{"id":1002,"date":"2016-06-08T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/?page_id=1002"},"modified":"2018-10-29T20:35:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:35:49","slug":"pomona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/pomona\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pomona<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<\/h1>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner \"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-7 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pomona-Asembly-Ctr-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pomona-Asembly-Ctr-Map-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pomona-Asembly-Ctr-Map\" width=\"413\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pomona-Asembly-Ctr-Map-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pomona-Asembly-Ctr-Map-14x27.jpg 14w, https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pomona-Asembly-Ctr-Map.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;\">United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Washington 1943, p.\u00a0165<\/span><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pomona &#8220;Assembly Center&#8221;\u00a0was located on the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds (Fairplex) 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.\u00a0From May 7 to August 24 1942, the camp held as many as 5,434 incarcerees. They came mostly from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Clara. They were transferred to Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming.\u00a0The camp consisted of 309 barracks with only 72 square feet per person, well under the standard of 200 square feet per couple. There were also 8 mess halls \/ kitchens, 8 bathroom \/ shower \/ laundry facilities, and 36 other shower \/ latrine buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/parkhistory\/online_books\/anthropology74\/ce17c.htm#album\">Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War 2 Japanese American Relocation Sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopedia.densho.org\/Pomona_%28detention_facility%29\/\">Densho.org<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"w-btn-wrapper width_auto align_left\"><a class=\"w-btn us_btn_1 us-btn-style_3 icon_none\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.usfca.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/p15129coll10\/searchterm\/Pomona\/field\/coveraa\/mode\/all\/conn\/and\/order\/nosort\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Documents<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pomona Los Angeles, California United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942.\u00a0Washington 1943, p.\u00a0165 Pomona \"Assembly Center\"\u00a0was located on the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds (Fairplex) 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.\u00a0From May 7 to August 24 1942, the camp held as many as 5,434...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1002","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}