Dave Tatsuno Collection (91.74.1-8)
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Dave Tatsuno (1913-2006) was well known in the Bay Area Nikkei community for operating the Nichi Bei Bussan stores in San Jose and San Francisco, California. His interest in making movies began in 1936 and resulted in this collection of home movies, consisting of eight 8mm films (3 color and 5 black & white) and one 16mm color film.
The film depicting Topaz concentration camp is on the National Film Registry, the only such home movie originating from an American ethnic community. The Tatsuno home movie collection documents activities in Topaz concentration camp and pre-WWII festivals, sporting events, family outings, holidays, celebrations, and the family business - the Nichi Bei Bussan.
#1: Topaz footage (29:56).
#2: 1) One Sunday at the Golden Gate Park, August 23, 1936. Characters: Dad, Chiye, Wilbur, Tut and Dave; 2) The Bay Bridge; the U.C. campus, August 28, 1936. Characters: S. Kawasaki, Bob Takeda, Dave; 3) Santa Cruz, M.E. Church outing: Fleischacker Pool; and home. September 1936; 4) The Bay Bridge Fiesta Parade, November 13, 1936 (taken by Tut) (13:38).
#3: 1a) picnic: Palo Alto, Alameda and San Mateo; b) St. Mary's vs. U.C. 10-0; (following is lined out) c) N.C. YPCC 1936; d) Santa Clara vs. U.S.F.; 2) Football: U.C. vs. U.C.L.A. 6-17, October 17, 1936; 3) "The Big Game" 20-0, and over Bay Bridge (Kodachrome Color Film) November 21, 1936; 4) New Years Dinner and our store (Kodachrome Color Film), January 1, 1937 (14:12).
#4: Y.P.C.C. 1936-1937 (Young People’s Christian Conference), Spring of 1937, NCYPCC Chairman's Pow-wow, Mt. Hamilton-San Jose, Golden Gate Bridge, Dad and King Tsuchiya; at Christ Church. Personalities: Joe Omachi, Harry Fujita, Art Morimitsu, Michiyo Teramoto, Chi, Dad, Henry Tani, Sada Onoye, Santa Clara YPCC, Fresno YPCC, YPUC and Bay Region YPCC, N.C. Intercollegiate Advance, Yoshifuji's, Pescadero, Tennis: Yamaguchi-Don Budge, Picnic: Oakland Hills, Sunny Boy (15:18).
#5: 1) New Year's dinner at home; 2) Picnic in Sequoia Hill (Oakland) – Spring; 3) Yosemite - family and Mr. and Mrs. Tsuchiya – June; 4) Yosemite - July Wilbur-Henry-Roy-Tom; 5) Christmas - Home Sumi Teramoto-Alice (10:16).
#6: 1) YMCA Olympics – May; 2) Golden Gate Bridge; 3) San Anselmo Retreat – June; 4) Outing: Monterey - July 4th; 5) Outing: Russian River – July; 6) Outing: Calistoga – Aug; 7) NCYPCC Cabinet Meeting - Oct at Oakland M.E; 8) Northern Calif. Young Peoples' Christian Conference; 9) Loomis: Dave Takagishi's wedding (16:02).
#7: Alice at Loomis, Barton Sasaki, etc.; Dave Takeuchi wedding; 1940 JACL Nat. Convention; Yosemite, Matsuko, boat (10:57).
#8: Topaz footage (8:04).
Credits: Dave Tatsuno Collection, Gift of Dave Tatsuno, in Memory of Walter Honderick, Japanese American National Museum (91.74). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Slides in this album |
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Pearl Harbor and incarceration (Tatsuno_001) |
Topaz co-operative (Tatsuno_002) |
Buildings and people at Topaz (Tatsuno_003) |
Henry Tani family at Topaz (Tatsuno_004) |
Sunday school assembly; groups at Topaz (Tatsuno_005) |
Individuals and groups at Topaz (Tatsuno_006) |
Work crew digging trenches (Tatsuno_007) |
Alice Tatsuno with Topaz administrators and staff (Tatsuno_008) |
Laborers and family groups at Topaz (Tatsuno_009) |
Buildings and landscapes at Topaz (Tatsuno_010) |
A group at Topaz; driving through Delta (Tatsuno_011) |
Buildings and monuments in Salt Lake City (Tatsuno_012) |
Mess hall staff, Thanksgiving 1943 (Tatsuno_013) |
Celebrating New Year's by making mochi (Tatsuno_014) |
Alice Tatsuno and others at Topaz (Tatsuno_015) |
Winter at Topaz (Tatsuno_016) |
Winter at Topaz (Tatsuno_017) |
Buildings at Topaz (Tatsuno_018) |
Raising livestock at Topaz (Tatsuno_019) |
Group assembled by school bus (Tatsuno_020) |
Topaz in winter (Tatsuno_021) |
Carp kites flying over barracks (Tatsuno_022) |
Tut Tatsuno visits from University of Utah (Tatsuno_023) |
Dust storm at Topaz (Tatsuno_024) |
Laundry; a family with small children (Tatsuno_025) |
Youth groups at Topaz (Tatsuno_026) |
Relocation from Topaz (Tatsuno_027) |
