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Topic: Chinatown, San Francisco, California


  
  San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California and the fourteenth-largest in the United States, with a 2005 population of 739,426.
San Francisco is renowned for its months-long episodes of fog, steep rolling hills, the eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, and its peninsular location surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco is located on the west coast of the U.S. at the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco,_California   (6898 words)

  
 SAN FRANCISCO - Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition 1900-11
San Francisco's permanence as one of the greatest ports of the country is assured by its magnificent position, the wealth of its " back country," and its command of trans-Pacific and trans-continental commercial routes.
Chinatown, at the foot of Nob Hill, covers some twelve city blocks, and with its temples, rich bazaars, strange life and show of picturesque colours and customs, it is to strangers one of the most interesting portions of the city.
The damage by earthquake to buildings in San Francisco was, however, small in comparison to that wrougbt by the fire which began soon after the principal shock on the morning of the 18th.
www.zpub.com /sf/history/eb-sf.html   (5720 words)

  
 San Francisco Chinatown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Commercial portrait photographer recognized for her fl and white prints and her work in San Francisco's Chinatown.
...Anti-Chinese ordinances are passed in San Francisco to curtail their housing and employment.....History of San Francisco Chinatown - The largest chinatown outside of Asia.
KQED's television series exploring the history of San Francisco: includes the Castro, Chinatown, Fillmore, and Mission neighborhoods.
www.readcalifornia.org /san-francisco-chinatown.html   (156 words)

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