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The Little Shamrock is a historic bar in the Inner Sunset district in San Francisco, California Established in 1893, it is considered the city's second-oldest bar after The Saloon in North Beach , which opened in 1861.
China Live was founded by George and Cindy Chen. George Chen is an entrepreneur, formerly involved in several local landmark restaurants such as Betelnut, Xanadu, and Shanghai 1930, as an effort to "educate" San Francisco on "what real Chinese cuisine is". [1]
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]
Three Heads Six Arms was completed in 2008 and kept initially at Zhang Huan's studio near Shanghai, China. [5] The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) contacted Zhang in 2009 [5] to enquire if he would be willing to loan the piece to San Francisco in honor of the 30-year sister city relationship between Shanghai and San Francisco, which was to be celebrated during 2010.
Samuel Dickson, "Shanghai Kelly", Tales of San Francisco Stanford: University Press, 1957. Bill Pickelhaupt, "Shanghaied in San Francisco," San Francisco: Flyblister Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9647312-2-3 "Mission to Seafarers Timeline Alongside World Events". Mission to Seafarers. Archived from the original on September 16, 2007
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A man who carried out a "vicious and violent attack" during riots has been jailed for almost three years. Ameer Khalile, 25, stamped on his victim's head during public disorder that broke out in ...
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels is a 2018 memoir by Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao. The memoir is centered around Sun Chao's childhood in 1930s and ’40s Shanghai and her ancestors, going back to the mid-19th century. The idea for the book was sparked by their 2008 visit to their family home. [1]