Before Executive Order 9066

These are all the Japanese American children attending Alisal Grammar School just before the evacuation. Alisal is a school district just east of center city Salinas. The school was located at Del Monte Ave & Williams Road.  This photo was especially requested by E. L. Low, school principal.

Japanese Americans children were sent to Salinas Assembly Center, then to Poston, Arizona. This photo taken just before entering the Salinas Assembly Center in April 1942 and shipped to Poston, Arizona via train on July 4, 1942. This photo (56 JAs) appeared in the 1942 Alisal Union School Yearbook.

1st graders
Hada, Eiko [1st row, 4th in from L]
Ikeda, Laye [1st row, 6th in from L]
Kondo, Isao
Mayeda, Akiko
Mukai, Toichi
Yonahira, Satako

2nd Graders
Ikeda, A. Bunji [1st row, 6th in from R]
Oshita, Mutsuo [1st row, 4th in from R]
Ikeda, Simona Yuriko [2nd row, 6th in from L]
Takemoto, Sadeo

3rd Graders
Kamatani, Joshio
Kido, Sukaye
Kondo, Sally
Mayeda, Kiku
Tabuchi, Shinobu
Taniguchi, Yasuye [2nd row, 9th in from L]
Taramura, Emiko
Yonemoto, Lucille

4th Graders
Hada, Miyoko [2nd row, 2nd in from L]
Ikeda, Faye [2nd row, 7th in from L]
Yonemoto, Hirato

5th Grade 

(names are needed)

6th Graders

Taniguchi, Natsuko [2rd row, 10th in from L]
(some names are missing)

7th Graders
Gyotoku, Akimi
Gyotoku, Tamatsu
Hikida, Yoneko
Kondo, Joe
Mukai, George
Nishimura, Herbert
Yonehira, Ryie
Yonemoto, Lily
Yonemoto, Take

8th Graders
Taniguchi, Itsuko Eddy [3rd row, 5th in from L], Poston Block  220

(some names are missing)

Information and photo submitted by Albert Ikeda.
       

Block 220

Eitaro Shigemasa (220-13-F) Funeral   
9/1943

1943 High School graduates

Front: (L-R): ________, _______, and ______. 

Back row (L-R):  ________, ________, _______, and ______.

Block 220 Mustangettes

Top Row (L-R):  Fusaye Kazaoka, Yoshiko Hayashi, Susumu Hayashi,
Itsuko Taniguchi, Alice Shimizu, Mitsuko Endo.
Bottom Row (L-R) :  Nancy Endo, Lillie Arima,  Nattie Taniguchi,  Betsy
Onitsuka, Nancy Yamamoto

Evacuees of Japanese ancestry arriving at the Salinas Assembly Center. 

(L-R): Unknown, Kanetsuchi Izumizaki, Arthur Mitsuro Izumizaki, 

George Yutaka Izumizaki, Robert Tamotsu Iwamasa, Makiyo Margaret Iwamasa, 

and Fumiyo Isumizaki.  Photographer: Clem Albers. 3/31/1942.

 

Robert Iwamasa and mother, Makiyo Margaret Iwamasa.

Salinas Assembly Center, California.  4/1942

First Grade. 1944

Back row, right: Robert Iwamasa, age 7 years. (220-14-G)

Poston camp II. 1945 2nd Grade

1st row (L-R):  2.Vernon Toshio Matsuura, 4. Doris Kitamura, 7. Larry Wakayama, 9. Ted Abe. 2nd row: 2. Dorothy Tokushige, 3. Keiko Faye Fujii, 4. Jo Anne Wada, 6. Toshio Takemoto.  Back row: 2. Midori Sato Matsumoto, 7. Robert Iwamasa (220-14-G).

Bird Carving and Painting Class. 1944

(L-R): 3rd row, 4th from front: Makiyo Margaret Iwamasa block 220-14-G.

Woodcarved and painted bird pins by Makiyo Iwamasa.

Poston, Ariz. block 220-14-G. 1944-1945.

 Woodcarved and painted bird pins by Makiyo Margaret Iwamasa.

Poston, Ariz. block 220-14-G. 1944-1945.

Woodcarved and painted bird pins by Makiyo Margaret  Iwamasa. 

Poston, Ariz. block 220-14-G.  1944-1945.

Woodcarved and painted bird pins by Makiyo Iwamasa.

Poston, Ariz. block 220-14-G.  1944-1945.

Funeral for Yoshino Yonemura  1/9/1945

(L-R): Little Robert Iwamasa, Reverend Chikao Fujimura, Kitako Tsuda,

Makiyo Iwamasa, Kanetsuchi Izumizaki, Fumiyo Izumizaki, Mrs. Tsuda, 

Reverend Yoshio Iwanaga and Mrs. Helen Iwanaga.

Funeral for Yoshino Yonemura  1/9/1945

                                         Photos courtesy of Bob Iwamasa

Block 220 Mess Hall Crew