Couple in Japantown, San Francisco

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I continue to enjoy finding old photos of San Francisco, where I live. This photo was taken about a ten minute walk from my apartment, and I can’t help wondering if these people lived nearby, and what their lives were like then. This is a photo measuring a bit less than 4×6 inches, glued into a cardboard folder. The photographer was Saburo Moriyama. What little information I’ve found about him so far indicates he was born in Japan in 1877, came to the US in 1901, and opened his photo studio “in the 1910s”. The studio was located at 1797 Sutter Street, an address that doesn’t seem to exist now, though it would have been at the intersection of Sutter and Buchanan, which is right smack in the middle of Japantown (both pre-war and today).