Stockton’s Japantown, Chinatown, & Little Manila Japanese American Businesses of 1940

(1917 & 1951 maps) E. CHANNEL ST. 138 202 126 128 YMCA BUILDING 248 102 110 120 124 134 136 142 148 216 218 222 224 228 142 2 4B 139 148 147 1 2 Gymnasium Office & Produce 1st Independent 140 Saloon Auto Readin Room 146 Newspaper 137 Repair & Pool Room 2 132 2nd Hand Store Shop 1st Floor Welding

(1917) Repairing 1 AUDITORIUM 1st & 2nd 2B Auto Radiator Machine Shop 1 MASONIC TEMPLE 4th 131 130 Store Horse Shoeing Rooms Bowling & California Transportation Company 1 1 Shed Handball 1 2 131 1 Post-1917 buildings 1 4B Ticket Office 130 128 Store Storage Freight Shed & Baggage Printing 2nd 1

Factory (if any) are 129

127 Sausage Incline Lime Produce 1st 1 Police Station 1st not yet added 2 124.5 1 Painting 1 River steamers to San Francisco 101 111 117 119 121 123 125 127 131 135 137 A 147 124 Drive 127.5 1 Block 42 122 Store BRIDGE ST. 2 3 Saloon

Vacant 119 Warehouse Store Block 41 120 Store Sausage Factory Storage 102 106 112 124 132 Mission 118 117 115 Stockton Channel 119 2-3 3 1 116 Store 3

Saloon & 115 113 114 Restaurant 112 Factory Tamale Store 110 113 109 T URNER H ALL 2

3 Pool Room CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TRACTION The Stockton Hotel 108 Rest. CO’S. FREIGHT HOUSE Concrete Bulkhead 1 Office 2 102 Drugs Drugs Store Store Store Saloon Saloon Saloon Entrance Lunch Restaurant

102 Store Store Store Store CALIFORNIA NAVIGATION & IMPROVEMENT CO. Office Motorboat 101 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 Warehouse 101 145 W. Weber Island Transportation Company 101 103 105 107 109 111 115 203 205 207 211 213 215 219 225 227 229 231 241 243 247 111.5 201 Shasta Fertilizer 233 233.5 235 Freight Sheds 239

E. WEBER LEVEE Weber St. was Stockton’s “color line” E. WEBER ST.

14 16 16.5 148 144 124 102 108 102 48 44 38 36 34 32 30 28 24 24 20 18 14 12 10 6/8 4 2 12 12.5 14 18 20 24 26 30 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 104 106 108 110 112 114 118 120 124 126 130 132 1 1 48 45 47 47 47 48 SPERRY FLOUR 45 Offices 45 CO. GENERAL Office 45 43 FFICES O Canned Fruit Warehouse Offices

Lumber 14' 41 42 [by 1951] 41 43 44 41 39 39 41 40 42 39

Lumber 14' 40 Lumber 8' Lumber 8' 37 38 Warehouse 37 Storage Wilson 36 37 34 38 35 36 Adams Florist

37 Bait Store Weber

Autos Hotel 33 35

Auto 36 34 34 35 provisions Fujita Co. 33 What Cheer House SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 35 N? 36 33 32 33 COURTHOUSE

34

32 Lumber Lumber 31 32 31 29 Macaroni Factory (1917) 31 29 30 34 Clock Tower 28.5 Sheet Metal Works (1951) 1 1 Ishihara 5-6 Saeki Boarding 27 32 25 27 26 25 Rooming 23.5 28 Block 2 (1917) Musto Co. Peter Saeki Cafe 25 30 23 Dome 1 8 Lumber Lumber Tokyo Rooming 28 26 23 23 21

21 24

24 Lumber Shed Brass Foundry (1917) Block 9 22 24 Oji ERestaurant 24 Block 14 19 Auto Body Works (1951)

22 21.5 19 22 22.5 Block 8 20 17 Block 17 21 22 17 N. MADISON N. 15 1 18 15 16 19 20 15 13 SIMPSON - GRAY LUMBER CO. INC. 13 ST SAN JOAQUIN N. Ito Co. provisions 16 18 San Joaquin Valley HUNTER N. Lumber Lumber 14 11 11 14 COMMERCE N. 1 9.5 National Bank

