This video is from the Facebook Livestream of August 8, 2020 and is 1 hour 22 minutes long.

By the early 1930s San Jose’s Heinlenville Chinatown declined due to the Great Depression and other factors. The Filipino immigrants followed the Chinese businesses that moved into North Sixth Street. Enterprising Filipinos established shops and took up residence in Sixth Street, establishing a vibrant Filipino enclave, “Pinoytown,” that flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s.

In episode 3 of “Discovering the Hidden Histories of San Jose Japantown,” historian Robert Ragsac and artist-scholar Tony Santa Ana, both Filipino Americans, explore the colorful history of San Jose Pinoytown as well as what happened to the Filipino American community after Pinoytown ended in the 1950s.