Postcard - San Francisco, California - Chinatown - Sing Chong Company, Inc. - Chinese Bazaar - Color - Vintage - MINT

Mint, color, vintage postcard entitled, "Sing Chong Company, Inc., Leading Chinese bazaar, California and Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California."  Produced by Britton & Rey Lithographers, San Francisco, California; publishers of pictorial post cards.  Where postage stamp goes (upper right-hand corner of back of postcard) reads, "Place Postage Stamp Here - Domestic One Cent - Foreign Two Cents."

San Francisco's Chinatown is one of North America's largest and oldest sub-cities in the U.S.  Established in the 1850's, it has been featured in many popular movies, photographs, music and literature.  Within Chinatown there are major thoroughfares: Grant Avenue (with its famous Dragon Gate on the corner of Bush Street and Grant Avenue), St. Mary's Park (with its statue of Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen) and Stockton Street (which looks a lot like Hong Kong).  Another major focal point is Portsmouth Square which has a replica of the Goddess of Democracy used in Beijing's 1999 Tiananmen Square protest.  In recent decades, Cantonese-speaking immigrants from Hong Kong and mainland China have gradually led to the replacement of the Taishanese dialect with the Hong Kong Cantonese dialect.  Taishanese is spoken less and less in China and will be gone in a generation from North America.

Classic North American postcard; great collectible with potential for appreciation.