i will never be young again or any younger than i am today. i will never be faster or more flexible. i will never win competitions against 22-year-old wrestlers in my weight class. i will never be a black belt. none of those things will happen, but none of that matters anymore. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder san francisco is changing. we all know it. you can t stop it. were you born here? yeah, both generations of my grandparents are from san francisco. my dad s side came out after the gold rush, so came here in the 1850s. author john birdsall grew up in this town, and he s a close observer of the changes happening here. you know, when i first came out to san francisco, i was making all the same sort of tired jokes that everybody from new york that comes out to san francisco the first time makes. you know, i thought it was all
extend your arm. your other (censored) arm. the arm around his neck goes long, like this. did you see the vacant lot across the street? that was san jose chinatown. right. it was built in 1887. that was first. that was first. it was a chinese community first. right. 1890 was when some of the first japanese arrived in this area.
community first. kurt: right, 1890 was when some of the first japanese arrived in this area. anthony: south bay, san jose. not much going on out here, other than world domination by a small group of tech companies. but on a happier, less paranoid note, san jose has one of the last three remaining japantowns in the country. anthony: who were the first japanese to come over? kurt: students, laborers looking for a better life. in traditional japanese families the first son inherited everything, so generally it was the second son who would get nothing who would come over. and when the first japanese came here one of the places they would stay at would be chinatown because you would have an asian community, they would be able to find food that was similar to japanese food, and kind of there would be a camaraderie. thank you. anthony: oh thank you. curt fukuda grew up in the area and his family, like thousands of other japanese americans, were interned in camps during world war ii.
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lot across the street? that was san jose chinatown. it was built in 1887. anthony: that was first. kurt: that was first. anthony: it was a chinese community first. kurt: right, 1890 was when some of the first japanese arrived in this area. anthony: south bay, san jose. not much going on out here, other than world domination by a small group of tech companies. but on a happier, less paranoid note, san jose has one of the last three remaining japantowns in the country. anthony: who were the first japanese to come over? kurt: students, laborers looking for a better life. in traditional japanese families the first son inherited everything, so generally it was the second son who would get nothing who would come over. and when the first japanese came here, one of the places they would stay at would be chinatown because you would have an asian community, they would be able to find food that was similar to japanese food, and kind of there would be a camaraderie. thank you. anth