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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
William Sawalich (born October 3, 2006) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 18 Toyota GR Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing. He is the 2023 and 2024 ARCA Menards Series East champion.
Chinn, Thomas W. Bridging the Pacific: San Francisco Chinatown and its People. Chinese Historical Society of America, 1989. ISBN 0-9614-1983-0; Choy, Philip P. San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture, City Lights, San Francisco, 2012. ISBN 978-0-87286-540-2
The Chinatown Handy Guide was one of the early Chinatown tour books published by a Chinese American author and recorded in the World Catalog. [1] It was published in four different geographic editions tailored to the largest established Chinatowns in America's biggest cities: [2] Chinatown Handy Guide New York, [3] Chinatown Handy Guide Chicago, [4] Chinatown Handy Guide San Francisco [5] and ...
The book was published in San Francisco in softcover by City Lights. Architectural photographs in the book were taken in the 1980s by Brian Choy for a case report to nominate Chinatown as a historic district. [2]: 12 An earlier, abridged version was published as a pamphlet by the Chinese Historical Society of America. [3]
San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture; San Francisco Chinese Hospital; San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade; 1900–1904 San Francisco plague; San Francisco riot of 1877; San Francisco Saints; Showgirl Magic Museum; Soo Yuen Benevolent Association; William Speer (minister) Statue of Sun Yat-sen (San Francisco)
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." [16]
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".