Does anyone know that The Los Angeles County Fairgrounds were once used as an interment camp for Japanese POWs

Question

They were housed in the stables on the fairgrounds as used as free labor to dig the city's water lines and such. does anyone have any more info about this? There used to a exhibit where the motorsports museum is now that was dismantled in the 80s.

Answer 1

Before the POWs, the Pomona base was a temporary holding station for citizens of Japanese origin being sent to internment camps elsewhere....

"Pomona: This was the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds on the north edge of Pomona. It processed ethnic Japanese from May 7 to August 24, 1942. During that time its population reached a maximum of 5,434. Nearly everyone processed here was sent to Heart Mountain, Wyoming. On September 4, 1942 the center was turned over to the Army's Ordnance Motor Transport Agency and became known as the Pomona Ordnance Depot. The depot stocked a wide variety of ordnance materials and for much of the war serviced the California/ Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA) (Desert Training Center), just east of Pomona. The depot had a prisoner of war camp holding about 1,150 POWs who worked at the depot."
http://www.militarymuseum.org/LAWWII.html
http://www.militarymuseum.org/PomonaOrdDepot.html
http://www.momomedia.com/CLPEF/chrono.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment_in_the_United_States