Chinatown

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Chinatown

 

The green and ochre gate, known as the Gateway to Chinatown, opened in 1970.

San Francisco's Chinatown begins at the dragon-crested gate at Grant Avenue and Bush Street,
 a gift from the Republic of China in 1969.

San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the largest Chinese communities outside Asia.
Chinatown's many restaurants, food markets, and souvenir stores attract hordes of tourists.

 

up the hill into Chinatown

 San Francisco’s oldest street—Grant Avenue—
runs eight blocks through the center of America’s ethnic capital to over 1.5 million people of Chinese descent.

 

1848
First Chinese immigrants - two men and one women - arrive in San Francisco on the American brig, Eagle

 

Saint Mary's Cathedral
in Chinatown


The first building erected as a cathedral in California, Old St. Mary's served the archdiocese of San Francisco in that capacity from 1854 to 1891. Once the city's most prominent building, much of its stone work was quarried and cut in China and its brick brought "around the Horn" in sailing ships.

 

restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

poultry shop

 

beer of China

 

transition from Chinatown to traditional Italian neighborhood

 

along Columbus Avenue

 

 

back on Grant Avenue

 

looking toward telegraph hill and the Coit tower 


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