Block 308

Maya Miyamoto (308-13-C) evacuee from Carmel

                     Civilian Personal Mess Hall Poston III employees.

 (L-R)  Miyota Tanbara, Takeno Tanbara, and Grace Tomiko Kurihara. 

Poston, Arizona. 1945. 

                Photo donated by Thomas M. Kurihara

 

Summer 1944. (L-R) Wataru "Waco" Shintani (308-14-C) evacuee from Terminal Island; Minoru "Mino" Araki (308-9-A) evacuee from Reedley; Mikio Floyd "Mickie" Nishida (308-3-D) evacuee from Reedley; and Tom Kurihara (308-14-A) evacuee originally from Berkeley/Pomona Assembly Center/Heart Mountain.     

   Photo donated by Thomas M. Kurihara

 
                                           RESETTLEMENT PHOTOS 

 This is a cooperative house in Philadelphia. It is a three story house and members take turns with cooking, dish washing, and cleaning. (L-R): Kenny Murase (Poston 308-1-C); (right foreground) Kimi Tanaka (308-10-D); and in the (right foreground), George Sakai, a voluntary evacuee. Photographer: Parker, Tom.  Philadelphia, Penn. 1/28/1944.

Mr. Kiichi Iwasaki (308-3-B) is assisting in irrigating the vineyard which belongs to his son, Charles Kiyoshi Iwasaki, located at Rt. 1, Box 384 in Reedley, Caifornia to which he returned with his son's family on March 1, 1945 from the Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston, Arizona).  Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru.  Reedley, CA  6/25/1945

Mrs. Ann I. Iwasaki of Rt. 1, Box 384, Reedley, California, formerly of the Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston 308-3-B)  and its first woman Block Manager, returned to her home with her husband and three children on March 1. She is shown surrounded by her children and their friends.  Front row, (L-R): Annie Torosian, a neighbor; and Takeo Larry Iwasaki.   Back row, Michi Kubota, Amy Iwasaki, Mrs. Iwasaki, and Norman Iwasaki. The Iwasaki home was one in which Levi Multanen fired several shotgun shots on the night of May 22, 1945 for which he was convicted and given 6-months' probation. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru.  Reedley, CA. 6/25/1945

 

 

Former Poston III block 308 internees relocated to Minnesota:

Seated (L-R) Michi Rokutani, Grace Tomiko Kurihara,

George Rokutani, and daughter, Barbara Rokutani 

St. Paul, Minnesota. 1965

  Photo donated by Thomas M. Kurihara