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San Francisco Chinatown
Daniel Hong, Robert Imutan, Christian Mercolini
ENGL 025
May 3, 2016
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Interest in Chinatown
• Want to explore immigration and race
• Identify the significance of certain landmarks of San Francisco
• Race
• Class
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Time Line
Year Event
1848 First Chinese immigrants arrive at San Francisco
1859 “Chinese School” created
1870 California’s law against Chinese, Japanese
1870 Chinese barred from housing and employment
1880 Treaty to limit Chinese immigration
1882 Ban of Chinese immigration and citizenship
1885 “Chinese School” renamed to “Oriental School”
(Chow)
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Year Event
1900 Tung Wah Dispensary opens in Chinatown
1902 Chinese Exclusion Act extends 10 years
1904 Chinese Exclusion Act → ∞
1906 True Sunshine Episcopal created
1908 Chinese Chamber of Commerce formed.
1910 Angel Island opens
Thousands of Chinese immigrants detained
1911 YMCA established
1916 YWCA established
1921 Pubic Library opens
(Chow)
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Year Event
1924 “Oriental School” renamed to Commodore Stockton School
Students not allowed to speak Chinese
1925 Nam Kue School built
1940 English-Language newspaper
Tung Wah Dispensary relocated and renamed Chinese Hospital
1943 Chinese Exclusion Act gets repealed
(Chow)
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Building Chinatown
• Portsmouth Square
• Earthquake and Fire
• Architecture
• Angel Island
• Colt Tower
• Golden Gate Bridge
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Portsmouth Square
• Grew from frontier to a city after discovery of gold
• Served as cow pen, surrounded by:
• Tents, adobe huts
• Brick and stone buildings
• Hotels, shops, gambling places
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Portsmouth Square
• Chinese strategically located laundries, restaurants, shops
• Built their business near center of city
• Branched out to
• Dupont - “Grant” today
• Kearny Streets
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Portsmouth Square
• “Little Canton”
• 33 retail stores
• 15 pharmacies / herbal stores
• 5 restaurants
• “Chinatown” in 1853 by Press
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Portsmouth Square
Year Stage
1851 First Chinese hand laundry on corner of
Washington Dupont Streets
1870 2000 Chinese laundries in trade
1880 Grew to 7500 laundries
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Portsmouth Square
• Merchants provided fresh fruits and vegetables
• San Francisco becomes recreation center
• Chinese made festive activities
• Theater building imported from China
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Portsmouth Square
Figure 1: Portsmouth Square
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Earthquake and Fire
• April 08, 1906
• Leveled Chinatown
• Immigration records destroyed →
• Claim citizenship
• Send children and families
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Earthquake and Fire
Figure 2: San Francisco 1906 Earthquake
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Earthquake and Fire
• Look Tin Eli planned to rebuild Chinatown away from
Financial District
• Designed Chinatown to be more “Oriental”
(”The Story of Chinatown”)
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Angel Island (1775)
• Exclusion caused from disease,
• Quarantine and immigration restrictions
• People had to enter the quarantine station
• Thousands of Chinese inscriptions in the immigration barracks
• Was used in the Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, and
WWII
(Bashford, et al)
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Angel Island (1775)
• Based on Ellis Island of New York
• Staff detained, interviewed, and screened the immigrants
Figure 3: Angel Island Barracks
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Angel Island (1775)
• Most of the detainees in the two-story barracks were Chinese,
along with Japanese
• Used for the US Army in 1940 for PoWs and enemy aliens
• Military left on 1962, Angel Island became state park
• Old quarantine buildings demolished in 1957, island was
supposed to be demolished in 1970 but wasn’t
• Now a tourist attraction
(Bashford, et al)
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Coit Tower (1933)
Figure 4: Coit Tower
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Coit Tower (1933)
• Located in Telegraph Hill
• Monument to the city’s firefighters, in honor of Lillie
Hitchcock Coit who wanted to “add beauty to the city she
has always loved;” matron saint of the city’s firefighters
• Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to support artists during the
Great Depression
• Tower took 5 years to build by architect Arthur Brown Jr
(”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San
Francisco’s History”)
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Coit Tower (1933)
• Added to the U.S. Register of Historic Places in 2008
• 210-foot tall tower, gives 360 degree view of the entire city at
top
