Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group from Dunster House recently visited the Hung Fi Lo restaurant in Chinatown. Honorable Fi Lo evidently was without the vigilance characteristic of his countrymen, for the group from Dunster House returned with one dozen pairs of chop sticks. Carefully concealed in inside coat pockets, the chop-sticks were smuggled into Dunster's salle a manger...
BOYLSTON HALL: Chinatown. Lots of transients gather here, and usually "bring their own." Chinese food unexcelled. Interesting monkey house on the roof...
Chinese Manager James Lum, fearful of what awaited him that night in Chinatown, announced: "I will leave town...
...Francisco's Pacific Street starts at the waterfront, plods westward through the northern warehouse district, climbs past Chinatown and the Italian quarter to Larkin Street. There it changes its name to Pacific Avenue, straightens its dress and saunters out to the Presidio as a genteel residential lane. The first few blocks of Pacific Street today are a dreary line of warehouses, garages, shabby hotels, lunchrooms. Formerly they were the centre of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, for nearly 70 years the most vicious and depraved spot in the U. S. The amazing scenes and incredible characters...
...Angeles, later in San Francisco, she acquired great skill in treating the plaints current in the cinema and the U. S. Navy. She still has a practice in Hollywood, makes frequent trips by plane from San Francisco where she keeps an elaborate office in the middle of Chinatown. Greta Garbo and Anna May Wong are among Margie Chung's best friends...