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A portrait of George Lee, a local photographer. George Lee's family moved to Santa Cruz when he was 3 years old. They lived in Birkenseer's Chinatown, the fourth of Santa Cruz's Chinatowns. While living in Chinatown, Lee took several famous portraits…
Chinese fishermen's village, located at what is now New Brighton State Beach. The Chinese shipped boxes of fresh fish from the Aptos and Capitola railroad stations.
The Chinese laundry - both an economic foundation of the Chinese-American community and the source of a lingering stereotype - has been in slow decline.
Last Local Chinatown (Birkenseer's), caption under picture from the Preston Sawyer collection