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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm
There was a vibrant community of Japanese on Terminal Island, mostly engaged in fishing. Little Tokyo's Japanese-American heritage goes back at least 100 years, and Sawtelle's Japanese American community is almost that old. I went to University HS in the area in the 1970s, and only many years later did I learn that the student population in the war years was decimated by the forced internments of 1942 and after.
Judging from some passages in the novels of John Fante, it seems that there was also an Italian community on Terminal Island, but everyone mostly got along, just as they did in the Plaza area, with the Italians to the northwest and the Japanese to the southeast, and of course all the other ethnicities and cultures that converged there.
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In addition to the communities mentioned by TWS, there was a significant Japanese American community in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley before World War II.
Pasadena Jr College Triple J Club, 1935
Photo credit:
http://www.amerasiajournal.org/blog/?p=2471
The Pasadena Digital History Collaboration has an extensive collection on Japanese Americans in the San Gabriel Valley from Pasadena, El Monte, Monrovia, West Covina, Covina, La Puente.
Source:
http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...7coll6/id/8899
Edit: Acckk! I clearly haven't figured this out yet. My intention was to reply to ethereal_reality's original post about the killer missionary, and E_R's specific question at the conclusion:
"at a Mexican and Japanese settlement near Covina." What kind of settlement would have Japanese in 1938?