12 15 14 14 1 Tokyo Bazaar

Wagon Shed 12 12 Lumber 8' 9 Building 9 Takehiro Rooming 13 CENTER ST N. 10 10 8 Store 7 SPERRY FLOUR CO. 7 6 Sack Sorting Storage 5 5 Lumber 8' 5 6 Stables Stables

4 Sunset & Storage of old 4 Lumber Co. Simpson-Gray machinery Lumber 8' Garage Saloon 3 4 Sperry Flour Co. Hotel 3 2 2 1 1

Ito Rest. 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 147 139 131 125 101 45 33 31 25 23 17 1 1 5 7 9 13 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 37 41 43 47 101 103 105 107 109 111 113 117 121 125 127 131 25 17 19 15 115 119 123 NORTH W. MAIN Golden West W. MAIN WEST EAST E. MAIN E. MAIN 236-242 148 212 128 126 124 122 120 118 Hotel (1917) 34 30 22 2 202 210 214 216 218 222 226 230 232 234 244 248 2 4 6 8 10 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 32 34 36 38 40 44 46 48 102 106 108 110 112-14 116-18 120 124 140 SOUTH

1 2 2 2 2 10 mezz 134' 1 Hotel Central Occidental 2 (1917) Hotel Bank

Lafayette (1917) 5 Lincoln 7 10 Hotel 7 Hotel Ohio Rest. Hollywood I. O. O. F. Frank’s Cafe 9 12 ODD FELLOW’S 9 12 11 to Fox Theater Valley HALL Inot drawn yet] (1917) 12 Hotel [1930s entrance 12 1 11 14 11 Creamery St James Hotel Handball Court 11.5 14 11 13

14 Old Theater Entrance (1917) 13.5 15 14 16 Dining Room 15 16 15 Foyer 16 T. K. Restaurant 17 Mikado Hotel 18 Today’s Steamboat Landing 22 Imperial Theater Block 11 19 18 20 17 Dr. K. Akimoto 19 Apartment Complex TURNER & DAHNKEN 21 21 20 22 Auto Freight Depot 18 Dr. M. Ishizu dentist Block 15 THEATER Los Angeles25 23 Block 18 23 (1951) Block 10 23 23 22.5 built 1917 Hotel [later became 26 26 Engine Co. No. 2 FOX THEATER] 32 27 Kawamoto Kabutsuten Confectioner 25 144 No. 2 Mikado Hotel 27 26 27 29 Japanese Hospital Agricultural Implements FIRE DEPARTMENT Storage N. MADISON N. 28 Auditorium Block 4 29 31 EADQUARTERS S. COMMERCE S. 32 28 H (1919-1941) 31 (1917) Lincoln Theater 32 35 S? 27 Taira Mizukashiten Nobby Hotel Truck No. 1 31 34 29 34 31 30 Arakawa Kabutsuten Confectioner 33 32 31.5 Furukawa Hotel New Star Restaurant HUNTER S. 34 35 36 40 33 35 44

33 S. SAN JOAQUIN ST SAN JOAQUIN S.

possibly in new bldg. 37.5 S. EL DORADO S. 38 Wilson Hotel CENTER ST S. 35 37 17 43 42 Kunii Tokei Ten 39 Fujimori Co Yosemite PUBLIC LIBRARY 46 Stage & Scenery 42 40 stationery/watches Dry Goods/ Art Goods Hotel 41 Diamond Panama 45 43 42 Fukui Photo Studio Owl Hotel Hotel 43 Hotel 47 45 44 2 San Joaquin Nagayama Sansei Do books/stationery 45 46 47 Saloon New Franklin Hotel 47

