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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 ...
Tin How Temple. The Tin How Temple (also spelled Tianhou Temple, simplified Chinese : 天后古庙; traditional Chinese : 天后古廟; pinyin : Tiānhòu gǔ miào) is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco 's Chinatown, and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. [ 1 ] It is dedicated to the Chinese ...
The Golden Dragon massacre[1] was a gang -related mass shooting that took place on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, United States. The five perpetrators, members of the Joe Boys, a Chinese youth gang, were attempting to kill leaders of the Wah Ching, a rival ...
The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority Irish population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877. The ethnic violence which swept Chinatown resulted in four deaths and the destruction of more than $100,000 worth of property ...
Capacity. 410, formerly 500+. Opened. 1925. (1925) Website. www.greatstartheater.org. The Great Star Theater, formerly known as Great China Theater, is a 410-seat [1] theater located at 636 Jackson Street in San Francisco's Chinatown. It was built in 1925 for the Chinese opera and is the last Chinese theater in any Chinatown in the United States.
Philip P. Choy (December 17, 1926 – March 16, 2017) [1] was an architect and historian of Chinese American studies. He is the author of San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture (2012), Canton Footprints: Sacramento’s Chinese Legacy (2007), and The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese (1994).
224. ISBN. 978-0-87286-540-2. San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture is a book by Philip Choy, first published in 2012.
Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, is one of the oldest streets in the city's Chinatown district. It runs in a north–south direction starting at Market Street in the heart of downtown and dead-ending past Francisco Street in the North Beach district. It resumes at North Point Street and stretches one block to The Embarcadero and the ...