Manzanar
Dec 4, 2023 14:38:23 #
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Dec 4, 2023 14:57:51 #
Great shots of a place that's a sorry marker of a dark time in the USA's history. I visited Manzanar a couple of years ago, and was both depressed that the country could do this to its own citizens, but also buoyed by the resilience of the Japanese-Americans imprisoned there. Thanks!
Dec 4, 2023 15:10:32 #
biggin1a
Loc: San Antonio, TX
Read "The Manazar Fishing Club". Been there several times with a group of artists that used to convene there to paint and raise funds for the museum. One of the artists, who is now deceased, was interned there as a child. Over 500 hundred films/TV shows have been filmed in that area around the Alabama Hills.
Dec 4, 2023 15:28:26 #
Steve E wrote:
Japanese internment center.
I have visited it too about 11 years ago. Horrible that it and other such places exist. I have a Japanese photo friend, around my age whose father, aunts, and uncles were interned there during the war years. I saw their family name on the wall there several times and asked him about it. Yup, his family. The Eastern Sierras in the background are beautiful.
Dec 4, 2023 19:21:38 #
biggin1a wrote:
Read "The Manazar Fishing Club". Been there several times with a group of artists that used to convene there to paint and raise funds for the museum. One of the artists, who is now deceased, was interned there as a child. Over 500 hundred films/TV shows have been filmed in that area around the Alabama Hills.
Yes, lots of Westerns and SciFi and other films made at and near the Alabama Hills and Mount Whitney. Manzanar is about 10 miles North. You guys raised funds for the Manzanar Relocation/Interment Museum or the Alabama Hills/Lone Pine Museum of Western Film History? I have been to both.
Interesting, there is a fishing story about the internees. There is a lot of info about L.A. Portrait photographer Toyo Miyatake who snuck in a camera lens and then built a camera in the wood and machine shops. The administrators and guards must have known as they brought film to him to use. He was careful what he chose to photograph from the inside.
Dec 4, 2023 23:53:54 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
One of my buddies father was interned there. No, not our proudest moment.
Dec 5, 2023 08:02:37 #
Dec 5, 2023 13:06:39 #
Just Fred wrote:
Great shots of a place that's a sorry marker of a dark time in the USA's history. I visited Manzanar a couple of years ago, and was both depressed that the country could do this to its own citizens, but also buoyed by the resilience of the Japanese-Americans imprisoned there. Thanks!
So true.
Dec 6, 2023 20:35:04 #
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