Capture Calif

Capture California

What is a YOLT? Well, you may have heard the term YOLO. Gary and Sherri think we can live again, not as James Bond, but as being reborn. Consequently, we are having fun in our life, after all, You Only Live Twice.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Adventure 051, Site 123 Pinedale Assembly Center

Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 051, Site 123 Pinedale Assembly Center
California Landmark Number: 936

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 24, 2012
Location:
Latitude: N 36° 50.661
Longitude: W 119° 48.265
Address: 625 Alluvial Fresno, CA





 Description:
Date Interned: May 1942 until July 23rd, 1942.

This was a very sobering moment as we learned about the assembly of Americans with Japanese ancestry in Fresno. It was a sad day in our history of our country, State, and City that this could happen. It took more research that it should have to find out about the memorial that was dedicated in 2007. I shop near the memorial and never knew it was there. The Americans with Japanese ancestry were assembled in Pinedale on a corner of the old Sugar Pine Lumber Yard/ Camp Pinedale. Most of the Internees came from Oregon which had to be a real shock to come to Fresno when it is hot. The property in which they had the camps was sold but the new owner had to provide the space for the memorial. The memorial consisted of plaques that told the story of Americans with Japanese ancestry, Military Signal Aviation Unit Training Center, and the Sugar Pine Lumber Yard. We were touched by many of the stories that were told on the plaques. We knew some of the family names. There was a farmer to be interned. His neighbor bought his property for $1.00 and said they would return it when he came back. The farmer took care of the property and honored his word and returned the property when he came back. There was a story of student that could not finish high school because of the interment. It shows picture of her 50 plus years later going through a graduation at her previous high school. There are pictures of President Clinton when the United States was admitting their mistakes and trying to make it right. There was a story of a young man that did not assemble and was trying the court system to right the wrong. I t did not work. As many of the words said of this plaque, may we never have this horrible event ever occur again.



State of California's California Historical Landmarks
NO. 934 TEMPORARY DETENTION CAMPS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS-PINEDALE ASSEMBLY CENTER - The temporary detention camps (also known as 'assembly centers') represent the first phase of the mass incarceration of 97,785 Californians of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, thirteen makeshift detention facilities were constructed at various California racetracks, fairgrounds, and labor camps. These facilities were intended to confine Japanese Americans until more permanent concentration camps, such as those at Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, could be built in isolated areas of the country. Beginning on March 30, 1942, all native-born Americans and long-time legal residents of Japanese ancestry living in California were ordered to surrender themselves for detention.
Location: Pinedale



From Dedication of site on plaque ‘This Remembrance Plaza is co-sponsored by the Clovis Veterans Memorial District in honor of all Veterans who have served in the U.S. military, specifically those of Japanese-American descent during World War II. Their bravery, loyalty and dignity serve as an inspiration to an entire nation, for all times.’



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Location: 625 E Alluvial Ave, Fresno, CA 93720, USA

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