Griffith Park Internment Camp

Griffith Park Internment Camp. , During World War II, before the mass incarceration of West Coast Japanese Americans, thousands of Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant leaders were confined without due process in U.S. detention and internment camps as suspected threats to national security. , One internment camp, operated by the Army, was in Griffith Park at the site of the former Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Riverside. From February 1942 to July 1943, this internment camp held small numbers of men for brief periods of time until they could be moved to other camps away from the West Coast. , The Griffith Park Camp consisted of two separate but adjoining areas enclosed by two ten-foot fences topped with barbed wire. Initially, one enclosure had three portable CCC barracks that could accommodate 150 individuals. Later, 50 Army pyramidal tents were added to the second enclosure to accommodate 400 additional people. , The Army retained control of this property until 1947. Today it is the home of the Travel Town Museum and the Los Angeles Live Steamers. , , photo captions: , Katsuo Nagai was a typesetter for Rafu Shimpo, a prominent Los Angeles Japanese American newspaper. He was arrested because of an alleged affiliation with the Hollywood Japanese Language School. , , Ralph Averga, 48 - Removed from a fishing boat in San Pedro. , , A rare photo of the abandoned Griffith Park Internment Camp barracks during a walk-through in 1945 to determine suitability for housing returning soldiers. Instead, the National Guard airfield (now the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot) was turned into a Quonset hut settlement called Rodger Young Village.