trees.” These . . . — — Map (db m71650) HM
Near Estudillo Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
The Alameda County Historical Society dedicates this panel to:
Ah Bing – 41, Kim Yuen – 29, Toy Sing – 31, and Lock Sing – 33, who died outside this tunnel. This panel is also dedicated to the countless unnamed and unsung Chinese laborers . . . — — Map (db m71651) HM
On East Main Street at Eldorado Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.
Looking North from this monument lies 5.22 acres which was originally deeded to Ky Kee, Hop Wah Chung, Quong On Long and Chang Hang Co. in 1883. Known as Chinatown, the community was comprised of stores, homes and a Joss House. At the peak of . . . — — Map (db m42397) HM
On Broderick Street, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated in the spring of 1863, this building served as a temple of worship for 10,000 Chinese then living here. Funds for its erection and furnishings were provided by the Emperor and Empress of China and local Chinese labor built the structure. . . . — — Map (db m100599) HM
On Feather River Boulevard at Gold Dredge, on the right when traveling south on Feather River Boulevard.
This cemetery was established in 1850 during the Gold Rush days to serve the Chinese communities of Lava Beds, Bagdad, Bidwell Bar and Ophir City (now Oroville). The last burial here was in 1944. — — Map (db m61494) HM
On Birds Way east of South Main Street (California Highway 49), on the left when traveling east.
This building, once owned by Sam Choy, is the only building remaining from a large Chinese settlement here in early Gold Rush days. Now owned by the City of Angels Camp. — — Map (db m31889) HM
On Main Street east of 8th Street, on the right when traveling east.
In the 1850s, Chinese came to California, a land they called Gum Shan, meaning Mountain of Gold, for the same reason as other nationalities: to seek their fortune. As the placer gold played out, Chinese took jobs building railroads, dams, levees, . . . — — Map (db m54986) HM
On San Pablo Avenue south of Manila Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
(front or street side:)
"My parents were given much help
(from the Adachis and Nabetas)
digging a well by hand and building
their house. Much help was given on
how to grow the flowers as well as
how to build the greenhouses. . . . — — Map (db m145945) HM
On San Pablo Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
(front or street side:)
"At four in the morning they would
start preparing the flowers for market.
Grandfather would carefully put the
flowers in a basket and sling it over
his shoulder. Grandmother, carrying
a lantern, would lead him . . . — — Map (db m156299) HM
On San Pablo Avenue south of Manila Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
In front of you is the last remaining structure of El Cerrito's once vibrant Japanese American flower growing industry: the former storefront of Contra Costa Florist which was owned by the Mabuchi Family.
Hikojiro and Tomi Mabuchi, aided . . . — — Map (db m145944) HM
On San Pablo Avenue south of Manila, on the right when traveling north.
The Japanese military's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 formally brought America into World War II. Newspapers, politicians, and military officials invented or exaggerated the threat of disloyalty by Japanese Americans. Groups including . . . — — Map (db m157883) HM
On San Pablo Avenue at Wall Avenue, on the left when traveling north on San Pablo Avenue.
In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrants planted the seeds of a remarkable nursery community in El Cerrito and Richmond. These nurseries were located mostly west of San Pablo Avenue and north of Portrero Avenue. After interment during World War II, . . . — — Map (db m94249) HM
On San Pablo Avenue south of Manila Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
1885 First Domoto nursery opens in Oakland. The Domotos pioneer California's Japanese American nursery industry and create its wholesale market.
1902 Yataro Nabeta founds the first Japanese American nursery in Contra Costa County, near . . . — — Map (db m146036) HM
Memorial Tree
This Gingko tree is dedicated in recognition of the contributions of Chinese laborers who toiled in anonymity at the Hercules Powder Works Factory from 1881 until 1912.
(Chinese text not transcribed) — — Map (db m174519) HM
Near Marina Vista Avenue near Castro Street, on the right when traveling west.
The City of Martinez has been the home of a train station along the waterfront for 125 years. The first station (approximately 200 yards to the east of this site) was erected in 1876 and closed in 2001 when this station was opened.
