Robert jim nagareda, a long time jtown resident and photographer, historian, and author of images of america san joses japantown. Jim my main focus through the whole book was the people. Its the people, and the activities, the things that they did. And this community is very unique. And so, thats really what i wanted to capture. A lot of people in this area were into agriculture. And when they came back from the incarceration camps, they found other ways of employment. And it was difficult for them. A lot of them became gardeners. You know, in japantown, we had several barbers, we hadit was pharmacies and things like that. Foryou know, cause the Japanese Community wanted to support other japanese, and they felt very comfortable working with other japanese. So, all theall the Different Things that you needed were located in one area. And you can actually go to you know, through preschool here, and you can have all your church, and all the way up to where yuai kai, where theyre serving s
Robert jim nagareda, a long time jtown resident and photographer, historian, and author of images of america san joses japantown. Jim my main focus through the whole book was the people. Its the people, and the activities, the things that they did. And this community is very unique. And so, thats really what i wanted to capture. A lot of people in this area were into agriculture. And when they came back from the incarceration camps, they found other ways of employment. And it was difficult for them. A lot of them became gardeners. You know, in japantown, we had several barbers, we hadit was pharmacies and things like that. Foryou know, cause the Japanese Community wanted to support other japanese, and they felt very comfortable working with other japanese. So, all theall the Different Things that you needed were located in one area. And you can actually go to you know, through preschool here, and you can have all your church, and all the way up to where yuai kai, where theyre serving s
From the February 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY BEN FONG-TORRES I love guitars, and I’ve had a few sitting in my office for years, but it took hip surgery for me to begin playing one of them. Actually, one of them wasn’t a real guitar, but a wall clock in the shape of one, with an illustration of…