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The Wave Organ Audio recording of the Wave Organ in September 2011. The Wave Organ is a sculpture located in San Francisco, California.It was constructed on the shore of San Francisco Bay in May 1986 by the Exploratorium, [1] and more specifically, by installation artist and the Exploratorium artist-in-residence Peter Richards, who conceived and designed the organ, working with stonemason ...
The park was home to the XFL's San Francisco Demons in 2001, was the home of the East-West Shrine Game (until 2006), and was the former home stadium of the California Redwoods of the UFL in 2009. From 2002 to 2013, it was also home to college football's Redbox Bowl when the game was known as the San Francisco Bowl, Emerald Bowl, and Fight ...
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 Harvest Gypsies, by John Steinbeck, is a series of feature-story articles written on commission for The San Francisco News about the lives and times of migrant workers in California's Central Valley. [1] Published daily from October 5 to 12, 1936, Steinbeck explores and explains the hardships and triumphs of American migrant workers during ...
Dragon Gate. / 37.7907; -122.4056. The Dragon Gate ("Chinatown Gate" on some maps) is a south-facing gate at the intersection of Bush Street and Grant Avenue, marking a southern entrance to San Francisco 's Chinatown, in the U.S. state of California. Built in 1969 as a gift from the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the style of a traditional ...
The Imperial Tea Court is a privately owned American company that provides fine teas from China, India, Taiwan and Japan, to the U.S. wholesale and retail markets. The Imperial Tea Court was the first authentic tearoom in San Francisco's Chinatown, [1] [2] [3] serving black tea, green tea, white tea, yellow tea, jasmine tea and puerh tea. [4]
Young China Club warning to American visitors against buying Japanese goods in San Francisco's Chinatown circa 1940. Anti-Japanese racism and fear of the Yellow Peril had become increasingly xenophobic in California after the Japanese victory over the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese War. On October 11, 1906, the San Francisco, California ...
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