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The Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, on the Condition of the Chinese Quarter of that City (1885) : 5 Emergence of tourism By the end of the 19th century, Chinatown's assumed reputation as a place of vice caused it to become a tourist destination, attracting numerous working-class white people, who sought the oriental mystery of Chinese culture and ...
The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858. It remains an actively inhabited place and continues ...
The Reemergence of an Inner City: The Pivot of Chinese Settlement in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-88247-457-X. LCCN 77-075492. Ma, L. Eva Armentrout (January 1, 2001). Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852–1995. (Asian Americans).
Chinatowns are enclaves of Chinese people outside of China. The first Chinatown in the United States was San Francisco's Chinatown in 1848, and many other Chinatowns were established in the 19th century by the Chinese diaspora on the West Coast. By 1875, Chinatowns had emerged in eastern cities such as New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh (see ...
Betty Yu. September 19, 2024 at 2:02 AM. SAN FRANCISCO - A one-of-a-kind legacy shop in San Francisco's Chinatown is on the verge of closing for good. Dragon Seed, located on Clay Street across ...
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The Tin How Temple (also spelled Tianhou Temple, simplified Chinese: 天后古庙; traditional Chinese: 天后古廟; pinyin: Tiānhòu gǔ miào) is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco 's Chinatown, and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. [1] It is dedicated to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, who ...
Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas. 5. Apollo (Storeship) Apollo (Storeship) May 16, 1991. (#91000561) NW corner of Sacramento and Battery Sts. 37°47′39″N 122°24′02″W / 37.7942°N 122.4005°W / 37.7942; -122.4005 (Apollo (Storeship)) Financial ...