http://www.discovernikkei.org/nikkeialbum/en/node/1385 Comments for "S. Ban Company Baseball Team, Portland, Oregon" en http://www.discovernikkei.org/nikkeialbum/en/node/1385 <div class="album_item_teaser"> <div class="box_outer_wrapper"><div class="box_inner_wrapper"> <div class="box_outer_header"><div class="box_inner_header">&nbsp;</div></div> <a href="/nikkeialbum/en/node/1385" ><img src="http://www.discovernikkei.org/dj/nikkeialbum/files/filemanager/public/active/9/baseballSBan_sm.jpg" /></a></div></div> <p> <p>S. Ban company sponsored baseball team, courtesy of Lilly Kobayashi.</p> <p>Teikoku Company, Furuya, Otagiri, Ota Tofu, S. Ban, and M. Hachiya Co. were just a few of the successful food and mercantile stores in Portland’s Japantown (Nihonmachi). The S. Ban store was located on NW 3rd and Couch, operating from 1892 until 1924, selling goods to thousands of railroad and farm laborers.</p> <p>For more information, please contact the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center at 503-224-1458, <a href="http://www.oregonnikkei.org">www.oregonnikkei.org</a>, or email onlc@oregonnikkei.org.</p> <p>No photographs may be reproduced without written permission.</p> </p> <p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/deed.en"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/2.5/80x15.png"/></a> </p> </div> http://www.discovernikkei.org/nikkeialbum/en/node/1385#comment Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:50:43 -0800 Oregon Nikkei 1385 at http://www.discovernikkei.org/nikkeialbum