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After 1942 the segregation of schools had disappeared in Isleton and after the war Japanese children were allowed to attend the white schools. From left to right: 1st Row: __________, Dennis Katsuki, Randy Arroyo, Carl Ogata, Phillip Plumlee, Harold…

The National Cannery was owned by Chinese businessmen and investors and was a main source of jobs for the local community. It was located on the corner of Main and H Street.

The Japanese and Chinese communities of Isleton were confined to Main Street west of F Street. The famous Bing Kong Tong building is the 2nd from the left. Many of the buildings along main street consisted of gambling halls that were frequented not…

Josi Okamoto and her son outside the Delta Garage on Main Street sometime before the internment of Japanese Americans, The Garage which was also called Truman's was located right next to the National Cannery.

On Memorial Day 1926 a fire broke out in Isleton's Chinatown in a building next to the Chinese Language School on Main Street when a Chinese woman was using a kerosene stove to warm up some milk. The milk had boiled over and in trying to save it the…

The Memorial Day Fire destroyed over 110 Chinese and Japanese homes and businesses leaving over 1,500 people homeless and causing over 750,000 dollars in damages. Fortunately no one died from the fire but a few people did suffer from severe…

Laborers working in the National Cannery to package up canned Asparagus in 1928.

A look at Isleton's main street after the reconstruction of it from the Memorial Day Fire. The new Fire House is on the far left with a hardware store next door. One can make out the Bing Kong Tong Building at the very end that was built soon after…

A look at the Main Street of Isleton's China and Japantowns after the rebuilding from the Memorial Day Fire of 1926

Isleton's Japantown rebuilt after the 1926 Fire with S. Sumii's General Store and a restaurant next door.