Postcard - San Francisco, California - Chinatown - The Soothsayer - Linen - Color - MINT

Linen, color, mint postcard entitled, "The Soothsayer, Chinatown, San Francisco, California - 70."  Back reads, "The Chinese believe in their Gods - foremost among them is the God of Luck and down through the ages has come their custom of conveying Greetings, Good Will and Good Luck."  Pictorial Wonderland Art-Tone Series; Stanley A. Piltz Company, San Francisco, California.

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.