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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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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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Newspaper
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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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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Arcadia Library presents Japanese Artist's Journey. The life and legacy of artist J.T. Sata will be the subject of a virtual program on October 10, presented by Arcadia Public Library in partnership with Japanese American National Museum. The book J.T. Sata: a Japanese Immigrant in Search of Western Art will be discussed by authors Frank Sata (son of J.T. Sata) and Naomi Hirahara. (J.T. Sata and family were imprisoned at Santa Anita Assembly Center during World War II).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35834
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 8, 2020
Pages
p. 7
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 8, 2020
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Artists Immigrants Japanese-Americans Hirahara, Naomi Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese Sata, Frank Sata, J.T. Takeda, Bryan
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Charles Cooper continues his series "Memories of Arcadia" with a story about the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese, where at its height, it housed more than 18,000 people. Japanese had a long local history, dating back to workers on the Santa Anita Ranch, and local residents had the uncomfortable feeling of seeing friends behind the wire at the track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32004
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 11, 2003
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 11, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Cooper, Charles
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
32184AN
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Ed Inouye of West Covina, whose family was sent to the internment camp at Santa Anita Park during World War II, died on February 19th. He was instrumental in getting the government to pay reparations to some of the imprisoned families.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25195
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Inouye, Ed
Japanese Internment Camps
Santa Anita Park - Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
25391AN
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Famed track has infamous past. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51 and in VF.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33935
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 26 , 1978
Pages
p. A1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 26 , 1978
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
34129AN
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Food critic Merrill Shindler favorably reviews Izakaya Tonchinkan, a Japanese restaurant at Arcadia Plaza, a mini-mall at 713 W. Duarte Road, just off Baldwin Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35248
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 2018
Pages
p. A3, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 2018
Pages
p. A3, A8
Subjects
Izakaya Tonchinkan
Japanese restaurants
Shindler, Merrill
Item ID
35437AN
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General information

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4298
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 26, 1942 p. 1 (evacuation base rising at track)
April 2, 1942 p. 1 (closure of Huntington Drive denied)
April 8, 1942 p. 1 (race track converted into "Little Tokyo")
October 8, 1942 p. 1 (Japanese almost gone)
October 29, 1942 p. 1 (barricades on Huntington Drive removed)
October 29, 1942 West Arcadia Section, section 2, p. 1 (Final Japanese evacuation completed)
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 26, 1942 p. 1 (evacuation base rising at track)
April 2, 1942 p. 1 (closure of Huntington Drive denied)
April 8, 1942 p. 1 (race track converted into "Little Tokyo")
October 8, 1942 p. 1 (Japanese almost gone)
October 29, 1942 p. 1 (barricades on Huntington Drive removed)
October 29, 1942 West Arcadia Section, section 2, p. 1 (Final Japanese evacuation completed)
Subjects
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Item ID
4174AN
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Gilb Museum opens temporary exhibit about Japanese-American internment.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34796
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 2, 2017
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 2, 2017
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Santa Anita Pacemaker
Hicks, Dana
Item ID
34987AN
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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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How Arcadia gained a rare piece of history. Riyo Sato was a developing artist by the time she was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Park, in 1942, before being transferred to Wyoming, to a different detention facility called “Heart Mountain.” She left behind sketches of Santa Anita Park which will be displayed at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35350
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 13, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 13, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Artists
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage
Hashimoto, Pam
Hicks, Dana, Dr.
Japanese-Americans
Japanese Internment Camps
Patterson, Galen
Santa Anita Assembly Center
Sato, Riyo
Item ID
35540AN
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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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Lew Watanabe, 83, renowned landscape architect dies. He was a beloved "Goodwill Ambassador" and true friend of the Sierra Madre community.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34573
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
May 21, 2016
Pages
p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 21, 2016
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Artists
Gardeners
Japanese Americans
Landscape architects
Watanabe, Lew
Item ID
34765AN
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Life interrupted: personal sketches behind barbed wire, Santa Anita, Summer 1942, Riyo Sato (1913-2009). The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage will be displaying Riyo Sato's sketches September 14-November 2, 2013.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33521
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 6, 2013
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 6, 2013
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage--Exhibitions
Japanese-Americans
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Sato, Riyo
Item ID
33716AN
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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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Newspaper
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
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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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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 30, 2001
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Japanese American Internment
Murayama, Michi
Item ID
21381AN
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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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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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Newspaper
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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Personal sketches behind barbed wire--Riyo Sato (1913-2009) will be on exhibit at Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage from September 14 through November 2, 2013. Riyo Sato was interned at Santa Anita Assembly Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33596
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2013
Pages
p. 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2013
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage--Exhibitions
Japanese-Americans
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Sato, Riyo
Item ID
33791AN
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