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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to support legislation establishing February 19 as "Remembrance Day" for those Japanese who were sent to internment camps during World War II. Locally, an internment camp was set up at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25134
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 19, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 19, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Japanese Internment Camps
Santa Anita Park - Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
25329AN
Collection
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World War II internees reunite. Japanese Americans detained at Santa Anita Park before being sent to camps share photos, memories and friendship, at 75th anniversary event in Little Tokyo. See hard copy in VF Assembly Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34856
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 2017
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 2017
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Howo, Niko Makino
Japanese American National Museum
Mitarai, Evie Shigekuni
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Santa Anita Park (1934-1942)
Item ID
35046AN
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Newspaper Index
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Interview with author Brad Pearson who wrote the book The Eagles of Heart Mountain. He tackles the injustice of Japanese-American incarceration through the exploits of a World War II camp football team. Article mentions many evacuees were detained at Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia before being shipped out.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35880
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 2021
Pages
p. C7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 2021
Pages
p. C7
Subjects
Authors
Football
Japanese-Americans
Pearson, Brad
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
World War II
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A new exhibit at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum is about the Santa Anita Assembly Center, a temporary facility at Santa Anita Park that held Japanese Americans before they were sent to more permanent internment camps during World War II. The opening reception will feature speakers Osamu Miyamoto, Akkiko Nomura and others. Dana Dunn is the curator.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31821
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 13, 2009
Pages
p. Weekend 1, 2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 13, 2009
Pages
p. Weekend 1, 2
Subjects
Dunn, Dana
Miyamoto, Osamu
Nomura, Akkiko
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
32018AN
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Actor and activist George Takei, 75, famous for his portrayal of Sulu on television series Star Trek, will talk about gay rights and a childhood spent in internment camps at Santa Anita Park (assembly center), Tule Lake and Rohwer, Arkansas, during World War II. He will be speaking at Cal Poly Pomona on Tuesday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33419
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2013
Pages
p. B1, B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2013
Pages
p. B1, B8
Subjects
Actors
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Takei, George
Item ID
33615AN
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Honorary degrees were awarded to Japanese-American former Pasadena City College students who had their educations cut short by internment during World War II. Japanese-American "nisei" students at what was then Pasadena Junior College never got the chance to graduate with the Class of 1942. One honorary graduate, Fusae Hamane (died in 1997), born and raised in Pasadena, was told to report to Santa Anita Park race track before being sent to a camp in Gila Bend, AZ. The graduation came 68 years later.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32090
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 2010
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 2010
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
California Nisei College Diploma Project
Hamane, Fusae
Kuromiya, Yoshito
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Utsunomiya, Wade
Yoshihashi, Tokuji
Item ID
32287AN
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Michi Murayama of Alhambra created a quilt documenting the Japanese-American internment during WW II.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21152
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 30, 2001
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 30, 2001
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Japanese American Internment
Murayama, Michi
Item ID
21381AN
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Pasadena City College is preparing to tear down three campus buildings that were previously used as barracks in the Japanese Assembly Center at Santa Anita Park during WW II.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper17170
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 1999
Pages
p.- A1 w/photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 1999
Pages
p.- A1 w/photos
Subjects
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
17589AN
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Americans of Japanese descent gathered at Santa Anita Park yesterday to reflect on the dark period of history when Santa Anita Park was the largest assembly center for interned Japanese-Americans. Nearly 20,000 were processed at Santa Anita Park and sent to internment camps. Several people who were once incarcerated at Santa Anita Park were among those who gathered there at the Cherry Blossom Festival Southern California's 11th Annual Camp Stories Award Show and Auction.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32981
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Anderson, Wendy Fujihara
Japanese-Americans
Nishio, Shig (photo)
Item ID
33178AN
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Actor George Takei, discusses social media, justice, and his family's internment, which started at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. He spoke at Cal Poly Pomona.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33420
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 20, 2013
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 20, 2013
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Actors
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Takei, George
Item ID
33616AN
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Funeral services were held Tuesday at Arlington Mortuary in Riverside for Edwin Francis Lindros of Arcadia. He spent more than three years as a prisoner of war in World War II.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24381
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Lindros, Edwin Francis
Item ID
24572AN
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World War II veteran B-17 bomber pilot Jack McEwan is honored by Baldwin Stocker Elementary School students for Veterans Day.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34358
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
McEwan, Jack
McEwan, Richard
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Veterans Day
World War II veterans
Item ID
34551AN
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Harry Horak of Arcadia is 100 years old today. He is a World War II veteran and retired tax accountant. Includes more biographical information.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36136
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A7
Subjects
Centenarians
Horack, Harry
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A new magazine called "Atomic Ranch" will be dedicated to the boxy tract homes built after World War II and found in Arcadia, Duarte and Hastings Ranch and east Pasadena.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27385
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Housing
Item ID
27584AN
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World War II pilot Walter "Pat" Hollywood, a longtime Arcadia resident, celebrated Veterans Day and his 90th birthday yesterday. He was born in Pasadena in 1919 and served as an Army C-46 Commando pilot during World War II. He works out at the Fortanesce and Associates Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Center in Arcadia and walks for an hour at the Los Angeles County Arboretum every day.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31808
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia people
Hollywood, Walter "Pat" - biography
Nonagenarians
Veterans
Item ID
32005AN
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Men and women who served in battles from World War II to Desert Storm attended the ceremony at Arcadia County Park on Saturday to honor the veterans and to remember our servicemen.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24770
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Veterans
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Item ID
24964AN
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Former Arcadia resident, Chris Wachter, who is an Air Force captain and served in the Iraq War, met with Temple city resident Vernon Isgrig who trained pilots during World War II. Isgrig encouraged Wachter to become a pilot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25502
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 7, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 7, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Wachter, Chris
Isgrig, Vernon
War - Iraq
Item ID
25701AN
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Paul Graf, 90, of New Albany, Indiana, came back to Arcadia to see Santa Anita Park again. He had been based there as a United States Army staff sergeant during World War II, when the track was turned over to the Army Ordnance Corps for training purposes and was officially renamed Camp Santa Anita. Graf said he used to run for exercise on the Anita Chiquita training track, which was eliminated when the Santa Anita Fashion Park was built in the 1970s. Graf had arrived at Camp Santa Anita around November 1942, after the site had already been used as the Japanese Assembly Center. Photo shows Graf holding an issue of Man O' War, a newspaper issued by army personnel at Camp Santa Anita.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32550
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Camp Santa Anita
Graf, Paul
Santa Anita Park--1934-1942
United States Army Ordnance Corps
Veterans--World War II
Item ID
32749AN
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Arcadia man's 100th birthday to be family affair. Art Del Rey turns 100 this weekend. He is a World War II veteran (United States Navy). He had a successful career in real estate and started his own business in 1963, Art Del Rey Realty, Inc. in Arcadia, which thrives to this day.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36569
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2023
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2023
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Art Del Rey Realty, Inc.
Centenarians
Del Rey, Art
Realtors
Senior Citizens
Veterans
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World War II veteran Joe Sciarra, 95, makes history come alive at Holy Angels School in Arcadia during a Veterans Day assembly. Other veterans in attendance were Julian Andrews, 86 of Temple City (a veteran of the Korean War) and Darren Parsons, 45, a former U.S. Marine.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35611
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2019
Pages
p. A15
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2019
Pages
p. A15
Subjects
Andrews, Julian
Parsons, Darren
Rivera, Anissa
Sciarra, Joe
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