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"Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" from episode #0136 "Where There's Smoke"

10.09.2019 - By BackStoryPlay

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In this segment from BackStory’s 2015 show, “Where There's Smoke: A History of Fire,” host emeritus Peter Onuf presents a story by reporter Chelsea Davis about how San Francisco’s thriving Chinatown emerged from the ashes of the 1906 Earthquake and the fires that followed, despite efforts to suppress it.

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