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[Taul Watanabe proposal for Shopping Center in Gardena and a hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955]
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.262
Description2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, May 12, 1955.;Developer Taul Watanabe presents proposal for Town and Country Shopping Center in Gardena, California, as well as a hotel in Little Tokyo at at luncheon at San Kwo Low restaurant in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955. Includes Watanabe standing solo with architectural rendering of "Gardena Shopping Center"; and four men, Watanabe, Bruce Kaji, Thomas S. Kunibe and architect Tosh Terazawa (far right), looking at architectural rendering of a proposed hotel in Little Tokyo.
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Watanabe, Gunji
ca. 1936-1937
Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948
Fukuhara, Henry
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