Kajima Building and Sumitomo Bank

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View of the Kajima Building and the Sumitomo Bank at the corner of 2nd Street and San Pedro Street. All of the buildings to the left of the Kajima Building would later be demolished to build Weller Court mall. The Texaco Service Station and the Bank of Tokyo California, the New York Hotel, and the Towada restaurant would be demolished to build what is now the Union Bank of California. Photograph circa 1973.The first building in the United States to be constructed by Kajima International, Inc., is the Sumitomo Bank building, pictured here. The groundbreaking for the 15-story office building, located at the southwest corner of 1st and San Pedro Streets, featured ceremonial rituals performed by a Shinto priest on August 7, 1966. The street with the Tokyo Gardens Coffee Shop, the Orient, and the Sun Hotel, would later be torn down to build Weller Court shopping mall and the street renamed for Astronaut Ellison S.