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The Shops at Tanforan is a regional shopping mall in San Bruno, California, United States. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula , 10 miles (16 km) south of San Francisco city limits. The site was originally used as a horse racing track from 1899 until 1964, when the grandstand was destroyed by fire.
San Bruno (from Spanish 'St. Bruno') is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, incorporated in 1914. The population was 43,908 at the 2020 United States Census . The city is between South San Francisco and Millbrae , adjacent to San Francisco International Airport and Golden Gate National Cemetery ; it is approximately 12 miles ...
Tanforan Park was acquired by the Wartime Civil Control Administration in April 1942 [103] and from April to October 1942, used as the Tanforan Assembly Center, where 7,800 Japanese-Americans from the San Francisco Bay Area were held after the signing of Executive Order 9066. For comparison, the population of San Bruno was 6,519 in 1940. [104]
[3]: 22–23 The City of San Bruno requested the new station be named Tanforan Park after the racetrack and later mall that occupied the site, but BART officials, sensitive to the past history of Tanforan as an Assembly Center for Japanese-American citizens during World War II and the recent lawsuit, declined the request in 2002. [4]
In March 2012, the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee was formed to exhibit photographs of detainees at Tanforan on the concourse level of the San Bruno BART station; [23] the photographs were drawn from those taken by famed documentary photographer Dorothea Lange in 1942 and some were paired with photographs of the same detainees ...
John Joseph Bullman (c.1870 – March 6, 1922) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who competed at racetracks across the United States.. Riding at tracks on the American East Coast, in 1900 Bullman won the Matron Stakes at Morris Park Racecourse in The Bronx, New York then later that year won the American Derby at Washington Park Race Track in Chicago before going west in the late ...
Tanforan may refer to one of these locations near San Bruno, California: Tanforan Assembly Center , a transfer center for interned Japanese Americans during World War II The Shops at Tanforan , a shopping mall built upon the site of the Tanforan Assembly Center
English: Tanforan Memorial at the plaza between the Shops at Tanforan and the San Bruno BART station. Date: 11 September 2022 (according to Exif data) Source: Own work: