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I was bored tonight so I started looking up info. on the River area. Well come to find out that during WWII when the United States was putting Japanese Americans in Evacuation Camps. Well I bet you will never guess where one of these camps was located at. Give up, in Poston, a little jerk water town you pass on your way to Parker via I-95N. Since I don't know how to post pictures I will just put up the link and if anyone wants to put up pictures of it, that would be cool. They have some pictures of Parker from 1942, very small town back the, pretty small town now. hehe. Well hopefully someone on here will find this intresting. I am a history buff and I like cool stuff like this.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer
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Where are all the boats:D :confused: :D
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Hey Bull,
Cool Pics. Interesting stuff.
You should audition for the Hot Boat Huel Houser part.
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Interesting site. Some good info. Amazing that the government rounded all those people up and "interned" them yet some of them still volunteered to go and fight the war.
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WOW; Just think if they would have done something like that after 9-11 :eek: :confused:
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Some more information on the area. If you drive the 177 way back to Desert Center/29 Palms Way once you past the Shoe Tree and Iron Mountain there are like 3 Cement Markers about 6 feet tall. The align the side of the Highway I think 2 are on the right and one is on the left. Well anyways everytime I drive by those things I want to see what they are about, but I am usually in too much of a rush. Well anyways I finally stopped by and read them. Those places were where General Patton trained the troops. So there is a lot of history out there in that Desert. Here's some pics, so put them up if interested.
http://www.ca.blm.gov/needles/patton.html
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Originally posted by WaterBox
WOW; Just think if they would have done something like that after 9-11 :eek: :confused: That "Internment" would not happen nowadays for obvious reasons. People thought alot differently back then. Call it what you want, racism, paranoia, ignorance, it all factored in.
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Cool stuff. I love history. I went to the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox Kentucky in 1998 (on two separate trips actually) when my son was training at the Ft. for his Armor Crewman MOS.
There was quite a section in the museum about the training in the deserts of California and Nevada to prepare for the North Africa Invasion.
Very cool stuff....
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How's the shoe tree coming along.
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How is that shoe tree coming along, is it starting to grow back?
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Originally posted by thebull
How is that shoe tree coming along, is it starting to grow back?
Yeah, it was kinda losing its SOLE....arr arr....:rolleyes:
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It's deader than a beaver cap.
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O. K. Mr history buff LOL add this one, it suprised me ? Before Hwy I-5 days - Hwy 99 ruled the inland Kalifornia routes ,Right? well 1/2 way between oregon & Meh- ico they planted a Pine tree on the north of center & a You guessed it a Palm tree on the south of center. How many of you noticed it & it's there today!!!!!!
Yosemite Sam
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I got some good pics, check em out!
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Some of those pics remind me of those campy 50s horror movies. One even has the obligitory "scientist" in the lab smock down by the water (where the monster comes out and kills all around BUT the scientist).
That musta really sucked like RD said...
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Can somebody upload those pics to this page?
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Pretty wild pics....also, if anyone wants to see some old pics of Desert Center area and Patton's setup...stop by Mcgoos and use the restroom...along the backwall, the gentleman that owns it has some nice old pics...stopped by one day, and he happen to be in back working on the books, and he gave me a 15 min overview of all that happened out there during WWII, and explained all the pics...Nice gentleman who owns that place.
