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Hoy, William J. (April 1943). "Chinatown Devises Its Own Street Names". California Folklore Quarterly. 2 (2). Western States Folklore Society: 71–75. doi:10.2307/1495551. JSTOR 1495551. Miller, Greg (30 September 2013). "1885 map reveals vice in San Francisco's Chinatown and racism at City Hall". Wired
Washington Street in Chinatown with Transamerica Pyramid in the background.. Officially, Chinatown is located in downtown San Francisco, covers 24 square blocks, [10] and overlaps five postal ZIP codes (94108, 94133, 94111, 94102, and 94109).
Reviews of the guidebook have been positive, praising both its quality and contribution in the acknowledgement of San Francisco Chinatown. Jonah Raskin of the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “Choy’s book takes the curious and the puzzled in hand, shows them the key sights and the important landmarks, and opens the door to a vibrant past ...
The 8,000-square foot restaurant and bar presents all-you-can-eat hot pot and Korean barbecue dishes on conveyor belts. Yoshi Ramen began its soft opening Feb. 24 in The Marketplace at Granite Bay ...
Columbus Avenue is one of the major streets of San Francisco that runs diagonally through the North Beach and Chinatown areas of San Francisco, California, from Washington and Montgomery Streets by the Transamerica Pyramid to Beach Street near Fisherman's Wharf.
Jackson Street is a street in San Francisco, California, running through the Pacific Heights, Nob Hill, Chinatown and Jackson Square districts of the city. It runs between Pacific Avenue and Washington Street, beginning at Arguello Boulevard to the south of the Presidio Golf Course and ending at Drumm Street, to the west of Pier 3, near Sydney G. Walton Square.
In the early 20th century, the Siberia Club, at 25-27-29 Ross Alley, run by Yee Mee, "king of the Chinatown gamblers" and head of the Hop Sing Tong, [13] was one of the more notable gaming establishments. A raid on September 28, 1912, netted 46 Chinese, and another raid just days later arrested another 50 gamblers, despite a September 17 ...
Yank Sing is a dim sum with locations in the Rincon Center (opened in 1999) with a second location on Stevenson Street in the Financial District, San Francisco. [1]The original location open at Broadway and Powell Street, Chinatown, San Francisco in 1958 by Alice Chan. Vera Chan-Waller, her granddaughter, and husband Nathan Waller are the current owners.