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Visalia, CA, was named for Nathaniel Vise, a Kentucky native born in 1810 who later owned a restaurant in San Francisco that featured bear meat. He became know as "the bear hunter." In 1852, he filed on a quarter acre in what now is Visalia, near…

Joe Ely, of Exeter, CA, was a member of the Yokohl ("beautiful valley") subtribe of the Yokuts Indian tribe. He was born in 1869, and died at age 42 in 1911. The Yokohls' head village was located near the river channel north of Highway 69 on what…

Yosh Imoto was a life guard at Bass Lake in 1930

The Shinoda general store in Cutler, California, in the 1930s. The original store was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in 1919. The building, located at Road 128 and Railroad Drive, is currently occupied by La Esperanza Mexican Restaurant. The store…

Easter Sunday service at Palm Methodist Church in Dinuba, California.

Dinuba championship baseball team of the Central California Baseball League in the early 1920s.

Members of the Abe family pictured are (left to right): Mary Aloe Sakaguchi, Mollie Fukuko Abe Osato, Franklin Kazuichi Abe, Lily Aloe Nagata, and Alice Abe Kurihara.

Jennie Ying Joe. She later married Bob Wong.

Professional Japanese baseball players pictured in a Japanese sports magazine from the 1950s. One player pictured operated a one-man submarine during World War II.

Cover of a Japanese sports magazine showing baseball players of 1954.