Community activities

Japanese Americans of the pre-World War II era, urban and rural dwellers alike, lived in tight-knit communities bound together by a wide variety of shared associations and institutions. In an era marked by pronounced anti-Asian racism, Japanese Americans in cities tended to live in segregated ghettoes. While discrimination was the reason for isolated Japanese American neighborhoods, the well-organized and tight-knit community provided a rich social and cultural foundation for the Japanese immigrants and their children.

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img Ninth Annual Landscape Gardeners Convention (ddr-jamsj-1-447)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-447/

img Some of the delegates (ddr-jamsj-1-514)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-514/

img Thank You, John and Francis (ddr-jamsj-1-163)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-163/

img Audience shot of the night's entertainment (ddr-jamsj-1-497)

Dinner reception for the Ninth Annual California Landscape Gardeners Convention held at Cabana Hotel.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-497/

img Boys and girls being divided for a game (ddr-jamsj-1-556)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-556/

img Hot Dogs! (ddr-jamsj-1-357)

Picnic

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-357/

img X-Mas Party- Helen and Lorraine Fujishin and Kids (ddr-jamsj-1-281)

Children Playing

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-281/

img Attendants of the 20th Anniversary (ddr-jamsj-1-623)

The 20th Anniversary Commemoration-Installation Dinner at Hyatt House.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-623/

img Speeches (ddr-jamsj-1-532)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-532/

img Men shaking hands (ddr-jamsj-1-632)

The 20th Anniversary Commemoration-Installation Dinner at Hyatt House.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-632/

img Band playing at convention reception (ddr-jamsj-1-480)

Dinner reception for the Ninth Annual California Landscape Gardeners Convention held at Cabana Hotel.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-480/

img Henry Morita, First President Garden City Gardeners' Club 1949-1950 (ddr-jamsj-1-206)

Outside Home. President of Club 1949-1950

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-206/

img N.C.L.G.A Bowling League Members (ddr-jamsj-1-237)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-237/

img Santa giving a little girl presents (ddr-jamsj-1-574)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-574/

img Portrait (ddr-jamsj-1-279)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-279/

img Speech (ddr-jamsj-1-624)

The 20th Anniversary Commemoration-Installation Dinner at Hyatt House.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-624/

img Lucheon (ddr-jamsj-1-195)

Seventh Annual Landscape Gardener's Convention held in Southern California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-195/

img Please Drop the Lifesaver (ddr-jamsj-1-284)

Children Playing

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-284/

img Dinner guests moving around (ddr-jamsj-1-540)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-540/

img Cleaning the catch (ddr-jamsj-1-522)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-522/

img N.C.F.G Meeting at Fourth Street Bowl, San Jose (ddr-jamsj-1-340)

Group Dinner

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-340/

img Ninth Annual Landscape Gardeners Convention booths and exhibits (ddr-jamsj-1-472)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-472/

img Japanese American and white men and boys at St. Marks church (ddr-densho-259-197)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "St. Marks Church in Hood River, showing [Masuo Yasui], several Issei men, a Caucasian minister, and remarkably, a Japanese minister not Isaac Inouye. St. Marks was either a Catholic or Episcopalian church--or maybe it was a Lutheran church. In any event, the two clerics are wearing their collars backwards, as Catholic and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-197/

img Nisei and Issei woman in California (ddr-densho-259-53)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Michi with [Shidzuyo Yasui]'s friend from Okayama-ken [Okayama prefecture, Japan]."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-53/

img "Gathering of Hood River Nikkei" (ddr-densho-259-33)

Group photograph of Nikkei living in Hood River, Oregon.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-33/