I was staying in Sausalito while out in CA for a screening of my documentary in Alameda. Got some amazing foggy nights, took some video I may post too.
And while I was in the Bay Area I went to a branch of the National Archives in San Bruno and looked up my grandparents' files from when they were first interned at Tanforan. Tanforan was originally a racetrack, and during WW2 when they decided to remove all people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, Tanforan became an "Assembly Center" where the internees lived before being shipped off to the "evacuation" camps in the interior of the U.S. One of the many fucked up things the Japanese Americans had to endure was having to live in smelly horse stalls until they built barracks at Tanforan.
And of course today Tanforan's a shopping mall. They even had a Japanese fast food franchise in the food court. Ah, the irony.
In other news, I was temporarily off SG when my free ride ran out. Anyone notice?