• Murals funded by federal government via Public Works Art
Project
• Depicts life in California and Bay Area during Great
Depression
(”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San
Francisco’s History”)
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Coit Tower (1933)
Figure 5: Murals at Coit Tower
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Coit Tower (1933)
Murals
• Depicted city life, agriculture, and industry settings
• Themes of labor marches, poor families and rich families
• Controversial aspect: section depicting a traffic accident,
armed robbery, and left-wing newspaper
• Includes labor relations in SF during early 1930s
• Critics wanted to order the murals to be destroyed due to its
radical content
(”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San
Francisco’s History”)
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Coit Tower (1933)
• Artists protested to keep their works uncensored
• Only one painting was remade (by Clifford Wight), the others
were untouched
• San Francisco Arts Commission performs maintenance to the
murals; if a mural were damaged, the commission works with
the conservators to restore that part of a piece
(”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San
Francisco’s History”)
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Coit Tower (1933)
Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural
Figure 6: Bernard’s mural contribution, Library
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Colt Tower (1933)
Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural
• Mural depicts the main reading room in a library
• Sparked controversy on public imagery,
• Hammer and sickle symbol
• Edited mural appeared in newspaper →
• Unemployed longshoremen were on strike
• Killed two union members on July 5, 1934
(Boone)
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Coit Tower (1933)
Figure 7: Hammer and Sickle Symbol
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Colt Tower (1933)
Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural
• Zakheim was influenced by Communism
• Right side of his mural depicted his friend and fellow muralist,
John Langley Howard, reaching for Das Kapital, one of Karl
Marx’s signature works
• Included Jewish literature, Jewish tradition, and Jewish
contribution to the United States
• Message was to view history from a pluralistic perspective
(Boone)
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Colt Tower (1933)
Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural
• In his earlier years, Zakheim joined the Russian Revolution,
developing a concern for the rights of workers
• Led the Yiddish Movement in SF
• Strived to preserve the Jewish people’s identity as an
unassimilated minority group
• Controversy - Zahkeim was asked twice to remove Das Kapital
from his mural due to its socialist ideals, but refused
(Boone)
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Coit Tower (1933)
Specific Case: Clifford Wight
• Wight’s mural received the most censure out of any of the
Coit Tower pieces
• On opposite sides of a steel window, two tall figures, a
steelworker and a surveyor, were found
• Junius Cravens remembers what the uncensored piece looked
like
(”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
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Colt Tower(1933)
Specific Case: Clifford Wight
• Central window - bridge with the Blue Eagle of NRA at the
center
• Right of eagle: ”In God We Trust” was written to symbolize
Capitalism
• Left of eagle: circle containing the Soviet Hammer and Sickle
symbol, along with the words, “Workers of the World, Unite,”
symbolizing Communism
(”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
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Colt Tower(1933)
Specific Case: Clifford Wight
• A reporter from the Hearst Press managed to take a photo of
the Hammer and Sickle, along with a part of Zakheim’s
Library piece
• Doctored image placing the Hammer and Sickle in Library was
described by the newspaper articles to be Wight’s mural
(”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
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Colt Tower(1933)
Specific Case: Clifford Wight
Figure 8: Clifford Wight’s controversial painting
Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources
Colt Tower(1933)
Specific Case: Clifford Wight
• Doctored image appeared in the news during “Bloody
Thursday,” on July 5th, 1934
• Wight refused to edit his mural
• Depicted Social Change
• Capitalism
• Communism
• The New Deal
(”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
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Colt Tower(1933)
Specific Case: Clifford Wight
• Doesn’t intend for the Communist element of his piece to be
propaganda
• Just an ideal
• Ultimately obliterated
• 4 mural contributions which survived the controversy
• Steelworker
• Surveyor
• Farmer
• Cowboy
(”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
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Golden Gate Bridge
• Intended to be a bridge across Golden Gate Strait
• Charles Crocker wanted a bridge there on 1872; James H.
