China Town - San Francisco

San Francisco's is the largest Chinatown outside Asia. A population of around 70,000 live in 30 square blocks. The gateway to Chinatown at Bush and Grant
Avenue was given to the city of San Francisco by the Republic of Taiwan. Grant Avenue is San Francisco's first street (formerly Dupont Street) and
stands today as the center of Chinatown. Streets are lined with shops and trading companies offering a variety of colorful merchandise - silk, jade, artifacts and
antiques. Restaurants are excellent (Try House of Nan-King) Old St. Mary's Church, California and Grant, built in 1852, is one of the few buildings to
escape destruction by the great fire of 1906. © Janet Aguila Krause