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San Francisco Chinatown's annual Autumn Moon Festival celebrates seasonal change and the opportunity to give thanks to a bountiful summer harvest. The Moon Festival is popularly celebrated throughout China and surrounding countries each year, with local bazaars, entertainment, and mooncakes, a pastry filled with sweet bean paste and egg. The ...
The 1953 parade was led by Grand Marshall Joe Wong, a blind Korean war veteran, featuring the Miss Chinatown festival queen and of course the dragon; [77]: 29 that year marked the first modern San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival [35] intended for the wider public. A crowd of 140,000 watched the parade. [45]
Autumn Moon Festival in San Francisco Chinatown, 2007. As late as 2014, the Mid-Autumn Festival generally went unnoticed outside of Asian supermarkets and food stores, [71] but it has gained popularity since then in areas with significant ethnic Chinese overseas populations, such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. [72]
The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节, zhōng qiū jié) falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, on a night with a full moon. This year, it falls on September 17, 2024.
Frank Wong (born September 22, 1932) is a San Francisco, California artist who creates miniature dioramas that depict the San Francisco Chinatown of Wong's youth during the 1930s and 1940s. [1] His works include his grandmother's kitchen, the family's living room at Christmas, an herb shop, Chinese laundry , shoeshine stand, and life in a ...
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (or CCC) (simplified Chinese: 旧金山中华文化中心; traditional Chinese: 舊金山中華文化中心; pinyin: Jiùjīnshān Zhōnghuá Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; Jyutping: Gau 6 gam 1 saan 1 Zung 1 waa 4 Man 4 faa 3 Zung 1 sam 1) is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture ...
In 1909, the San Francisco Call rallied voters for William Henry Crocker as Mayor over P. H. McCarthy, who was predicted to be too tolerant of Chinatown, as "Mar Len Geet's brothel in Ross alley is a hotbed of P. H. McCarthy enthusiasm."
In 2005, a private effort was proposed to construct a second gate for the northern entrance to Chinatown, at Broadway and Grant. Wilma Pang is credited for the idea of a second gate, inspired by temporary gateways across Commercial for the annual Mid-Autumn Festival starting in 2001. [29]