The second stop of my photographical tour of San Francisco: Chinatown. It seems like every major city in North America has to have a Chinatown, and most of them look exactly the same. Still, it’s kitsch, and who doesn’t love kitsch?
The obligatory gate. Not as pretty as in Victoria, not as big as in Vancouver. But I like the green.
Lovely colours.
Some streets in Chinatown are called after old beat poets and writers, because around the corner lies
City Lights Bookstore. It’s the bookstore and publisher that won an important vicotry for the freedom of press in the United States when the owner Ferlinghetti was put to trial on charges of obscenity for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s influential poem “Howl and Other Poems” (1956), but wasn’t convicted.
It was a really nice bookstore.
Katja Malmborg 