tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post460392512832072053..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Ansel Adams Manzanar Photos at Bainbridge Island Historical MuseumStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-42369809143249896242012-06-21T20:24:19.194-08:002012-06-21T20:24:19.194-08:00I wasn't aware of the Adams book either.
One ...I wasn't aware of the Adams book either.<br /><br />One of the places I worked just before coming to Alaska, and over the winter after my 2nd year in Alaska, was Main Fish Company at Pier 60, below the Pike Street Market. The company was Nisei-owned. Many of the workers there, including the owner and some in management had spent the war at Manzanar or Minidoka.<br /><br />Most had been well off before WWII, but lost everything, their property being auctioned off in very, very political events that made a lot of sleazy white pols, judges and attorneys very wealthy.<br /><br />After the war, my friends at Main Fish Company picked themselves back up. Many Nisei who had lost everything became postwar millionaires, in farming, fisheries and other fields.<br /><br />Unlike Gypsies, Jews, Poles and others in Europe, at least they were not murdered by the hundreds of thousands.Philip Mungerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-694569983137964672012-06-21T05:54:05.939-08:002012-06-21T05:54:05.939-08:00we visited Manzanar 11 years ago and were very mov...we visited Manzanar 11 years ago and were very moved. I think they have since built a visitor center but when we were there, it was just a flat ruin (the government razed it to the ground, apparently in a fit of shame, shortly after the war) but you could tell from the foundations where the buildings had been. you could see traces of a Japanese garden, made of rocks, that was one of the few areas of beauty in the whole place. the cemetery was particularly poignant. <br /><br />I had not been aware of the Adams book but thanks for the tip; I'll try to acquire a copy.kathy in KYnoreply@blogger.com