San Francisco and thereabout 1902
Chinatown
Off from the main
business street of Chinatown extend many side lanes and dark alleys. The
buildings are abandoned stores and dwellings of the white population, more or
less made over by the addition of balconies.
There are narrow passages and long dark stairways that one hesitates to venture
upon.
Stolid crowds of men with expressionless faces packed the alley, coming and
going in a never-ending stream.