History tv toured little tokyo with bill shishima a docent at the Japanese American National museum. Mr. Shashima was born in a little tokyo in 1930 and spent three years at Heart Mountain Relocation Center during world war ii. Good morning. Well have a short leisure walking tour of little tokyo right here is our largest artifact. After world war ii. And our local businessmen wanted a place to tell ours japanese american story. What happened during world war ii . And coincidentally. Japanese veteran of world war ii also wanted a place to exhibit their story of world war ii. And this buddhist temple first built way back in 1925 was vacant and they got in contact with the city and were able to lease it out for 50 years for one dollar a year. So the little tokyo businessman and the veterans. Incorporated 1985 and they were able to open up the Japanese American National museum in 1992 in this old buddhist temple. This temple is a replica from a temple and kyoto japan, but the canopy is mad
Artifact. After world war ii. And our local businessmen wanted a place to tell ours japanese american story. What happened during world war ii . And coincidentally the japanese veteran of world war ii also wanted a place to exhibit their story of world war ii and this buddhist temple first built way back in 1925 was vacant and they got in contact with the city and were able to lease it out for 50 years for one dollar a year. So the little tokyo businessman and the veterans. Incorporated 1985 and they were able to open up the Japanese American National museum in 1992 in this old buddhist temple. This tempo is a replica from a temple and kyoto japan, but the canopy is made original ones made of wood here. Its made of concrete and the architect. Mcclellan was first time builder of a buddhist temple. He was a specialist in making public schools, so were not sure how and he had this northern wall thats not japanese. Thats middle easterners, but way back in 1925. Maybe thats when the king tu
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U. S. Army air corps did as they worked with the state to make this happen. They wanted to find a natural shape to rest the balloon and the gondola in. They were looking for a bowl area, not only to spread out the balloon on the ground, but also that natural bowl shape protects the gondola for the first couple of thousand feet as it goes up. They scoured all of north america for a place. They had a couple of different decisions that they could have made, places they could have chosen. And essentially they chose rapid city because of how kind the people were, because of how welcoming we are. The perfect shape of the bowl was nice, too, but it did come down to the people of the area. That was the reasoning behind choosing it. The first attempt happened in 1934. There were three men on the first flight. It was captain Orval Anderson, major william kepner, and captain albert stevens. What happened was they got into the gondola and they went up and they hit about 60,000 feet. And they think