The grocery store at the corner of Allen & King streets in San Bernardino, California was opened around 1914, by Sam & Tillie Freedman, immigrants from Russia. 

Sam & Tillie eventually moved uptown, and leased the store to Jimmy Sakaguchi, who was married to George Sakoguchi's sister. 

Nineteen-year -old George worked for his brother-in-law for awhile (before leasing his own grocery store in nearby Riverside).