[QUOTE=hskwarrior;800488]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJdtrdgjCE[/QUOTE]
thanks for the link. I read about a tong war around 1900…the white reporter sat on a balcony drinking tea while one gang lined up on one side, and the other manned up on the other side of the intersection…when the light went green they battled…or something like that, straight out of “Big trouble in little China”
yeah thats some crazy sheet
but i really loved the old pics of chinatown, but the history is incredible.
those pics date back to around the 1800’s did you see the guy with the butterfly knives? i wonder who he was.
frank
Frank, I’ve put the picture of the swordsman on the attachment.
That is one crazy looking dude.
That is one crazy looking dude.
he still takes a good photo.
Oh yeah it is a good picture but those eyes. :eek:
I could be wrong, but that building in the background looks similar to the ones in Marysville, which the suey sing have a branch. I wonder…
it definately says gung fu people were in america prior to Lau Bun, but i want to know who that guy is…and thats around 1875…Jeong Hung Sing was still alive then.
mano mano, where’d you find that pic?
thanks for posting it.
I found it by accident a few months ago on the Online Archive of California.
I was originally looking information on early American & Filipino boxers.
What I find interesting about the Butterfly knives is they seem to be designed more for stabbing than slashing. Another interesting thing in the photo is behind him on the ground is a staff & under the staff is what I had originally thought was a tiger fork however there seems to be only one outside prong & some sort of prong or blade under the staff, so what ever the other weapon is a mystery to me.
According to the information on another link it was taken at 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
mission street? isnt that Franks hood?
Im a bit suspicious about that photo. The lighting and picture quality seems a little to good for somehting taken in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s
yeah, thats my hood, and i guess gangster sheets been going on in the mission since 1875!!! hahahaha
no, i think the historical society is on mission street
lol
Frank any idea on how the Chinese population in San Francisco was made up at that time, were they mostly Southern or Northern Chinese.
since mandarin isn’t really used that much in sf, i feel but don’t know for sure that most came from southern china.
but don’t quote me on that
I had a feeling the guy in the photo was southern Chinese when I originally saw the butterfly knives.
It would be nice to think he was CLF however for that time frame he could be of any Southern system CLF, Hung Gar, White Crane or even some unknown family/clan fighting system.
very true very true.
its nice to wonder…but i wish someone could say, hey, thats my uncle…and he did do the ? style of gung fu.
but, yeah, i think southern too.
Yeah definately southern, northern styles don’t use butterfly knives unless it was something added later during more modern times.
overwhelming majority early chinese immigrants to US were from southern China. That’s where they got most of the “coolie” (which is a english transliteration of the Chinese term for bitter labor or people who do hard work) for the railroad construction.
In Iris Chang’s book on early Chinese immigration into the states, she mentioned (If my memory serves) over 60% to 80% of the early immigrants were from Toishan of Guangdong, China. This was pre-wwII immigration. I think that’s where I got that bit of info.