More than . . . — — Map (db m93542) HM
Following the California Gold Rush of ’49, swarms of Chinese miners came to make their mark on the diggings in the Mother Lode, including this Coloma Valley. They were industrious and self-contained and mostly content to thoroughly comb the old . . . — — Map (db m12225) HM
Near State Highway 49. Reported permanently removed.
These two stone buildings known as the Wah Hop and Man Lee Stores were built by Jonas Wilder before 1860and leased to Chinese merchants. Located at the edge of a large Chinese community, they sold traditional foods, clothing and other items. Such . . . — — Map (db m12227) HM
On Coloma Road (California Route 49) north of Mt Murphy Road, on the right when traveling south.
Between 1850 and 1883, Coloma was home to a sizeable Chinese community. These stone buildings, known as the man Lee and Wah Hop stores, are all that remain.
Chinese merchants supplied their countrymen with mining necessities and . . . — — Map (db m215013) HM
On State Highway 49, on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
A large brick building measuring 50 feet by 65 feet, was built here in 1856. Two older frame structures were demolished and were sorely missed by the “old-timers” of that day. The brick for this store probably came from a brickyard 2 miles south of . . . — — Map (db m12273) HM
Near Coloma Road (California Route 49) north of Mt Murphy Road.
Caught up in the frenzied news about the gold discovery, thousand of gold seekers from all corners of the world flooded into Coloma.
Fortune Seekers
California’s gold fields offered boundless opportunity and the hop of a brighter future. . . . — — Map (db m214879) HM
On Cold Springs Road, on the right when traveling north.
Site of the only tea and silk farm established in California. First agricultural settlement of pioneer Japanese immigrants who arrived at Gold Hill on June 8, 1869. Despite the initial success, it failed to prosper. It marked the beginning of . . . — — Map (db m76181) HM
On Pacific Street, 0.1 miles east of California Highway 49, on the right when traveling west.
The last remaining building
of the Gold Rush era Chinese community
in Old Hangtown
Stone House is famous
for its historical significance
as an old Chinese brothel
Restored by
John R. Berry – Attorney at Law
Architectural . . . — — Map (db m36815) HM
On Elm Avenue (California Route 33.198) at Phelps Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Elm Avenue.
Harry Watanabe was 19 years old when he came to Coalinga from Japan in 1915. Watanabe first worked at Ayers Drug Store and the Sullivan Hotel. It was in 1928 that Watanabe found his niche in life and the vocation that left his mark on Coalinga. . . . — — Map (db m64107) HM
On Kern Street at China Alley, on the right when traveling south on Kern Street.
In 1874 600 people moved to what is now Fresno. Of those, 200 were Chinese, who made the brick and helped start the building of Fresno. A short time later, they were persuaded to settle west of the train tracks. They built an area of shops, which . . . — — Map (db m52981) HM
Near South Chance Avenue, 0.2 miles Kings Canyon Road, on the left when traveling south.
This memorial is dedicated to over 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined at the Fresno Fairgrounds from May to October 1942. This was an early phase of the mass incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II . . . — — Map (db m165490) HM
On F Street, 0.1 miles west of Kern Street, on the right when traveling west.
Kogetsu-Do
A Fresno landmark. Confectioner Kogetsu - Do has survived in the same location it has occupied for 99 Years. Sugimatsu Ikeda and his wife Sakino started the business in 1915 and were able to purchase this building on "F" Street in . . . — — Map (db m101863) HM
On F Street at Route 101, on the left when traveling south on F Street.
Here, on the block of land bounded by E, F, 4th, and 5th streets, over 300 Chinese people once lived in a bustling Chinatown. But high unemployment, economic uncertainty, and a perceived competition for jobs served as excuses for anti-Chinese hate. . . . — — Map (db m233370) HM
This auditorium is one of three original buildings remaining here from Manzanar War Relocation Center. As you walk closer, listen for laughter, tears, music—the sounds of celebration and sadness that once echoed through this building’s . . . — — Map (db m122704) HM WM
On Manzanar Reward Road west of U.S. 395, on the right when traveling south.
