Hi JeRevien,
You could try to research census data (Ask at the SF State library how to do this), but I can tell you from my experience that you're pretty close to being right that the early 1980s is when Asian businesses started to move in. There were definitely restaurants before, but the cluster of Chinese groceries, etc around 30th-32nd Avenue came in the 1980s and exploded in the mid-1990s. Outer Irving Street went through a similar change, a bit earlier than Noriega.
Woody LaBounty
Western Neighborhoods Project
300 Taraval Street, Suite A
San Francisco, CA 94116-1953
415-661-1000
http://www.outsidelands.org/
On May 1, 2011, at 1:18 PM, JeRevien Richeson wrote:
> from: JeRevien Richeson
> email: jricheson12@yahoo.com
> message: Hello, My name is JeRevien Richeson and I am a student at San Francisco State University. I am currently doing a research project regarding Asian American communities in San Francisco. In specific, my group and I have chosen Noriega Street as our research focus. We have had a tough time finding previous research on Noriega street and we are glad to have found your website. However, we are still stuck in a rutt trying to find more information on the community. We have researched the current demographics of the neighborhood and come to find that it is predominently a Chinese community. Previous to finding your website, we could only trace most of the community back to the late 80's and it seemed as though it had always been mostly Chinese. Since we have found that this community has only developed into an ethnic enclave recently, we need information on when the community began to change.Hence, we were wondering if you, or anyone else, could help us answer some questi!
> ons regarding the Noriega street area. Thank You, JeRevien Richeson
> from: formhandler
> referrer: http://www.outsidelands.org/wnp-ten-years.php
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