r/TheWayWeWere

Operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1942 to 1948, it was the largest family internment camp in the U.S. during World War II, holding Japanese, German, and Italian Americans, as well as Latin Americans of Japanese and German descent.

Layout Features: The map details residential sections (such as Japanese and German sections and "victory huts"), a high school and grade school, a swimming pool, a Japanese market, a hospital, guard towers, and surrounding barbed-wire fences.

Image Source: Bush scene, with bush tramway line. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-2036-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23032257

He passed later that same year in November from acute pneumonia at the age of 62.

Photo credit: John A. Whipple

Mom in law was an absolute peach and her dad was the school of cool. Sadly, I never met my wife’s grandmother, but my wife does bear a significant resemblance.

They started with a toolset and that truck. When he passed away he had over 150 trucks and I don't know how many employees. The whole company shut down and employees and families alike came to his funeral.