A Rememberance to the Japanese American farmers at the Pike Place Market

"Public Art in the Pike Place Market" Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington USA
Commissioned Artist Aki Sogabe

 Mary Furuta,
former Pike Place Market farmer
photo by Alice Richardson

photo & article by
A. Kusunose
Editor Hokubei Hochi vol54(no.21)

Hon. Martha Choe - Seattle City Councilmember
Chair Finance and Budget Committee
photo courtesty of Sharon Sobie Seymour

Commissioned Artist-Aki Sogabe
photo & article by A. Kusunose Editor Hokubei Hochi vol54(no.21)

Janice Yee Pres 1998-9 Seattle Chapter Japanese American
Citizens League, Co-Chair of  Project.
photo & article by A. Kusunose Editor Hokubei Hochi vol54(no.21)

Jeffrey Hattori Pres 1997-8 Seattle JACL
photo by Alice Richardson

L-R Robert Shinbo, John Turnbull,
Jill Beppu, Aki Sogabe, Paul Dunn.  
photo by Alice Richardson

Chizu Norton, part of
the audience for the dedication .
photo by Alice Richardson

Lynne Jones(Person to the extreme left),
 Dr. Edward Jones is just to her left(not visible).
photo by Jill Beppu

Seattle Kokon Taiko
photo by Jill Beppu

Don Maekawa ,Lake Washington JACL, treasurer
and Sharon Sobie Seymour Seattle JACL Pres.
Elect. 2000-1,  in the far background.
photo courtesy of Sharon Sobie Seymour

Photographers Alice Richardson, John Pai,
and Irene Kuniyuki (in the crowd somewhere).
photo by Jill Beppu

*Executive Order No. 9066 ".....I hereby authorize
and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military
commanders.....to prescribe military areas in such
places and of such extent as he or the appropriate
Military Commander may determine, from which any
or all persons may be excluded....."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 19, 1942

Text on the first panel:"In 1941, approximately two-thirds of the cPanel Onefarmers' stalls in the PikevPlace Market were occupied by
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Market were occupied by Japanese Americans.
Today none"

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"The United States Executive Order 9066* forever changed the Pike Place Market and the lives and
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