A walk back through time.
Ozaki’s grandparents both witnessed Curtis Park during the post-war era; her aunt was born in a house near the park itself, and her grandfather lived at 27th and Larimer streets, right across from. Her father grew up there, and one of his favorite stories, according to Ozaki, is about tortillas.
Many Japanese moved to Curtis Park after being released from Camp Amache, the World War II incarceration camp in Granada. “[Denver] seemed like a more welcoming place,” Ozaki says, “because of the governor, Ralph Carr, and because there was a population already here. And then everyone ended up in Five Points and Curtis Park because of redlining.”Fusing cultures is at the heart of not only Ozaki’s family story, but of Curtis Park's.
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