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Item type: image Tags: japantowns retail business portland teikoku company portland, oregon 1940s Part of these collections: Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown Uploaded by: Oregon Nikkei All rights reserved |
Photo of Teikoku Company store evacuation sale, taken late 1941 or early 1942, courtesy of the Matsushima Family.
Teikoku store was located in the Merchant Hotel building at NW 3rd and Davis in Japantown, Portland, Oregon, providing fresh food, dry goods, steamer tickets, and many other necessities of daily life for Portland’s Issei and their families.
Founded in 1905, the store reopened after World War Two as Anzen. Open daily in northeast Portland, Hiroshi's Anzen celebrated their 100 year anniversary in 2005.
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