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In the early twentieth century, the Kurokawa family moved to San Luis Obispo, California. Japanese immigrants, they established themselves in the community, operating a downtown vegetable market for several decades. Years later, archaeologists uncovered a pit filled with detritus the family left behind. The presence of numerous Japanese tablewares and food and beverage containers demonstrate continued ties with their homeland and the perpetuation of traditional dietary practices. Intermixed with these were European American goods indicating the incremental integration of American consumer patterns of the time. These artifacts provides a rare opportunity for archaeological investigation of a Pre-War, urban Japanese American family.