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History of San Francisco’s Chinatown. The Chinese diaspora, which began in the 1800s, was so vast that virtually every major city in the world—from New York to London, Montreal and Lima—boasts...
The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, (Chinese : 唐人街; pinyin : tángrénjiē; Jyutping : tong4 jan4 gaai1) is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.
On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was devastated by a huge earthquake. As fires raged, Chinatown was leveled. It seemed that what the city and country wanted for fifty years, nature had ...
San Francisco's Chinatown has a long and rather notorious history: slave markets, tong wars, opium dens. See historical photos, and those same streets today.
San Francisco’s Old Chinatown. By Commissioner Jesse B. Cook Former Chief of Police Jesse Brown Cook (1860-1938) served the San Francisco Police Department from the late 1880s to the 1930s. He began as a beat officer, and then served as a sergeant of the “Chinatown Squad.”
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in San Francisco in 1848, beating out the famed ’49ers with months to spare. That makes Chinatown an older and more established San Francisco tradition than...
Much ink has been spilled on the history of Chinatown and Grant Avenue, billed as San Francisco’s oldest street, which runs north to south starting at Market Street and ending at Francisco...