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[Imperial Gardens restaurant's one year anniversary, Los Angeles, California, October 26, 1955]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.560
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Small group of Japanese and Caucasian men and women celebrate the one year anniversary of Imperial Gardens restaurant in Los Angeles, California, October 26, 1955. Seven men and women stand on steps of restaurant, including owner George Furuta in bow tie, screenwriter Frances Marion, opera singer Tomiko Kanazawa, Japanese Consul General in Los Angeles Shigeru Nakamura (second from left), an RKO music director [Bakari Nerofu], and a songwriter [Hapu Brown]. Men wear suits; two women wear wraps over dresses and one wears a kimono.
Toyo Miyatake Studio
1958
Watanabe, Gunji
ca. 1945-1946
1900-1960
Uemura, Susan Hashizume
1953-1954