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.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Adventure 003, Site 042-Pinedale Japanese Internment Center

 Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 003, Site 042-Pinedale Japanese Internment Center
California Landmark Number: 936


Team: YOLT
Date:  September 5, 2013
Location:
Coordinates: N 36° 50.661, W 119° 48.265
Contemplating the Internment
Address: 625 Alluvial Fresno, CA


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



Last year when we visited this site, we noted that 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. This year was no different. We still looked at and contemplated the commemoration of these events. These words should remind us that never again do we let this happened to any Americans, no matter what race they are. Especially pungent was the words which Captain Ronald Regan said that this country was not built on race but built upon an idea of where people could be free. Earlier this year, we visited Manzanar and were reminded of where Japansese Americans were imprisoned due to their skin color.



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
Water Tower from Lumber Mill




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Location: 625 West Alluvial Avenue, Fresno, CA 93711, USA

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