Wilkins, a structural engineer, recruited SF City Engineer
Michael M. O’Shaughnessy on 1916
• O’Shaughnessy discussed this bridge with other engineers on
the costs and feasibility of this bridge on August 1919
• Thought to require $100 million for construction
(”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait”)
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Golden Gate Bridge
• Joseph Baermann Strauss estimated $25 - $30 million
• Sent his initial design sketch for the bridge on June 28, 1921
• $17 million to build
Figure 9: D
ecember 1922 - O’Shaughnessy made design public
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Golden Gate Bridge
• Reasons for building the bridge
• Traffic was growing at the ferries
• Population centers were growing
Figure 10: Traffic by the ferries
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Golden Gate Bridge
• Bridge design changed from a cantilever-suspension hybrid
into a pure suspension bridge design during the time between
Leon S. Moisseiff’s report on November 1925 and the
Advisory Board of Engineers’ first meeting on August 27, 1929
• Charles A. Ellis, hired by Strauss on 1921, refined the design
of the bridge on March 1, 1930
• Was fired by Strauss for unknown reasons, and received no
credit despite his efforts
(”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait”)
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Golden Gate Bridge
• January 5, 1933 - construction officially begun
• Ceremony began on February 26, 1933 to celebrate the
construction of the bridge
• Bridge open to traffic on May 28, 1937
(”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait”)
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Golden Gate Bridge
Figure 11: Golden Gate Bridge
Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources
Chinatown today
• Defined by the history and institutions of its people
• Chinese styled buildings line up streets
• Give neighborhood character and culture affiliation
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Chinatown Today
Figure 12: The neighborhood today has developed cultural autonomy.
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Chinatown Today
• Neighborhood sustains:
• Children’s orchestra
• Cultural centers
• Artists
• Music
• Dance
• Chinese Historical Society of America
Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources
Chinatown Today
Ugly side of Chinatown
• Tenement buildings crowded with elderly and new immigrants
• Problem due to:
• Discrimination and exclusion
• Unemployment
• Healthcare
• Poor housing
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Chinatown Today
Figure 13: Tenements in Chinatown
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Chinatown Today
Culture
• Mid-Autumn Festival
• Celebrates season changes
• Local bazaars
• Entertainment
• Mooncakes
• Chinese Culture Center
• Promotes exhibitions of Chinese life in the U.S.
• Organizes tours of the areas
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Chinatown Today
Culture
• Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
• Parent organization of the many local Chinese family and
regional associations in Chinatown
• Chinatown Community Development Center
• Sought to improve tenant problems with sub-standard housing,
and many empowerment programs
Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources
Chinatown Today
Triad violence
• Shooting spree of Golden Dragon Restaurant
• 5 people killed
• 11 people injured
• Triad violence continued, but less serious
Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources
Works Cited
Alison Bashford, Peter Hobbins, Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick.
Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and
North Head, Sydney:Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 52,
April 2016, Pages 16-25, ISSN 0305-7488.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.12.003.
〈http://www.sciencedirect.com 〉.
”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San
Francisco’s History.” Journal Of Property Management 76.4
(2011): 20-21. Business Source Complete. Web. 19 Apr. 2016.
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Works Cited
Boone, M. Elizabeth. ””Something of His Own Soil”: Jewish
History, Mural Painting, and Bernard Zakheim in San Francisco
(1).” American Jewish History 90.2 (2002): 123. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. 〈http://go.galegroup.com 〉.
Chow, Michelle. ”History of San Francisco Chinatown.” San
Francisco Chinatown. Tiger Business Development Inc, 2012.
Web. 19 Apr. 2016. 〈http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com 〉.
”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait,” “Golden
Gate Bridge Design,” and “Ground Breaking Ceremony.” Golden
Gate Bridge. Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation
District, 2006. Web. 26 Apr. 2016. 〈http://goldengatebridge.org
〉.
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Works Cited
Jewett, Masha Zakheim. ”FoundSF.” Coit Tower Politics -. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. 〈http://foundsf.org〉.
”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower.” San Francisco Mural
Arts. SF Mural Arts, 2010. Web. 26 Apr. 2016.
〈http://www.sfmuralarts.com〉. ”The Story of Chinatown.” PBS.