From 1942 to 1945, eight US Army guard
towers loomed over the more than 11,000
Japanese Americans held in Manzanar. For
most of that time, US Military Police manned
the towers, a visual reminder that the
unconstitutionally incarcerated . . . — — Map (db m221511) HM
Over the years, this monument has become an icon, inspiring a grass-roots movement to preserve Manzanar and remember the sacrifices of 120,313 Japanese Americans confined by their own government. — — Map (db m70549) HM
Near U.S. 395 at Manzanar Reward Road, on the left when traveling north.
Here at Manzanar's main baseball field,
thousands of fans gathered for epic match-ups
between the Scorpions, Padres, Has Beens, and
other teams in the camp's 12 leagues. Baseball
was a powerful symbol of an American way of
life that boosted . . . — — Map (db m243190) HM
Life at Manzanar was uncertain, but the prospect of dying behind barbed wire, far from home, may have been unthinkable. On May 16, 1943, Matsunosuke Murakami, 62, became the first of 150 men, women, and children to die in camp. He and 14 others, . . . — — Map (db m70534) WM
America went to work for the war effort in 1942, and Manzanar was no exception. More than 500 young Japanese Americans wove camouflage nets here for the U.S. Army. Since citizenship was a job requirement, most saw weaving nets as a chance to prove . . . — — Map (db m70551) HM
The Chinese community was an early and significant element of the population of Kern County.
Chinese immigrants contributed to the social, economic and industrial growth of Kern County by mining, farming, building railroads, and owning . . . — — Map (db m25318) HM
On East F Street, on the right when traveling east.
Avelino Martinez was of Mexican, Indian and Chinese descent, four feet-four inches tall and thirteen years of age when he came with a group of drovers to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, searching for his father. He worked as a groom for . . . — — Map (db m52918) HM
Near Huntington Drive west of Baldwin Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Early in 1942 the US government designated Santa Anita Park for special usage during the war years.
Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from March 30, 1942 until October 27, 1942 the facility was used as . . . — — Map (db m165491) HM
In Memory of more than 200,000 Asian and Dutch women who were removed from their homes in Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, East Timor, and Indonesia, to be coerced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Armed . . . — — Map (db m138945) HM WM
This plaque was dedicated on the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association to honor the citizens of both cities who are dedicated to each through personal diplomacy. November 8, 2013
Bob . . . — — Map (db m73101) HM
On Fickett Street at 1st Street, on the right when traveling south on Fickett Street.
Immigrant Japanese doctors prevailed in 1928 U.S. Supreme Court case.
Cultural Heritage Commission
Cultural Monument No. 1131.
City of Los Angeles — — Map (db m230009) HM
On 1st Street just east of Mathews Street, on the right when traveling east.
aka Otemo Sushi Cafe.
Established 1956
in Boyle Heights.
Oldest continuously operating
Japanese restaurant in the
City of Los Angeles.
Japanese characters:
Mr/Miss Otomi — — Map (db m223360) HM
Near Broadway north of College Street, on the left when traveling north.
The Bruce Lee Statue Project is a community initiative aimed at
celebrating the life and legacy of Bruce Lee through the placement of a
statue in Los Angeles Chinatown. Bruce Lee's contributions to martial
arts and action films were truly . . . — — Map (db m219261) HM
On Yale Street south of College Street, on the left when traveling south.
Old School
Castelar School is the second oldest school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the first to hire a Chinese-American principal, and has taught the largest number of refugee children in the city. Castelar was . . . — — Map (db m219344) HM
On Broadway at Alpine Street, on the right when traveling south on Broadway.
Population Explosion
Although official immigration quotas had
been limited to just 105 annually after the
Exclusion Acts were overturned in 1943,
many immigrants entered the country
through the 1945 War Brides Act and . . . — — Map (db m229254) HM
On Broadway north of College Street, on the left when traveling north.
Chinatown Redefined
In 1933, when Old Chinatown was torn
down to make way for the construc
tion of Union Station, everyone began
to think about what form a new Chinese
community might take. Peter Soo Hoo,
the first Chinese hired . . . — — Map (db m219859) HM
On Bernard Street west of Broadway, on the right when traveling west.
Victorian Remains
The houses at 411 and 415 Bernard Street — today home to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and Chinatown Heritage and Visitors Center — were once part of a three-home complex built by Philip . . . — — Map (db m219848) HM
On Los Angeles Street north of U.S. 101, on the right when traveling south.
