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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Roesch (postmarked SF 6/03/1908) shows Nanking Fook Woh at the NW corner Dupont/Sacramento.
The building just north (right) of Nanking Fook Woh
matches the images on the Hang Far Low page, though here the building has no fire escape.
The building at the right edge of the image is at the location of Hang Far Low,
but it is not the building shown on the Hang Far Low page;
my guess is that the building at right edge is simply supplied by the postcard artist.
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A decade later, Unknown publisher (postmarked SF 1919 [month/day illegible]) uses the same image,
with dragon pennants on the towers replaced by flags of the Republic of China
(the "five-colored flag") and of the US.
Chinese texts at left and right are modified,
the location is updated from Dupont/Sacramento to Grant/Sacramento,
the caption font is changed to script and italic,
and a reference to ""Nanking" tea room upstairs" is added.
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Britton & Rey 9011 (front enhanced with glitter) shows dragon dancers passing Nanking Fook Woh
during the 1909 Portolá Festival, with the Hang Far Low building just beyond.
The Nanking Fook Woh building is at the left edge of each of these cards.
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.
Steve's SF postcard pages: