Communities and locales - San Francisco, Tenderloin

United Nations Plaza - Farmers Market fall 1984

This market was the second farmers market established in San Francisco, opening in 1981 to serve the Tenderloin and South of Market districts with a good source of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other needs. Both areas had many low income people, including Filipino Americans and a growing number of SE Asian refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as Chinese Americans. This essay looks at the market on a Sunday.

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Original photographs, text, and layout by Carolyn Don and Cheryl Yee. Edited for web, with additional text, by Malcolm Collier