Densho Digital Archive
Raechel Donahue and Garrett Lindemann Collection
Title: Ann Fujikawa Interview
Narrator: Ann Fujikawa
Interviewer: Raechel Donahue
Location:
Date: 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-fann-01-0002

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RD: Oh, you're our first Tanforan. So you went to Tanforan race track, so tell me about Tanforan race track.

AF: We went to Tanforan race track, and we were in the quarantined area. We were one of the... I think we were the first family there. Could have been the first family there in the quarantined area. So we were in the new barracks.

RD: So you didn't have to stay in the stables.

AF: No, no. But before we were, before we left Tanforan, we had to move to the stable area.

RD: So you weren't in Tanforan for very long?

AF: No, it was just a few months. I don't remember exactly how long it was.

RD: Is Tanforan, would it have been Bay Meadows or Golden Gate Fields?

AF: Tanforan is now a shopping center.

RD: But isn't it by one of the tracks that exists now? Where is it? I'll find it, that's not your job.

AF: It's in San Bruno.

RD: It's in San Bruno, okay, because it was already gone by the time I came to San Francisco. But everybody I knew in San Francisco had gone to Tanforan.

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