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Group 4 Presentation ENGL 025

  • 1. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources San Francisco Chinatown Daniel Hong, Robert Imutan, Christian Mercolini ENGL 025 May 3, 2016
  • 2. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Interest in Chinatown • Want to explore immigration and race • Identify the significance of certain landmarks of San Francisco • Race • Class
  • 3. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Time Line Year Event 1848 First Chinese immigrants arrive at San Francisco 1859 “Chinese School” created 1870 California’s law against Chinese, Japanese 1870 Chinese barred from housing and employment 1880 Treaty to limit Chinese immigration 1882 Ban of Chinese immigration and citizenship 1885 “Chinese School” renamed to “Oriental School” (Chow)
  • 4. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Year Event 1900 Tung Wah Dispensary opens in Chinatown 1902 Chinese Exclusion Act extends 10 years 1904 Chinese Exclusion Act → ∞ 1906 True Sunshine Episcopal created 1908 Chinese Chamber of Commerce formed. 1910 Angel Island opens Thousands of Chinese immigrants detained 1911 YMCA established 1916 YWCA established 1921 Pubic Library opens (Chow)
  • 5. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Year Event 1924 “Oriental School” renamed to Commodore Stockton School Students not allowed to speak Chinese 1925 Nam Kue School built 1940 English-Language newspaper Tung Wah Dispensary relocated and renamed Chinese Hospital 1943 Chinese Exclusion Act gets repealed (Chow)
  • 6. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Building Chinatown • Portsmouth Square • Earthquake and Fire • Architecture • Angel Island • Colt Tower • Golden Gate Bridge
  • 7. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Portsmouth Square • Grew from frontier to a city after discovery of gold • Served as cow pen, surrounded by: • Tents, adobe huts • Brick and stone buildings • Hotels, shops, gambling places (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 8. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Portsmouth Square • Chinese strategically located laundries, restaurants, shops • Built their business near center of city • Branched out to • Dupont - “Grant” today • Kearny Streets (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 9. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Portsmouth Square • “Little Canton” • 33 retail stores • 15 pharmacies / herbal stores • 5 restaurants • “Chinatown” in 1853 by Press (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 10. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Portsmouth Square Year Stage 1851 First Chinese hand laundry on corner of Washington Dupont Streets 1870 2000 Chinese laundries in trade 1880 Grew to 7500 laundries (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 11. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Portsmouth Square • Merchants provided fresh fruits and vegetables • San Francisco becomes recreation center • Chinese made festive activities • Theater building imported from China (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 12. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Portsmouth Square Figure 1: Portsmouth Square
  • 13. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Earthquake and Fire • April 08, 1906 • Leveled Chinatown • Immigration records destroyed → • Claim citizenship • Send children and families (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 14. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Earthquake and Fire Figure 2: San Francisco 1906 Earthquake
  • 15. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Earthquake and Fire • Look Tin Eli planned to rebuild Chinatown away from Financial District • Designed Chinatown to be more “Oriental” (”The Story of Chinatown”)
  • 16. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Angel Island (1775) • Exclusion caused from disease, • Quarantine and immigration restrictions • People had to enter the quarantine station • Thousands of Chinese inscriptions in the immigration barracks • Was used in the Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, and WWII (Bashford, et al)
  • 17. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Angel Island (1775) • Based on Ellis Island of New York • Staff detained, interviewed, and screened the immigrants Figure 3: Angel Island Barracks
  • 18. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Angel Island (1775) • Most of the detainees in the two-story barracks were Chinese, along with Japanese • Used for the US Army in 1940 for PoWs and enemy aliens • Military left on 1962, Angel Island became state park • Old quarantine buildings demolished in 1957, island was supposed to be demolished in 1970 but wasn’t • Now a tourist attraction (Bashford, et al)
  • 19. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) Figure 4: Coit Tower
  • 20. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) • Located in Telegraph Hill • Monument to the city’s firefighters, in honor of Lillie Hitchcock Coit who wanted to “add beauty to the city she has always loved;” matron saint of the city’s firefighters • Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to support artists during the Great Depression • Tower took 5 years to build by architect Arthur Brown Jr (”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San Francisco’s History”)
