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Kearny Street Workshop was founded as an artists' collective in 1972 in the International Hotel (I-Hotel) on San Francisco's Kearny Street.The founders Jim Dong, Lora Joh Foo, and Mike Chin and other early leaders were involved in the Asian American movement, a Civil Rights Movement-inspired period of organizational and community building in the 1970s.
Landmarks along Kearny Street include Lotta's Fountain at Market Street, where 1906 earthquake commemorations are held; One Montgomery Tower (an office building located on Kearny and Post streets, despite the name); 555 California Street, the city's fourth tallest skyscraper; the location of the old Hall of Justice at Kearny and Clay Streets now occupied by the Hilton San Francisco Financial ...
In San Francisco, CPA advocates for tenants' and workers' rights, youth and student political engagement, and civic engagement. [ 1 ] From its founding, the Chinese Progressive Association has been a notable political influence in the local Chinese American community.
Between 1943 and 1949, Canuto Salaver, Clem Mateo and Mike Zacarias were the original co-founders and co-owners of the famed Bataan Lunch restaurant at 836 Kearny Street, and also years later the Bataan Pool Parlor at 840 Kearny Street. Bataan Lunch was originally located at 643 Kearny St., the site of Jessie’s Lunch where Clem worked as a cook.
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (or CCC) (simplified Chinese: 旧金山中华文化中心; traditional Chinese: 舊金山中華文化中心; pinyin: Jiùjīnshān Zhōnghuá Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; Jyutping: Gau 6 gam 1 saan 1 Zung 1 waa 4 Man 4 faa 3 Zung 1 sam 1) is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture ...
In collaboration with the SF AIDS Foundation, SFDPH funds a ten-member clean up team that operates 12 hours a day, 7 days a week to pick up used syringes and needles off the streets, in addition to collaborating with Homeless Youth Alliance, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco Drug User's Union, and Glide Harm Reduction Services in an effort to ...
The Joe Boys, or JBS (also known as Chung Ching Yee, Chinese: 忠精義), was a Chinese American youth gang founded in the 1960s in San Francisco's Chinatown. The Joe Boys were originally known as Joe Fong Boys, after its founder Joe Fong, a former member of the Wah Ching. Most of their members were born in Hong Kong or were of Hong Kongese ...
Huckleberry House was the first runaway shelter for youth in the US, [4] founded during the Summer of Love on June 18, 1967, by several churches and the San Francisco Foundation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Huckleberry House is operated by Huckleberry Youth Programs and is located at 1292 Page St. in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.