Note written across the bottom of the photograph reads "Comedy of Errors 1936". Note on the back of the photograph reads: "Comedy of Errors April 1937 Shakespeare's Birthday Scenic Artist Bill Payne Director E. E. Keppie". "Archives Pasadena City...
A precious daughter dies young of diptheria. Her mother and brother die at about the same time. As Shichitaro is working at Meiji Laundry, sons Hideo and Shigeo are practically raised by neighbors, James Kashima family. Kashima takes boys on...
Takayama beach trip. Center woman in hat and glasses and printed dress is Cho, ravaged by tuberculosis. She teaches her sons, Shig and Hideo, to cook and they both work as cooks while in college at UC Berkeley and USC.
Shichitaro is a member of Aichi Kenjinkai, a prefectural organization. The back of photo suggests this was a meeting to say farewell to Mr. Nakane who was returning to Japan.
Shigeo Takayama attended Lincoln Elementary School and Pasadena High School. He was the same age group as Jackie Robinson and walked to school together with him. He also played football at PJC with Jackie, sharing a room on away games. Shig...
As both of his sons went straight into the military, Shichitaro was alone in Pasadena in 1941. Because of his leadership position, the FBI had interest in him and he fled to Reedley, California. He was found out, picked up by the FBI and...
Sansei Joan Takayama-Ogawa was born in Pasadena and graduated from Muir, UCLA, and Stanford. While Dean at Santa Monica's Crossroads School, Joan took a ceramics class. She is now Associate Professor of ceramics at Otis College of Art and Design...