  • 21. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) • Added to the U.S. Register of Historic Places in 2008 • 210-foot tall tower, gives 360 degree view of the entire city at top • Murals funded by federal government via Public Works Art Project • Depicts life in California and Bay Area during Great Depression (”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San Francisco’s History”)
  • 22. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) Figure 5: Murals at Coit Tower
  • 23. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) Murals • Depicted city life, agriculture, and industry settings • Themes of labor marches, poor families and rich families • Controversial aspect: section depicting a traffic accident, armed robbery, and left-wing newspaper • Includes labor relations in SF during early 1930s • Critics wanted to order the murals to be destroyed due to its radical content (”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San Francisco’s History”)
  • 24. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) • Artists protested to keep their works uncensored • Only one painting was remade (by Clifford Wight), the others were untouched • San Francisco Arts Commission performs maintenance to the murals; if a mural were damaged, the commission works with the conservators to restore that part of a piece (”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San Francisco’s History”)
  • 25. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural Figure 6: Bernard’s mural contribution, Library
  • 26. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower (1933) Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural • Mural depicts the main reading room in a library • Sparked controversy on public imagery, • Hammer and sickle symbol • Edited mural appeared in newspaper → • Unemployed longshoremen were on strike • Killed two union members on July 5, 1934 (Boone)
  • 27. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) Figure 7: Hammer and Sickle Symbol
  • 28. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower (1933) Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural • Zakheim was influenced by Communism • Right side of his mural depicted his friend and fellow muralist, John Langley Howard, reaching for Das Kapital, one of Karl Marx’s signature works • Included Jewish literature, Jewish tradition, and Jewish contribution to the United States • Message was to view history from a pluralistic perspective (Boone)
  • 29. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower (1933) Specific Case: Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural • In his earlier years, Zakheim joined the Russian Revolution, developing a concern for the rights of workers • Led the Yiddish Movement in SF • Strived to preserve the Jewish people’s identity as an unassimilated minority group • Controversy - Zahkeim was asked twice to remove Das Kapital from his mural due to its socialist ideals, but refused (Boone)
  • 30. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Coit Tower (1933) Specific Case: Clifford Wight • Wight’s mural received the most censure out of any of the Coit Tower pieces • On opposite sides of a steel window, two tall figures, a steelworker and a surveyor, were found • Junius Cravens remembers what the uncensored piece looked like (”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
  • 31. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower(1933) Specific Case: Clifford Wight • Central window - bridge with the Blue Eagle of NRA at the center • Right of eagle: ”In God We Trust” was written to symbolize Capitalism • Left of eagle: circle containing the Soviet Hammer and Sickle symbol, along with the words, “Workers of the World, Unite,” symbolizing Communism (”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
  • 32. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower(1933) Specific Case: Clifford Wight • A reporter from the Hearst Press managed to take a photo of the Hammer and Sickle, along with a part of Zakheim’s Library piece • Doctored image placing the Hammer and Sickle in Library was described by the newspaper articles to be Wight’s mural (”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
  • 33. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower(1933) Specific Case: Clifford Wight Figure 8: Clifford Wight’s controversial painting
  • 34. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower(1933) Specific Case: Clifford Wight • Doctored image appeared in the news during “Bloody Thursday,” on July 5th, 1934 • Wight refused to edit his mural • Depicted Social Change • Capitalism • Communism • The New Deal (”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
  • 35. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Colt Tower(1933) Specific Case: Clifford Wight • Doesn’t intend for the Communist element of his piece to be propaganda • Just an ideal • Ultimately obliterated • 4 mural contributions which survived the controversy • Steelworker • Surveyor • Farmer • Cowboy (”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower”)
