San Francisco Chinatown - Powell Street, west side 1985

Powell Street, fall 1985. West side between Washington and Jackson.

The church on the right below was (in 1985) the San Francisco Korean United Methodist Church. This congregation is said to be the first Korean American church in the United States, being formed in 1904. The church building was erected in 1928.

Original photographs and layout by Mary Leong. Edited for web by Malcolm Collier.

mcollier@sfsu.edu