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By Todd Matthews • December 11, 2015 11:08 am

Customers crowd into a booth at the Banquet Tavern near Seattle's Chinatown in 1955. Ogawa's photographs are posted on the wall above the booths. (ELMER OGAWA PHOTOGRAPH / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SPECIAL COLLECTIONS)

Customers crowd into a booth at the Banquet Tavern near Seattle’s Chinatown in 1955. Ogawa’s photographs are posted on the wall above the booths. (ELMER OGAWA PHOTOGRAPH / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SPECIAL COLLECTIONS)