When the building opened in 1928, the On Leong Merchants Association used it as an immigrant assistance center that housed various meeting halls, a school, a shrine, and the Association's offices.
This is the granddaddy of all old-school graffiti shrines, now in its 37th year.
The article on Japanese high school baseball ("A Shrine to Baseball as a Martial Art," Aug. 23) highlights something that has been sorely lacking in American amateur and professional sports: sportsmanship.
Insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades were holed up in a school northeast of the shrine area.
Before withdrawing, the Americans attacked the school northeast of the Shrine of Abbas with tanks and called in an AC-130 to pound the area.
Haskell's history makes it as much shrine as school: a century ago, young Indians whose tribes' land had been seized by the United States were sent there to become Christians, cut their hair and shed their traditional customs and tongues.
At the station, the cabbie looked at the circle on my map around Samsung's Tangjeong Industry Complex (near a driving range, a foreign-language high school, and a Buddhist shrine) and took me there.
Much of the hospital and school were like a shrine to Mr. Zhang, who was depicted in paintings with an improbably high pompadour and a German shepherd by his side.
Across the street from the high school, near a makeshift shrine with candles, balloons and baby pictures, Mr. Brock held a sign like the one Mr. Pouillon had when he died.
Based in Osaka and three years old, the troupe performs at shrines, schools and other alternative spaces.
