Isleton's Chinatown

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Title

Isleton's Chinatown

Subject

Isleton, Japantown, Chinatown, 1910s, Main Street

Description

The Japanese and Chinese communities of Isleton were confined to Main Street west of F Street. The famous Bing Kong Tong building is the 2nd from the left. Many of the buildings along main street consisted of gambling halls that were frequented not just by the Chinese and Japanese but by Filipinos, East Indians and Caucasians until the state closed them down in the 1950s.

Source

Isleton Brannan-Andrus Historical Museum

Date

1917

Rights

Isleton Brannan-Andrus Historical Museum