Historic Hood River
9:40AM Detail
5-11-2012
Notes
Detail from the 9:40 AM image. Sixth of a series.
The History Museum of Hood River County
Bringing the Rich History of Hood River County to Life
The History Museum of Hood River County
Bringing the Rich History of Hood River County to Life
Detail from the 9:40 AM image. Sixth of a series.
nels
Such a story in their faces and heads, and a little child in arms. Heads down, one man looking at the photographer as if to think, do we look like animals in the zoo?
Arthur
nels, we have all heard this story but always either second hand or in accounts written some time afterward. These photographs provide a different sort of account. We’re all used to reading faces and body language. This image is a first hand contemporaneous account, even though it happened 70 years ago.
Ellen Dittebrandt
This is so sad!
Connie
The one that gets me is the little boy standing to the far left of the image. He is carrying a box that appears to be a bit big for him. I wonder what he has in the box – how can he at that age understand everything that is going on?? That makes me sad.
Homer Yasui
There are not a lot of living Nisei from the Hood River Valley, but I am one of them, and I was one of those people on that train 73 years ago.
I think that is Joe Sumoge on the left side, wearing the baseball cap.
I think that is Katsusaburo Tamura behind the lady in the middle, with a white feather in her hat….and I will dare guess that’s his wife, Michiko Tamura, wearing that hat.
I think that’s George Akiyama in the middle, with his suitcase on the ground.
I think that the man looking at the camera is Kenichi Hasegawa.
Jack Sheppard
This could happen today, only it would be families of Mexicans. or Muslims. Or who knows what. I doubt that we have learned a damned thing.