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“Before long more than five thousand people, most of them from the L.A. area, were crammed into the makeshift housing at Pomona, living in the tight quarters of the small rooms, shuffling through the long lines in the mess hall, and hauling their towels and shampoo to the isolated and dirty restrooms.”

From  Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant

View of barracks being constructed on Pomona Fairgrounds, Apr. 8, 1942, Pomona Assembly Center, California. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, Ctrl. #: NWDNS-210-G-B88, NARA ARC #: 536837, WRA, Photographer Clem Albers More info »

View of barracks being constructed on Pomona Fairgrounds, Apr. 8, 1942, Pomona Assembly Center, California. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, Ctrl. #: NWDNS-210-G-B88, NARA ARC #: 536837, WRA, Photographer Clem Albers

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