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players, our staff, everybody that works for this organization is located in this building. one building. and work together. it's about teamwork, not just on the basketball court, but in an organization in its entirety. everybody will hopefully provide all of you with customers with a tremendous experience because they will be working together every single day and every single night in this building. and we're proud of that. [applause] that was the vision for it. you will be the judge as to whether we have achieved all of those things. i think we've done a good job. the journey, i'll just say very briefly, one of hardest things i have ever done, i know peter feels the same. maybe the hardest, it's just an incredibly complex building and building something this big in san francisco is not an easy thing to get done and we all know why. it's just a tough environment to do it. we did it and we're very proud of that. the journey has been difficult.
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2500 days, maybe it is a little more than that, started up here 3032, was a spectacular venue. but we think this is better and so many contributions by so many people and what i'd like to do now is to show you some of those contributions by all those people by teeing up this video we'd like to show you. ♪
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>> thank you very much. you know, i went through a tour yesterday through the locker room. and it is the most remarkable place i've ever seen in my life. they have tvs in everybody's locker and their own shower. and a place where you can eat. two basketball courts. a place you can get a massage. a place you can get a haircut. i think the biggest problem is trying to get these guys to go home. [laughter] i'd never go home. i'd live right down there. it's so wonderful. thank you, joe. now our next speaker is a person, no pun intended, who simply has the golden touch. when it comes to building an empire in the sports and entertainment business. his basketball team, the golden state warriors, has appeared in the nba finals five consecutive seasons. his basketball team, the dodgers -- [laughter] respect, respectful, ok,
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baseball team -- [laughter] they've advanced to the world series each of the last two years and his soccer team, which opened one of the most premier stadiums in this sport, currently sits in first place in its division. other than, that his teams have really struggle. co-executive chairman peter guber. [applause] >> the last time i had this feeling was a bunch of years ago. and i glanced at my watch, ran up to the bank and said thanks, thanks, thank you and sat down. i glanced at my watch. wow! the whole thing was less than 15 seconds. and i worked four years start to finish for those 15 seconds? nah, that would be a horrible life. so, today when i look around, the journey that we have when
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all done will be a decade and i'm going to get a little more than 15 seconds. look around. suck it in. because your life is a series of moments strung together. i want to just enjoy this moment, seeing friends and colleagues and people that contribute to the success. my great pleasure and honor to share this day with you. yes, it will be a decade from the first whisper of joe, my great partner, who i adored, to me. just two words -- what if? and so it began. so it began. yes, it will be a decade from that first whisk broom, joe. and our personal journey of discovery began and healed by so much more and so much more to do that will fill out the decade. the calling was to build a state-of-the-art venue which required a state of the heart mission. in a world seemingly more divided than ever, our intention was to create a
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modern-day campfire. not just a brick and mortar building, but a place to make us all dream to be physically together, laughing, cheering, crying, being delighted and astonished. not in individual cacophony, but experiencing the best talents in all fields together in the world and celebrate we have more in common than divided us. all of the folks who tirelessly contributed to this equation and made this happen have my utmost respect and gratitude for their talents antenasty. rick, our super, super, super, super duper leader and the best part of rick is his friendship. he comes from his heart and all the -- [applause] challenges and problems and he allows us to be the best we can be. all of you here, so many more
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with a cast and crew on an uncertain journey that somehow never on budget -- and that was certainly a big source of our angst here -- but in the end, like any big movie, however expensive, no one says let's go down to the mession theater, i hear the film came in on budget. it will be the audience, you all and our public, who will determine our enterprise's true fate and value. not the cost of its brick and mortar. the audience will be shaped by your warriors, artists and performers, content aimed at the heart. this is where hits are born. not in the brick and mortar. it's in your heart. if we succeed, our audience will share their experience, telling their story which will determine the true fate and value of our entertainment. and the edifice at the center of it all. so i shout out to our new bright and shiny, make us dream again and again. thank you, all.
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enjoy today. it's the only one you'll ever have. [applause] >> thank you, peter. our next speaker is someone who said 2600 days, 23 hours and 41 minutes ago when the warriors first made the announcement they were moving to san francisco that they were going to need the state of california and they were going to need him. all of that was very, very true and we thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, the 40th governor of the state of california, gavin newsome. [applause] >> thank you very much. by the way, it's not just ahmad. haircuts and massage ?aibl they have a damn manicurist and pedicurist. i hope this team is not going soft, folks. this is a little disconcerning. five nba finals does that to you. my purpose today is twofold.
