Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Here, and elderly couple enjoy an ice cream cone while . . .; Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Here, and elderly couple enjoy an ice cream cone while waiting for the trucks which will carry them to the railway station at Granada. Scenes at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad depot, Granada, Colorado, as 170 evacuees from the Amache Center entrain for their former homes in California, October 6, 1945. Four special coaches and one Pullman, reserved for the aged, invalid
Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Here, and elderly couple enjoy an ice cream cone while . . .; Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Here, and elderly couple enjoy an ice cream cone while waiting for the trucks which will carry them to the railway station at Granada. Scenes at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad depot, Granada, Colorado, as 170 evacuees from the Amache Center entrain for their former homes in California, October 6, 1945. Four special coaches and one Pullman, reserved for the aged, invalids and mothers with small infants, were provided for the returnees. In addition to center departees, passengers on the special included servicemen on furlough and other family members, already located, who returned to help relatives pack, then accompanied them back to California. Two more special trains are scheduled for the Amache Center, the last special coaches on October 15, when the remaining residents (about 85) will start westward for Sacramento and nearby points. This will mark the closing date of the Granada Project, the first of the War Relocation Authority centers to be closed.
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