The Tatsunos with Topaz administrator Roscoe Bell (Tatsuno_028) |
Tut Tatsuno visits his family at Topaz (Tatsuno_029) |
From Topaz to Delta and Salt Lake City (Tatsuno_030) |
From Salt Lake City to San Francisco by train (Tatsuno_031) |
Tatsuno family returns to San Francisco home (Tatsuno_032) |
Tatsuno family's return to Topaz in 1955 (Tatsuno_033) |
Winter recreation at Topaz (Tatsuno_034) |
Tatsuno family birthdays at Topaz (Tatsuno_035) |
Documenting the birth date of Arlene Tatsuno (Tatsuno_036) |
Leaving Topaz hospital with new infant daughter (Tatsuno_037) |
The infant Arlene Tatsuno (Tatsuno_038) |
Rodney Tatsuno bathing in basin (Tatsuno_039) |
Tatsuno family outing to Golden Gate Park (Tatsuno_040) |
Crossing San Francisco Bay by ferry (Tatsuno_041) |
University of California, Berkeley (Tatsuno_042) |
Santa Cruz church outing (Tatsuno_043) |
Chiye Tatsuno and friends (Tatsuno_044) |
Cats and kittens at 1625 Buchanan St. (Tatsuno_045) |
Family outing to Fleischhacker Pool (Tatsuno_046) |
Bay Bridge Fiesta Parade (Tatsuno_047) |
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Tatsuno_048) |
Picnic with ball games (Tatsuno_049) |
Football game, Cal vs. St. Mary's (Tatsuno_050) |
Football game, Santa Clara vs. USF (Tatsuno_051) |
Football game, Cal vs. UCLA (Tatsuno_052) |
Crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Tatsuno_053) |
Football game, Stanford vs. Cal (Tatsuno_054) |
New Year's Dinner, San Francisco (Tatsuno_055) |
Tatsuno store, Nichibei Bussan, at New Year's (Tatsuno_056) |
YPCC meeting in Berkeley (Tatsuno_057) |
Northern California YPCC Chairman's Pow-wow (Tatsuno_058) |
YPCC outing and picnic (Tatsuno_059) |
YPCC meeting (Tatsuno_060) |
YPCC outing and group photograph (Tatsuno_061) |
YPCC meeting (Tatsuno_062) |
YPCC meeting in San Francisco (Tatsuno_063) |
YPCC meeting (Tatsuno_064) |
Large group assembled for photograph (Tatsuno_065) |
Track meet at Kezar Stadium (Tatsuno_066) |
Group recreation (Tatsuno_067) |
Steamship Chichibu Maru at San Francisco (Tatsuno_068) |
Two men outside a store; a group photograph (Tatsuno_069) |
YPCC meeting (Tatsuno_070) |
YPCC meeting (Tatsuno_071) |
Yosemite and Merced (Tatsuno_072) |
Tatsuno family Christmas (Tatsuno_073) |
Alice Tatsuno with family at Christmas (Tatsuno_074) |
Dave and Alice Tatsuno with their dog (Tatsuno_075) |
Tatsunos at home (Tatsuno_076) |
New Year's at 1625 Buchanan St. (Tatsuno_077) |
Tatsunos play with dog in park (Tatsuno_078) |
Christmas decorations at Lakeview (Tatsuno_079) |
Opening of the Transbay Terminal (Tatsuno_080) |
Dave and Alice Tatsuno with their dog (Tatsuno_081) |
New Ford coupe on Buchanan St. (Tatsuno_082) |
Steamship Kamakura Maru leaving San Francisco (Tatsuno_083) |
Tatsuno family outing to snow-covered forest (Tatsuno_084) |
Golden Gate Bridge (Tatsuno_085) |
Jiro Yamagishi and Don Budge tennis match (Tatsuno_087) |
Tatsuno family outing to the Oakland hills (Tatsuno_088) |
Tatsuno family outing to the Golden Gate Bridge (Tatsuno_089) |
Tatsuno family outing to Carmel (Tatsuno_090) |
Tatsuno family outing to the Russian River (Tatsuno_091) |
Young men on the fishing boat Rio del Mar (Tatsuno_092) |
Tatsuno family outing to Calistoga (Tatsuno_093) |
A construction site (Tatsuno_094) |
New Year's Dinner, San Francisco (Tatsuno_095) |
Tatsuno, Okada and Tsuchiya families at Yosemite (Tatsuno_096) |
Tatsuno, Okada and Tsuchiya families at Yosemite (Tatsuno_097) |
Tatsuno family outing in San Francisco (Tatsuno_098) |
Alice Tatsuno walking with friends (Tatsuno_099) |
The bride and groom and their wedding guests (Tatsuno_100) |
Outside the Okada home (Tatsuno_101) |
Rural roads and traffic in California (Tatsuno_102) |
Dave and Alice Tatsuno with friends in Yosemite (Tatsuno_103) |
Dave and Alice Tatsuno with friends in Yosemite (Tatsuno_104) |
Two men outside 1625 Buchanan St., San Francisco (Tatsuno_105) |
Two men in a park, San Francisco (Tatsuno_106) |
Steamship Kamakura Maru leaving San Francisco (Tatsuno_108) |
Delegates to the JACL Convention, Portland 1940 (Tatsuno_109) |
1625 Buchanan St., San Francisco (Tatsuno_111) |
Henry Tani and other Tatsuno friends (Tatsuno_111) |
Sidewalk conversation, 1940 (Tatsuno_112) |