"The only time we ever got to go to the movies was on a holiday, the major holidays. And my mother didn't believe in playing cards. So we never had a deck of cards at home at all."

~ Bo T. Sakaguchi

"You went to a theatre you had to go sit upstairs…that happened quite often."

~ Ritsuo Takeuchi
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Beach Outing 1950

Photo contributed by:Bill Watanabe
Names of people: Kinjaro, Kasuye, Kinichi, Yukiyoshi, and Yukimichi Watanabe with Mrs. Ikeda and Betty Ikeda.
Date: 1950
Place: Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Photograph by: Unknown
Photo size: Unknown
Description: A beach outing with the Watanabe and Ikeda family in 1950.

© California State University, Northridge 2008
For more information about this project, please contact:
Edith Chen, Professor Asian American Studies Dept.
18111 Nordhoff St., JR 340
Northridge, CA 91330-8251
edith.chen@csun.edu
818-677-4966
Nancy Takayama
San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center
nt.high.mtn@juno.com