Ted Cash Grocery Ted Sakai Co. provisions Sakai Co. 49 2 48

Kawamata Barber & Bath House Hotel 3 Oshitari Shoe Repair 48 Cleaning Yokoyama 48 Nippon Drug 47 146 125 119 117 115 111 101 45 39 31 25 23 201 215 237 239 19 15 13 11 1 1 3 5 5.5 7 9 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 29 33 37 101 105 107 111 115 119 121 123 125 129 131 135 139 141 143 147 33 29 11 11 13 109 129 131 135 137 139 W. MARKET ST W. MARKET ST E. MARKET ST E. MARKET ST Takei Gankyoin physician 26E 8 28 114 116 124 126 2 118 120 124 146 138 136 134 130 122 122 108 46 38 28 22 12 10 8 2 4 10 12 14 16 20 22 24 26 30 36 38 40 42 44 48 Dr. K. Onizuka dentist 126 128 130 134 138 148 202 220 101 102 101 100 1 Dr. I. Gotanda 101 102 Hotel 103 102 Market Hotel 103 JA Citizen’s League MARKET ST. Costa 104 GARAGE 105 Stockton Japanese Ass’n 30 cars Wholesale Grocery 107 (1917) 105 106 Stockton Heimusha-Kai Store or Warehouse 108 Angels Hotel dentist

107 111 109 World War Veterans 107 110 112 U.S. Hotel U.S. (1951) Star Theater Hi-Low Market 109 Boy Scouts 112 Miyata Co. 112 111 113 113 114 113 114 114 116 Dry Goods/ Shoes Mkt Produce Wakimoto 115 115 Market Restaurant 216 116 116 123 Methodist Episcopal 113

Sushi Kogyo Kaisha

Umino Mizukashiten

Bowling Office 119 Stockton 117 Drive Kenji Oshidari Dr. Chinese Mission 120 Savoy 117 120 (1917) Hotel Liguria 119 Hunter St. Livery 125 119 121 122 Box Co. Center Taft Hotel Dance Hall 119 Block 19 (1917) 123 119.5 Store Block 16 (1917) 121 warehouse Rooming [1917] 122 118 121 Block 12 124 Tenshin Do (Suzuki) Store 127

125 123 (1917) 123 124 120 books/stationery 125 Block 180 129

128 124 2 Block 13 126 Nishioka Sanin 128 129 Dr. H.Kanagawa 130 127 126.5 Shiga Rooming Chinese Dwellings 129.5 ST. MARY’S (maternity hospital 131 131 130 126 Moriwaki Hotel 129 (1917-1951) Clergy or midwife) 133 132 24.5 131 SCHOOL ST. MARY’S

130

128 2 133 ROMAN CATHOLIC 2nd 135 134 3 2 136 Center Drug Store 135 CHURCH 135.5 134 138 Yamagishi 136 136 1 137 137 138 Cleaning

Tokunaga Shoten & Kabutsuten 140 Gas Station 137 140 139 (1951) Iroha Rest.

144? Pacific 142 142 143 A Clergy Hotel 143 (1951)

144 Hotel

148 Rooming [1917] 145 [1917]

1 146 Roosevelt Matsushima Joss House 147 148 147 148

Yoshioka Sewing School Yoshioka Fujimori Grocery Delta Cleaning 1 Sun Rise Hotel 147 New World Sun New World Newspaper or printing Chinese Gambling

148 Aichikenjin Kai 25 1 1 7 9 11 13 15 101 19 21 23 25 29 31 33 23 25 27 101 103 105 109 111 121 123 125 127 131 147 113 115 117 119

105 107 115.5

W. WASHINGTON ST W. WASHINGTON ST E. WASHINGTON ST Chinese [1917] E. WASHINGTON ST

W?

228 232

248 128 148 148 146 144 26 126 126 130 132 134 136 138 140 142 144 146 148 132 114 114 112 110 102 100 48 46 44 42 40 36 16 118 120 124 28 2 12 14

20 22 24 26 30 30 34 36 36.5 38 40 42 44

Sun Rise Soda Co.

chiropractor Dr. H.Kanagawa

Nakashima Iin provisions Murano Co. 48 102 201 Kashukan 201 202 202 Europa Hotel Dr. H.Kanagawa 201 200 Jitsugyo 200 Buddhist Hotel & built by 1951] 2 201 A. B. (1951) Off-ramp Kai Restaurant 2nd Buddhist Church Auto Hire Nakashima Iin Market Sushi Nihongo (1940) chiropractor floor (1917)

K. Ueno midwife K. Church Uyeno Misukashiten 209 Gakko school 210 offices site of Japanese Matsui Shoe Repair 213 2 209 Hospital in 1917 212 (pre-1940 WBA, YMBA, YWBA Fukumoto Cleaner 215 213

