{"id":13592,"date":"2016-11-09T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/historic-cafe-in-ketchikan-demolished\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:02:37","slug":"historic-cafe-in-ketchikan-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/historic-cafe-in-ketchikan-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic cafe in Ketchikan demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN<\/strong> \u2014 A Ketchikan cafe that\u2019s been in business for about 80 years has been torn down to make way for retail and living space.<\/p>\n<p>James \u201cJimmy\u201d Tanino and his wife, Hide, both from Japan, opened Jim\u2019s Cafe in the 1930s. The building was once a popular hangout for mill workers, cannery hands, fisherman and patrons of nearby brothels, The Ketchikan Daily News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The building was brought down by work crews over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>George Tanino, 78, ordered the demolition, saying he couldn\u2019t do much to resurrect the dilapidated building that housed his family\u2019s business for most of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was time for it to go. I just didn\u2019t have my priorities correct in order to save it,\u201d Tanino said.<\/p>\n<p>James Tanino died in 1971 and his wife passed away nearly a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor them, they were one of these immigrants who constantly worked, I mean, there were no holidays; whether it\u2019s Christmas, they were open; Thanksgiving, they were open; Fourth of July, they were open,\u201d George Tanino said.<\/p>\n<p>Tanino\u2019s plans for the new two-story building include street-level shops and living quarters on the upper level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpstairs will be one apartment that I\u2019ll be living in,\u201d Tanino said. \u201cI\u2019m comfortable living in Ketchikan, so I think it\u2019s going to work out fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said construction crews will work to make sure it complements the Stedman-Thomas Historic District, which is a concern for Stephen Reeve, executive director of Historic Ketchikan. Reeve said he wished the building could have been saved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, it got to the point of really being beyond the point of its useful life, just because it needed so much maintenance and other things,\u201d Reeve said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there was really any choice, sad as it may be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 A Ketchikan cafe that\u2019s been in <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/business\/\">business<\/a> for about 80 years has been torn down to make way for retail and living space. James \u201cJimmy\u201d Tanino and his wife, Hide, both from Japan, opened Jim\u2019s Cafe in the 1930s. The building was once a popular hangout for mill workers, cannery hands, fisherman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13592"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}