With support from the Wa Sung Community Service Club and other Chinatown organizations, Councilmember Abel Guillén secured $195,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to finance the ...
Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbor was home to thousands of fishing families known as "the floating people." They lived on junk boats or sampans — small, flat-bottomed wood boats about 4.5 to 7 meters in ...
Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...
You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat – tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight – is one of the ...
OAKLAND — After years of heavy use, the city’s famed Junk Boat is getting an overhaul. The City Council last month approved a community request to fund repairs to the large wood and metal junk boat ...
The real-life junk boats! Team of artists create three ships made of rubbish and sail them to Venice
At first glance, these may look like piles of rubbish cluttering up the canals of Venice. But these are three boats made entirely from salvaged junk - including plywood, motors and bedding. After six ...
“Six Spaniards who plan to sail a Hongkong junk back to Barcelona on Christmas Day arrived here by Air France from Paris yesterday. The leader is Jose Maria Tey, 39-year-old Barcelona merchant,” ...
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