Stockton Times 213 Insatsusho Times

216 Restaurant Top 221 214 214 church) 217 215 Tsukimi Tei Rest. Tsukimi Tei

[gone by 1951] Today’s Hwy 4 Nakamura EL DORADO S. Today’s Hwy 4 220 San Joaquin Livery Fish Co. Washington 229 Tokei Ten 217 223 wash 222 218 Osakaya Confectioneries Osakaya 220- rack & Feed (1917) 219 Kambara Shoe Store 219 WASHINGTON [gone by 1951] Garage (1951) 222 Chinese lodgings 224 Fukami Sign 221 224 Block classroom Yachiku Te Rest. above (1917) 223 225 223 Kintai-do Bookstore 225 202 Block 205 227 226 Takemori Co. books/stationery Dr. K. Uchida 225

228 Private stable (1917) 226- & storage 226 232 First African Methodist Colombo Hotel Bowling (1917) Nakajima Co. Dry Goods 228 Aisaku1 Omachi attorney 229 Queen Sewing School 227 SQUARE Garage (1951) Episcopal Church (1917) 231 230 (1917) Block 204 Nakajima Hotel 230 & Hiroshima Kenjinkai Kasui Deguchi midwife 232 232 231 229 HUNTER S.

Inouye Cleaning 232 Site of Agricultural Exposition Hall Favorite Laundry S. CENTER S.

S. MADISON S. Tsuruya Confectionery1 234 Yamashita Cleaning in the 19th century (later burned) S. COMMERCE S. 231 235 236 Franklin built 1966 238 Block 203 built 1966 Hayashi Tokei Ten Yamashita Saiho1 233 Public 237 Hotel Fukuokaya 236

239 ST SAN JOAQUIN S. Gakko school 237 School 240 237 O.K. Rest. 239 239 240

[gone by 1951] [gone by 244 Nankaiya 241 243 239 State 243 247 246 Rooms 246 Toyo Co. Garage 245

Christian Kintai Drug245 Church 245

Fujii Co. dry goods/ art goods Fujii Co. Ouchida Co. Provisions Ouchida Co.

Ouchida Kabutsuten 111

Murano Co. Mariposa Hotel

137 119.5

147 139 135 127 119 145 Hotel Palace Yamaguchi Co. Yamaguchi 248 248 Seizo Shoten & Tofu No. 2

Sampuku Tei Rest. Sampuku Tei 2 Bocho Kaigai Kyokai provisions Ito Udon-Ya 45 33 27 109 121 129 29 On-ramp 1Grocery Center 19 25 27 29 31 37 101 107 111 137

113 127 115 117 119 123 125 135

Ogata Cleaning Fish Co. Togo Hotel [check for newer buildings]

WEST LAFAYETTE ST E. LAFAYETTE ST Beika Gakko, WCA, JCS LAFAYETTE ST 126 100 Hotel Garibaldi [check for Kuristokyo Gakko [Christian Church school] 148 144 138 132 24 newer bldg.]

48 30 26 24 20 18 16 6 2 2 (1917) 12 Otsuka Sanin [midwife?] 14 16 18 20 22 26 Hotel D’italia (1917) 124 126 130 132 138 140 148 301 44 48 50 52 116 118 301 40' 303 Tsudama Co. provisions 300 Satsumaya Hotel 302 1 1 Grand State Garage 1 303 Store Store Confucius 1 Hotel Español Salvation Hotel2 Office No. 1 305 Church 305 (1917) Army Hall 308 309 Yamaguchi Taxi307 (1951) 311 310 Minato Tei (1917) White Hotel 307 Hall [1951] [1917] Yebisuya Rest. Restaurant Dwelling

314 Market Rest.

Hiroshimaya 312 309 310 Hotel 1 Co-ed Saiho 1 1 Yamato Hotel Yamato K.O. Fish Co. Shibata Toy Shop Gakko school 314 311 315 316 Honda Bait Store 316 Kusama Cleaning 313 & Mizukashiten 1

California Laundry

315 Restaurant Yamato 316 S. Shibata Carpenter Otsuka Carpenter M. Chinese

318 Hand Ball 317 320 garage building (1951) 315 Higoya Hotel Hotel España Kintai Ryokan Hotel Christian Store Court (1917) 325 (1951)