  • 36. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Golden Gate Bridge • Intended to be a bridge across Golden Gate Strait • Charles Crocker wanted a bridge there on 1872; James H. Wilkins, a structural engineer, recruited SF City Engineer Michael M. O’Shaughnessy on 1916 • O’Shaughnessy discussed this bridge with other engineers on the costs and feasibility of this bridge on August 1919 • Thought to require $100 million for construction (”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait”)
  • 37. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Golden Gate Bridge • Joseph Baermann Strauss estimated $25 - $30 million • Sent his initial design sketch for the bridge on June 28, 1921 • $17 million to build Figure 9: D ecember 1922 - O’Shaughnessy made design public
  • 38. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Golden Gate Bridge • Reasons for building the bridge • Traffic was growing at the ferries • Population centers were growing Figure 10: Traffic by the ferries
  • 39. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Golden Gate Bridge • Bridge design changed from a cantilever-suspension hybrid into a pure suspension bridge design during the time between Leon S. Moisseiff’s report on November 1925 and the Advisory Board of Engineers’ first meeting on August 27, 1929 • Charles A. Ellis, hired by Strauss on 1921, refined the design of the bridge on March 1, 1930 • Was fired by Strauss for unknown reasons, and received no credit despite his efforts (”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait”)
  • 40. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Golden Gate Bridge • January 5, 1933 - construction officially begun • Ceremony began on February 26, 1933 to celebrate the construction of the bridge • Bridge open to traffic on May 28, 1937 (”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait”)
  • 41. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Golden Gate Bridge Figure 11: Golden Gate Bridge
  • 42. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown today • Defined by the history and institutions of its people • Chinese styled buildings line up streets • Give neighborhood character and culture affiliation
  • 43. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today Figure 12: The neighborhood today has developed cultural autonomy.
  • 44. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today • Neighborhood sustains: • Children’s orchestra • Cultural centers • Artists • Music • Dance • Chinese Historical Society of America
  • 45. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today Ugly side of Chinatown • Tenement buildings crowded with elderly and new immigrants • Problem due to: • Discrimination and exclusion • Unemployment • Healthcare • Poor housing
  • 46. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today Figure 13: Tenements in Chinatown
  • 47. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today Culture • Mid-Autumn Festival • Celebrates season changes • Local bazaars • Entertainment • Mooncakes • Chinese Culture Center • Promotes exhibitions of Chinese life in the U.S. • Organizes tours of the areas
  • 48. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today Culture • Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association • Parent organization of the many local Chinese family and regional associations in Chinatown • Chinatown Community Development Center • Sought to improve tenant problems with sub-standard housing, and many empowerment programs
  • 49. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Chinatown Today Triad violence • Shooting spree of Golden Dragon Restaurant • 5 people killed • 11 people injured • Triad violence continued, but less serious
  • 50. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Works Cited Alison Bashford, Peter Hobbins, Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick. Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney:Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 52, April 2016, Pages 16-25, ISSN 0305-7488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.12.003. 〈http://www.sciencedirect.com 〉. ”ART HISTORY: Colt Tower Paints A Pretty Picture Of San Francisco’s History.” Journal Of Property Management 76.4 (2011): 20-21. Business Source Complete. Web. 19 Apr. 2016.
  • 51. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Works Cited Boone, M. Elizabeth. ””Something of His Own Soil”: Jewish History, Mural Painting, and Bernard Zakheim in San Francisco (1).” American Jewish History 90.2 (2002): 123. Literature Resource Center. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. 〈http://go.galegroup.com 〉. Chow, Michelle. ”History of San Francisco Chinatown.” San Francisco Chinatown. Tiger Business Development Inc, 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2016. 〈http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com 〉. ”Concept for a Bridge Across the Golden Gate Strait,” “Golden Gate Bridge Design,” and “Ground Breaking Ceremony.” Golden Gate Bridge. Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, 2006. Web. 26 Apr. 2016. 〈http://goldengatebridge.org 〉.
  • 52. Interest in Chinatown History of Chinatown Building Chinatown Chinatown Today Resources Works Cited Jewett, Masha Zakheim. ”FoundSF.” Coit Tower Politics -. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. 〈http://foundsf.org〉. ”Neighborhoods North Beach Coit Tower.” San Francisco Mural Arts. SF Mural Arts, 2010. Web. 26 Apr. 2016. 〈http://www.sfmuralarts.com〉. ”The Story of Chinatown.” PBS. KQED. Web. 28 Apr. 2016. 〈http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html〉.