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Here’s a later look at the same block, although not much later – about 1925. The photo was taken by Yoshiro Okawa, whose Aiko Photographic Studio is upstairs in the corner building, kitty-korner across 6th Ave. and Jackson. For years Okawa’s fine photography “at reasonable prices” was a neighborhood given – until1942 when the Okawa family, and all Japanese persons in the district were shipped off to internment. Since they could take with them only what they could carry, Yoshiro Okawa’s years of work were destroyed, except for prints that were in other hands. This and about 20 other neighborhood recordings made for the Rainier Power Coompany that financed the building of the Bush Hotel – and much else – were among the saved Okawa images. (Courtesy, Tomio Moriguchi)

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