Main Street Misawa

Pedestrians are out shopping on the main drag after the big snowstorm had passed in early January 1967.

 

Just visible on a utility pole beyond the vehicles on the right, a sign advertises a movie playing at the 第ニ中央 - Dai Ni Chuo, 2nd Center, which most Americans on base called the "Second Show," and was the theater where I saw at least one of Clint Eastwood's "Spaghetti Westerns" while enjoying a "combat jug."

 

At some point, covered sidewalks were built on both sides of Misawa's main drag, and it became known to the Americans from base as "White Pole Road."

 

Now much of "Main St." near Chuo-Cho has been widened and given sidewalks. Many if not most of the buildings seen here have been torn down, and the white poles too are gone from this part of town, although it appears some remain further down near the train station. The old Heiwa pachinko parlor at the corner of Main and 1st St., to my immediate left in this photo and kitty corner from the old Snack Bar, has been torn down and replaced with a four-story "Bld. Aim" housing the La La La Karaoke.

 

 

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Any mistakes in the Japanese translations are my own.

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