Tanforan Mall

Here are some photos from a project I started last semester called the Historical Plaques Project. The idea of that project is to have people create, post, and document plaques on forgotten historical events, personal/familial histories, or whatever it is they want to commemorate.

In this particular example, I installed some plaques at the Tanforan Mall in San Bruno (right by the airport). The mall used to be a horse race track that was used as a staging area during the Japanese Internment. The Japanese Americans who were evacuated from SF were forced to live in the horse stalls for about 2 years before being taken to internment camps in the California and Utah desert. These plaques were installed at the mall to recall this history:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81566435@N00/sets/72157594427291288/

I also had some friends do the project as well:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81566435@N00/sets/72157594427286987/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81566435@N00/sets/72157594427286363/

If you would like to participate in this project by creating plaques in the Dogpatch, Japantown, or UN Plaza, or wherever, i would really appreciate it as I'm having trouble getting this project off the ground and its power is really in getting people engaged and interested enough to create plaques of their own.