Due to cultural needs and social discrimination, Chinese Americans formed distinct communities
in Los Angeles. They established their first Los Angeles community on the east side of what is
today's El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. . . . — — Map (db m229242) HM
On Los Angeles Street north of U.S. 101, on the right when traveling south.
Chinese immigrants established their first community in Los Angeles in what is now part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. By 1870 about two hundred Chinese had settled in
Los Angeles Street across from the Garnier Building, then . . . — — Map (db m140033) HM
On Broadway north of Ord Street, on the left when traveling north.
Dragons On Parade
Nothing in Western culture compares to the celebration of Chinese
New Year, which is why each
year 50,000 spectators gather
along North Broadway to
join in the festivities and
watch the Golden Dragon
Parade. . . . — — Map (db m219839) HM
On Los Angeles Street north of U.S. 101, on the right when traveling south.
Philippe Garnier, a settler from Gap, France, hired Abraham Edelman to design this brick and sandstone building for Chinese tenants. This was the oldest and most significant building of the original Chinatown of Los Angeles which was located here. . . . — — Map (db m155778) HM
On Broadway north of Ord Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Sepulveda House
The family that owns the
building at 706 North Broadway can trace its roots in
Los Angeles back to July
31, 1847, when the Ayuntamiento (Common Council)
deeded a piece of property bordered by what was
then . . . — — Map (db m229753) HM
On Spring Street at Ord Street, on the right when traveling south on Spring Street.
"Chinese Movie Land"
China City — bordered by Ord, Spring,
and Main streets — pandered unabashedly to Chinese stereotypes. The entire
block was enclosed within a miniature
"Great Wall." Tourists rode rickshaws
down the "Passage . . . — — Map (db m229918) HM
Near Broadway north of College Street, on the left when traveling north.
Sun Mun Way was named in honor
of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Dr. Sun was a
revolutionary and the ideological
father of modern China. He became
the first President of the
Republic of China. Educated in
Hawaii, he came to Los Angeles in
1905 to gather . . . — — Map (db m219254) HM
On Los Angeles Street just north of U.S. 101, on the right when traveling south.
The Sun Wing Wo Company was one of the first general merchandise stores in the original
Chinatown. The owner, Ow Bue Lew opened its doors in 1891. The store remained in business on
this site until it was relocated to Broadway in 1948.
. . . — — Map (db m229244) HM
On Los Angeles Street north of U.S. 101, on the right when traveling south.
The Garnier Building was built in 1890 by Philippe Garnier, a French settler who arrived in Los
Angeles in 1859 at the age of eighteen. Philippe Garnier and his brothers, Eugene, Abel, and
Camille, owned the 4,400 acre Rancho Los Encinos in . . . — — Map (db m229248) HM
On North Broadway just north of Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Los Angeles' historic Chinatown has long served as a gateway for countless Chinese and Asian
immigrants coming to the United States. To commemorate this historic fact, the Los Angeles
Chinatown Community, City of Los Angeles Community . . . — — Map (db m183620) HM
On North Broadway just north of Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Los Angeles' historic Chinatown has long served as a gateway for countless Chinese and Asian
immigrants coming to the United States. To commemorate this historic fact, the Los Angeles
Chinatown Community, City of Los Angeles Community . . . — — Map (db m228170) HM
On Hill Street, 0.1 miles north of College Street, on the right when traveling north.
"Cooperate to Achieve"
At the grand opening of New Chinatown in 1938, guests passed through the
West Gate - the first of Chinatown's four
gates to be constructed. Chinese
Consul T.K. Chang composed an
inscription for the top of . . . — — Map (db m219856) HM
Rising to the defense of their
country, by the thousands they came
- these young Japanese American
soldiers from Hawaii, the States,
America's concentration camps - to fight in Europe and the Pacific
during World War II. Looked upon
with . . . — — Map (db m227990) HM
On Central Avenue just south of 1st Street, on the right when traveling south.
The mural, Home is Little Tokyo is the culmination of three years of work by almost 500 individuals, groups and organizations. At over 130 years old, Little Tokyo is
the heart of the Southern California Japanese American community. The . . . — — Map (db m228144) HM
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