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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 17 of 17, “Back of Daruma Cafe menu”)
Collected by: lthistory
The back of the menu from the Daruma Cafe in the 1960s.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 16 of 17, “Another page from Daruma Cafe menu”)
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Another page from the interior of the Daruma Cafe menu in the 1960s.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 15 of 17, “Inside Daruma Cafe menu”)
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Inside page of menu from Daruma Cafe in the 1960s. Gohan (rice) for 20 cents - those were the days!

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 14 of 17, “Menu from Daruma Cafe”)
Collected by: lthistory
First page of the menu from the Daruma Cafe in its Montebello incarnation. This menu dates from sometime in the 1960s.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 13 of 17, “Sign for Daruma Cafe”)
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Sign for the Daruma Cafe, at 123 S. San Pedro Street in L.A.'s Little Tokyo. Mitsuo and Masako Kato ran this restaurant for several decades following World War II.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 12 of 17, “Mitsuo "Jack" and Masako Kato, 1960s”)
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Mitsuo "Jack" Kato and his wife Masako in front of their Little Tokyo restaurant, the Daruma Cafe, in the 1960s.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 11 of 17, “Kawafuku in the Postwar Decades”)
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Kawafuku in its post-WWII incarnation, probably in the early 1970s. As the sign said, Kawafuku continued to specialize in sukiyaki, although it had also expanded its menu to many sushi ...

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 10 of 17, “Nisei Week in the 1930s, Little Tokyo”)
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A float during a Nisei Week parade in the mid-1930s. One or more members of the Kato family might be riding on the float.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 9 of 17, “Meiji University Athletes' Reception, 1936”)
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A welcome reception for visiting Meiji University athletes at Kawafuku on August 16, 1936. The reception was hosted by the Southern California Judo Yudanshakai.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 8 of 17, “Mitsuo Kato in his kimono”)
Collected by: lthistory
A formal portrait of Mitsuo Kato in traditional Japanese clothing.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 7 of 17, “Images of Kawafuku in the 1920s”)
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Images of Kawafuku on a postcard from the 1920s. Kawafuku was considered an upscale restaurant that specialized in sukiyaki before the war.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 6 of 17, “Mitsuo Kato on the street”)
Collected by: lthistory
Mitsuo checks out the traffic in Little Tokyo in the 1930s.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 5 of 17, “Takichi and Mitsuo Kato”)
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Takichi Kato stands to the left while an unidentified man carries little Mitsuo. This picture appears to have been taken in Little Tokyo, perhaps outside of Kawafuku.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 4 of 17, “Mitsuo "Jack" Kato”)
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Mitsuo, the son of Takichi and Hana Kato. When he was older, Mitsuo went by the name "Jack." He opened his own restaurant in Little Tokyo, the Daruma Cafe.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 3 of 17, “Takichi Kato with sailors”)
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Takichi Kato and two members of the Japanese Imperial Navy, during the 1920s or 1930s. This photo was probably taken in the vicinity of the harbor at San Pedro, California.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 2 of 17, “The Kato Family, date unknown.”)
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The Katos with their three children, date unknown.

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Kawafuku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (Item 1 of 17, “Takichi and Hana Kato, 1937”)
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The Katos founded Kawafuku in 1923. According to their daughter-in-law Masako, Hana had previously been a chef at the Imperial Hotel in Little Tokyo.

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GRUPO SANSEI, Ciudad de México (Item 2 of 2)
Collected by: harumoon

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5 移民を授業する － 日系アメリカ人の記憶から学ぶ: ヘンリー・S・ヤスダ さん (Item 14 of 15)
Collected by: team-nikkei-usa

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5 移民を授業する － 日系アメリカ人の記憶から学ぶ: ヘンリー・S・ヤスダ さん (Item 13 of 15)
Collected by: team-nikkei-usa
８０歳のヘンリーさんの誕生日を祝い、ヤスダ一家が集まりました。