The Friant-Kern Canal was constructed along the east side if the San Joaquin Valley. Here, equipment digs the canal through part of the Marioka farm in 1945 or 1946.
Alice Suyeda (foreground left) and Nancy Morioka picking peas at Morioka Farm near Ivanhoe, California, 1950. In the background are Kinuyo Morioka (left) and Yoshikazu Morioka.