Tin How Temple

I climb those stairs every time I walk Chinatown. Three flights of creaking wood, and then incense and altar smoke and red lanterns.

A working Taoist temple founded by Gold Rush-era immigrants on Waverly Place — the alley known in the nineteenth century as 'the street of painted balconies.'

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