Once called Harrison Railroad Park, the site of the Hall of Pioneers now has buildings designed by Chinatown political leader Henry Chang, a member of the Oakland City Council. The main building is used by Family Bridges, a Chinatown-based social service agency serving low-income seniors.

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William Wong was born and grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown. He went on to a distinguished journalism career (The Wall Street Journal, Oakland Tribune, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer). He is the author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America (Temple University Press, 2001) and Images of America: Oakland’s Chinatown (Arcadia Publishing Co., 2004).

Visit his web sites, http://www.yellowjournalist.com and http://www.oaklandchinatownhistory.org.