Cantonese bazaar during Chinese New Year at the Grant Avenue, San Francisco, circa 1914. Names of shops are in Cantonese and there are four daily newspapers printed in the Cantonese language at that time, as there were already a significant number of Cantonese people who had been there for generations.
English: Identifier: chamberofcommerc01todd Title: The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Subjects: Publisher: San Francisco, San Francisco Chamber of commerce under the direction of the Publicity committee Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: f these bazaars are not, usually, the names oftheir proprietors, but expressions of poetic sentiment or invo-cations of fortune. In the most modest of them you may findthe oriental treasure bit that makes the strongest appeal toyou and at the smallest price. The Chinese attendants areuniformly courteous, and whether you buy or not you arewelcome to admire and enjoy the wonder-works in silver,bronze, enamel, lacquer, teak, rosewood, porcelain, carven ivoryand sumptuously embroidered silks. Along this street are some good Chinese restaurants, withrecessed balconies where huge globular lanterns bob in the 11 Handboof( fcr San Francisco breeze, and with tea gardens on the top floors, where one candine upon dishes of the toothsome Chinese cuisine. Preservesand tea are served at modest rates; and, on a days notice,almost any of these places will arrange dinners at prices rang-ing from $2 to $20 a cover, that will include such delicaciesas birds nest soup, snow fungus, shark fins, chop suey, Text Appearing After Image: THE NEW YEAR LIIJKS. chow yuk, squab, bamboo shoots, almond pudding; chicken,pork and noodles served in the various oriental modes, ac-companied by plum and pear wines, and beginning, always,with dessert. Chinese orchestras can be engaged to accom-pany the feast. Live fish are imported in tanks from China for banquetshere. At the north corner of Clay street is one of the deadwallsused as a bulletin board. Here advertisements and notices ofall sorts, in black Chinese characters on the universal red A Walk in Chinatorvn 73 ground, are posted, and here eager knots of men can be seengleaning the news of the day. No people is more keen fornews and the little community supports four daily papers printedin the Cantonese dialect. Butcher shops, grocery and drug stores along this medieval,looking street present curious sights—dried roots and herbs,jars of sea-horse skeletons, dejected ducks flattened out andvarnished, and hung up to tempt the epicure, gobbets of porkfrom which the butcher ha Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.