Lange, Dorothea San Bruno, California. Meal times are the big events of the day within an assembly center. They, themselves, individually wash their own dishes after each meal, since dish washing facilities in the mess halls prove inadequate. Most of the residents prefer this second shift because they sometimes get second helpings, but the groups are rotated each week. There are eighteen mess halls in camp which, together, accommodate 8,000 persons three times each day.
All food is prepared and served by evacuees.
Lange, Dorothea San Bruno, California. All maintenance work, repair and construction is done by volunteer workers of Japanese ancestry. This gang of boys and young men are digging a drainage tank along the front of one of the barracks. Lange, Dorothea San Bruno, California. A general election for five members of the Tanforan Assembly Center Advisory Council is being held on this day.