The once busy life of Little Tokyo is contrasted by this scene of a quiet street corner at 1st and San Pedro streets on June 17, 1942, following the Japanese evacuation. In the foreground is the newly-named Civic Hotel, formerly the Miyako Hotel, once a "reputed center of Japanese intigue in Southern California."
Civic Hotel (Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Calif.) Hotels--California--Little Tokyo (Los Angeles) World War, 1939-1945 Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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