Postcard - San Francisco, California - Chinatown - Street Scene with Packing Boxes & Chinese Lanterns - Vintage 1909 - Color - Used

Vintage, color postcard entitled, "A street scene in Chinatown, San Francisco, California."  Postmarked September 6th 1909 from San Francisco, California and sent to an addressee in Ohio.  Postcard No. 596 produced by Charles Weidner, Postcard Publisher, San Francisco, California; made in Germany. 

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.