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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGYQ_tanforan-assembly-center-commemorative-garden_San-Bruno-CA.html
This garden memorializes a time when this site, then the Tanforan Park Racetrack, was transformed into a temporary assembly center for persons of Japanese ancestry. On February 19, 1942, in the absence of charges or due process of law, President F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC32_first-shipboard-landing_San-Bruno-CA.html
On 18 January 1911, EUGENE ELY flew a Curtis Pusher biplane from this location, Tanforan Park, and landed on a wooden platform constructed aboard the Navy Cruiser USS Pennsylvania anchored in the San Francisco Bay. The first shipboard landing, an …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC2Y_tanforan-racetrack-japanese-assembly-center_San-Bruno-CA.html
Racetrack opened in 1899 and had racing seasons until it burned down in 1964. Many famous horses raced and won here. In 1942, Tanforan became a temporary assembly center for over 4000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were to be interned for the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC2V_seabiscuit_San-Bruno-CA.html
SeabiscuitBorn 1933Sired by Hard Tack - Out of Swing OnOwner - Charles S. HowardJockeysRed Pollard - George WoolfWorld's Champion Money Winner to 1938
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