| Caption | On the night following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the deserted Main Street of the Japanese fishing community at Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California, United States, 8 Dec 1941. ww2dbase | |||||
| Photographer | Unknown | |||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUniversity of California Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library via Wikimedia Commons | |||||
| Link to Source | Link | |||||
| Identification Code | ark:/13030/hb0779n6bd | |||||
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| Photo Size | 5,822 x 4,117 pixels | |||||
| Photos on Same Day | 8 Dec 1941 | |||||
| Photos at Same Place | Los Angeles, California, United States | |||||
| Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||
| Licensing | Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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| Lat/Long | 33.7392, -118.2688 |
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27 Jul 2022 10:37:20 AM
This community was home to about 3,500 Japanese Americans. On 9 Feb 1942, all of the older men were taken into custody, ten days before the Executive Order authorizing internment was signed. Once Executive Order 9066 was signed, the remaining residents were given 48 hours to evacuate their homes before they were sent to internment camps (most of them going to Manzanar). This was the first Japanese community to be evacuated and interned en masse. Once vacated, the entire neighborhood was bulldozed to the ground.