The Panama Hotel plays a large part in a nice book from 2009, "Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford. True that when the building was sold after being vacant for a long time, the basement was found to be full of possessions that had to be left behind when the community was shipped to the camps.

Charles, please Police Beat me.

There was an interment camp in Puyallup, as well. A friend's parents met there. Another friend's family was sent there, then to Idaho, while his father was off fighting for the US in the damned Army, and had NO idea his family had been shipped off. He came home to a boarded-up farm, and no one knowing where his family was. An excellent book that I have loved from childhood is, "Nisei Daughter" by Monica Sone, and is about her childhood growing up on 'skid row' at her family's hotel in Seattle...also left behind when they were sent to camps. The US is good at that...reservations, anyone?