Chinatown: Nanking Fook Woh

The post-quake postcards on this page show Nanking Fook Woh Co. on the northwest corner of Grant/Sacramento, a block north of Sing Fat and Sing Chong and just south of Hang Far Low. Nanking Fook Woh first appears in the 1917 Crocker-Langley ("importers of Oriental fine arts"), but the cards below show it as early as 1908.



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The Nanking Fook Woh building is at the left edge of each of these cards.



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Pacific Stationery 63. Cardinell-Vincent 63 has the same image and stock number.
Pacific Novelty 1-139, postmarked SF 6/04/1932, same image on white border era card.
Piltz 69, dated 1/28/1946.
Cal-Pictures 78297 advertises the Golden Pavilion restaurant. The ground floor windows on Sacramento have been removed. Just down the street, a sign advertises the Four Seas at the Hang Far Low building.



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