After internment, many Japanese Americans originally from the San Fernando Valley, returned to find out that they no longer had a home to return to. Thereafter, trailer park camps, such as in Burbank and Sun Valley, became home to many Japanese Americans.
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Burbank Trailer Park II, circa 1945

Image Contributed by: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley

Names of people: N/A

Date: circa November 1945

Place: Lake View Terrace, CA, U.S.A.

Photograph by: Charles E. Mace

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Description: Whiling time away in the Winona Housing project at Burbank, California, where temporary trailer quarters are provided while returnees locate permanent homes in and around Los Angeles.

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For more information about this project, please contact:

Edith Chen, Professor Asian American Studies Dept.
18111 Nordhoff St., JR 340
Northridge, CA 91330-8251
edith.chen@csun.edu
818-677-4966

Nancy Takayama
San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center
nt.high.mtn@juno.com