"Inside the air was a pestilence; it was heavy with disease and the emanations from many bodies. Anyone leaving this working mass, an...
Ancient Chinese Wisdom: an interview with Victor Wong
Artist, actor, journalist, Protestant minister in training Victor Wong, 1976. Love the budweiser plus t-shirt (3rd International San Franci...
Duke Kahanamoku: the Hawai'ian Olympic Hero in Los Angeles
The United States took a total of 41 gold medals including eight in the diving and swimming competitions, but the 1932 Games were fondly re...
Wing Kwong Tse's skylighted studio atop City Lights Bookstore
Despite a lack of formal training and not beginning his career as an artist until his thirties, Wing Kwong Tse became a successful SF pa...
Fong-Fong Bakery Fountain, San Francisco Chinatown 1941
We started the Fong-Fong Bakery-Fountain in 1935. We had a beautiful, long counter, the latest equipment, stainless steel, nice-looking b...
A Celebration of Nanao Sakaki with Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Gary Lawless, Malcolm Margolin and oh, Patricia Wakida as guest eMCee
Hi, Gary! Hi, Nanao! Hi, McRoskey Mattresses! This actually happened! On May 10, 2013. Two of the original poets from the Six Gallery ...
Stuck in the Shallow End: Swimming Pool and Segregation in L.A.
Sammy Lee, first Asian American gold medalist. As a twelve-year-old Angeleno in 1932, Korean American athlete "Sammy" Lee dre...
Got thrown a bunch of sugar
{painting by Christine Wu} In the first months of my working as curator of history at the Japanese American National Museum, I was introd...
All hail the serpentine Year of the Snake!
Ironically, 2011 we were a two snake household, and now we're down to none. 2012 was actually quite splendid- I dubbed it "My ye...
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