Yee Bong Cafe

Pomona Public Library

Yee Bong Cafe in Carson City's Chinatown was a chop suey house housed in a rickety two-story wooden building. I believe it was located at the corner of 3rd and Valley streets, but it's tough to be sure. Much of Chinatown dated back to the 1870s, when the Chinese came to Carson City to build the railroad and work as woodcutters in the mountains. The population of Chinatown may have reached as high as 1,000, but by the 1930s there were only a few dozen Chinese in the whole town. A few of them still called Chinatown home, but mostly it was a ghost town by that time. Yee Bong's was probably the hotspot. Chinatown was gone by the 1950s.

Date Uploaded: January 18, 2009

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Source: California Digital Library

Source URL: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt787020d2/

Source Caption: Title:
Yee Bong Cafe Old Chinatown, Carson City, Nevada
Creator:
Burton Frasher Sr. 1888-1955
Publisher:
Pomona Public Library
Date:
1935
Type:
Photographic Postcard
Identifier:
A8835
Language:
eng
Relation:
Frasher Foto/Digital Acquisitions Project

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