Cover Page

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essay

Brief History

Gila River

Granada

Heart Mountain

Jerome

Manzanar

Minidoka

Poston

Rohwer

Topaz

Tule Lake

Isolation Centers

Add'l Facilities

Assembly Centers

DoJ and US Army Facilities

Prisons

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord

Chapter 16 (continued)
Assembly Centers

Tanforan Assembly Center, California

Figure 16.58. Oblique aerial view of the Tanforan Assembly Center. (from DeWitt 1943)

The Tanforan Assembly Center was located at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, 12 miles south of San Francisco. Occupied from April 28 to October 13, the assembly center held 8,033 evacuees (with a maximum of 7,816 at a time) from the San Francisco Bay area. The assembly center had about 130 barracks, half within the racetrack infield. In addition, stables were used to house evacuees, as at Santa Anita (Figures 16.58-16.60).

The racetrack, opened in 1899, burned down in 1964 and the area is now a shopping mall (Tanforan Mall). At the southwest entrance of the mall there is a large statue of a racehorse and jockey and a group of historical markers (Figure 16.61). One marker has a brief description of the racetrack and assembly center (Figure 16.62). Other markers commemorate the first airplane flight from a ship, the racehorse Seabiscuit, and an early developer.

Figure 16.59. Converted horse stalls and barracks at the Tanforan Assembly Center. (National Archives photograph)	Figure 16.60. Guard tower at the Tanforan Assembly Center. (National Archives photograph)
Figure 16.61. Tanforan Mall.	Figure 16.62. Historical marker at the Tanforan Mall.

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