Today's Chinatown was rebuilt after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, and its architecture is an odd mix of Edwardian fundamentals and Chinese details, sort of a westerner's idea of what a Chinatown ought to look like.
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From Betsy Malloy, About.com
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