It’s not clear from 320 (1917) 320 321 319 Higoya transfer/taxi Center 321 Star Hotel Sanborn maps (1951) 322 Hotel Genova [1917] Genova Hotel Tank Block 212 whether additional Block 210 323 323 Block 213 325 buildings existed 1 8' Lumber Storage Gilmore Bros. Planing Mill 319 330 1 332 Kimura Kabutsuten 327 1917-1951 (1917) 329 327 325 Stockton Lumber Company Kishukan Hotel 331 (1917) 1.5 333 331 335 344 Nakajima Co. Shoten Total Average: 3 Million Feet 335 Hand Ball 8' Lumber Storage 337 337 337 2 Bakery 335 339 Court (1917) 1 Tenrikyo 2 3 341 (1917) Hotel Royal (1917) 343 1 1 346 San Joaquin

Tenri Kyokai [Church] (1917) Feed Yard Feed El Dorado 341 Building Materila, Sash and Door 343 8' Lumber Storage 347 Kyokai Trinity Presbyterian 345 348 Warehouse 1 1 345347 Home Korean 2 E Temple Church (1951) 348 347

Fuji Insatsusho 147 101 (news/ printing) 47 45 43 25 19 17 1 1 7 9 9.5 11 15 19 33 35 35A 37 41 101 105 111-117 119 123 125 127 131 147 241 247 37 [verify [verify WEST SONORA ST E. or W. Winery E. or W. 102 Sonora] Sonora] (1917) 110 48 44 38 30 24 18 12 2 2 12 22 28 36 38 40 42 100 128 138 148 401 401

1 Nishimoto Gas & Auto Sushi Shotai Salvation Salvation Army 1.5 Building Use/ Occupancy: Transfer Service Hotel [1951] Lombard Building Symbols: Nippon 401 Dwellings (single residences)

407 Office & 1 (1917) Drive Hotel Wine Storage Building 1 410 Flats and Apartments 407 W. J. Linn Gas/ Auto 412 Porch or overhang, open structure, Garage 413 Hotels, Housekeeping Rooms, 414 Service also lumber piles 415 Boarding Houses, etc. 416 Elm Hotel [1951] 411 Partition within building 1 Churches & Synagogues Shavings 417 Drive 420 Feed & Sales (1917) Block Hokubei Koyasan Daishiji Community Facilities Barn, stable, or hayloft 237 419 422 (Schools, social, government, etc.)

Hokkubei Nihon Gakko school S. MADISON S. ROBERTS & CLARK MILL Blacksmith & Wagon Shop (1917) Woodworking and Auto Wrecking Property Line Cabinet Shop [1951] Japanese American Businesses [gone by 1951] Future Buildings (1917-1940 and 1951) Planing Mill 430 Block and Institutions of 1940 Drive (depends on which layers are turned on: see title) 427 236 NAMED BUSINESSES FROM 1917 replaced by SANBORN INSURANCE MAPS Gas Holding Tank Office 431 Stairs [by 1951] 1 S. HUNTER S. Generic businesses from 1917 S. COMMERCE S. S. EL DORADO S. Auto Repairing Sanborn Insurance maps

S. CENTER S. [1951] 2B Number of Stories San Joaquin Lumber Company’s 153 Street Address Drive City Lumber Shed Warehouse [Vacant 1917] Average Amount 1,000,000 Ft. Buildings are drawn from Sanborn

1-2 Gas & Auto Insurance Map Co. maps of 1917 and vacant by 1951 Service [Vacant 1917] [1951]

S TOCKTON L UMBER C OMPANY ’ HEDS 1951. Buildings may or may not be 448 Map ©2004 by Ben Pease 22' accurate for 1940. Named businesses 447 Vacant 447 from 1917 may not have still existed in Church St. 1940, and especially 1951. Pease Press Cartography 101 Hazelton St. 1717 Cabrillo St Scotts St. San Francisco, CA 94121 Talyor St. Japanese American businesses are from 4 blocks to AT&SF Depot Hokkubei Mainichi and Nichibei Times Phone: (415) 387-1437. 0 100 Feet business directories of 1940 Email: [email protected] (courtesy of Japanese American History Archives, San Francisco).