Photo courtesy of Jon Villalobos
Photo courtesy of Jon Villalobos
James Nubile videographer of the "Passing Poston" fame
Photo courtesy of Jon Villalobos
Making the big turn onto the street
Photo courtesy of Jon Villalobos
Its gone!
Photo courtesy of Jon Villalobos
Photo courtesy of Jon Villalobos
Photo courtesy of Marlene Shigekawa
Photo courtesy of Marlene Shigekawa
Photo courtesy of Marlene Shigekawa
Video courtesy of Marlene Shigekawa
Video courtesy of Marlene Shigekawa
Part of WWII internment camp is returned to Poston
by Wally Torres, 7/18/2012
From
the ashes of a property known for its mystery emerges a rare thing indeed: a
building taken almost 70 years ago from a World War II Japanese internment camp
and kept at this property in Parker ever since.
The old Alewine property,
site of the long-abandoned Alewine Furniture Store, was recently razed to the
ground after a series of fires and general deterioration (one of the fires was
ignited intentionally in order to destroy a pile of unstable dynamite found
there). The only items remaining Wednesday morning on the cleared city block
were an old trailer and this mysterious wooden building.
Built in 1942 at the ‘Poston
Relocation Center’, the largest of ten internment camps built by the U.S.
Government which was then filled with almost 18,000 Japanese-American people
during World War II, the old barrack is one of many that were removed after the
camp closed in 1945.
Now, it is being transported
back to Poston as part of a restoration project, and will be seen there by many
visitors each winter who take trips to the site of the old internment camp.
Steve, a Japanese-American who is involved in the building’s move, said there
are two others like it.
“One of them is in Los
Angeles,” he said, “and the other is at the Smithsonian.”
The oversized load was
escorted by law enforcement through the town of Parker Wednesday morning, and
then through the agricultural valley toward the center of the Colorado River
Indian Tribes reservation. It will remain there as a reminder of extraordinary
times in America 70 years ago, circumstances that created Arizona’s
third-largest ‘city’ in Poston, AZ.
Source: http://www.parkerliveonline.com/2012/07/18/part-of-wwii-internment-camp-is-returned-to-poston/
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