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one is to express gratitude and also to make a personal point. i want to first acknowledge the extraordinary work the mayor, the mayor's office to do what she needed to do to make this date real and thank mayor willie brown for envisioning mission bay as it is today and to thank -- [applause] anita lee, who's here, on behalf of ed lee. ed lee, two and a half years ago, was just a stone's throw away at the groundbreaking. and he ended his speech talk about how much he looked forward to this day. as you know, he lost his life, but his passion is demonstrable here today and i just want to express, on a personal level, my deep gratitude to him. it was his faith and devotion to this cause that led to this moment. [applause]
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thank you, anita. and let me also just express on a personal level the loss and, rick, you were kind enough to do this at the groundbreaking of jen macs. these are folks that 90% of you don't know who the hell i'm talking about. but everyone sitting here for the mayor's office, we lost jen in 2014 and she was one of the principle leaders of this effort as well. there is an old saw about san francisco that says san francisco is nothing more than 47 square miles surrounded by reality. which is a wonderful way to describe this whacky and wonderful place we call home. a city, not dissimilar to our state, of dreamers and doers and entrepreneurs, a city that prides itself on being on the leading and cutting edge. but what it was messing is what every american city in the united states had all right. and that was a venue like this that can hold 10-plus thousand people.
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that was the missing ingredient. so, let me just acknowledge and applaud the extraordinary commitment the warriors come back home to make real their vision, we need to build housing like we're building arenas in this state. [applause] so let me thank you for your perseverance and for peter's passion and enthusiasm and all the community that made this real. rick, i saw meanie silver jumping up and down. she is just happy it's not at 3032. she's just happy it's down the road. so many people that made it possible, the planning commission over here and, you know, the day after labor day, the organized labor for building this arena and for all of their extraordinary talent displayed here in scale. [applause]
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i'll close with the final words. peter, you're right. you talk about shared experiences. we're living in a world where people are talking down to each other, talking past each other. people are watching, you know, different tv. what i love about something like this is everybody can come together across their differences. no one cares what your position is on tariffs. no one cares what your position is on tax reform or gun control. they're just here to share that magical moment and it is to t sum total of all of those magical moments that makes life worth living. final words -- eat your heart out, madison square garden. thank you all very much. [applause] >> and any other arena that might want to think that way. [laughter] thank you, governor newsome. our next speaker is beyonce! no, wait. hold on. hold on. that's just the next speaker's
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favourite performer and once beyonce starts touring again, i'm told chase center will do whatever they can do to get beyonce here. all right. ladies and gentlemen, the 45th mayor of the city and county of san francisco, london breed. [applause] >> good morning. i'm so excited to be here today to open up this new, incredible center for so many san franciscoans to enjoy for generations to come. you know, here in san francisco, we always talk about the future. well, the future is here right now and this ribbon cutting today of the world-class championship-winning golden state warriors who are going to bring the championship to san francisco. [applause] as governor newsome mentioned earlier, the vision of mission bay came forth when mayor
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willie brown was mayor at the time, although i still think he believes he's mayor. you remember that from when you were mayor, right? he had a vision. and the vision was to create a new neighborhood in mission bay. and this is just really the icing on the cake. never did we imagine we would have such an incredible center. but let me just tell you a little bit about the warriors and what they did to not just come to san francisco and build a facility. they decided to come home and continue to be a part of this community. by focusing on making sure that this center was not only built by the hands of labor, but it was built by san franciscoans. [applause] and that was so important because there are people right in this community who were looking for job opportunities and they, with j.p. morgan chase, created a training academy like citiville. but it was specifically for
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chase center. in fact, i was walk down the street in the tenderloin last years and ran into someone who was struggling. someone who needed a job opportunity and needed housing. the next day, josh arsay from the workforce development office picked him up personally in his car and brought him to the chase center training academy. he, along with 32 other people, graduated from that academy and i was able to go to that graduation. and on the same day, not only tell a.c. that starting next week he would be working on the chase center, but also his fellow graduates would be working on the chase center. [applause] it was absolutely incredible. this project and the doors that it opened, for opportunities to build but also for our small business community to succeed. in fact, you will enjoy the old
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school cafe, which is an incredible training ground for our young people in the bayview hunter point, working at former supervisor malia cohen worked on when she was supervisor to help provide opportunities for folks right in this community. small businesss that will be located right here at the chase arena. but they went even further and they made sure that local artists were a part of this incredible facility. not just in the bay area, but in san francisco. the incredible mosaic founded in the mission in 1977. it's just really a true testament to what makes san francisco so incredible. but they went even further because they knew that transportation was going to be at the forefront of everybody's thoughts. with 18,000 [inaudible] and thousands of employees and
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incredible basketball players that needed to get in and out of this space, what were we going to do to make sure that happened as efficiently as possible with over 200 events and games and all kinds of activities that would happen here? they put forward a $29 million investment in transportation, providing four new trains, providing an expanded platform, providing opportunities to work with us so that we have a ferry land, and ways to get people in and out of this space as efficiently as possible. [applause] and i want to thank all the folks who work on the transportation plan because what came out of our effort from last year is an incredible opportunity. with your ticket to any event, whether you are going to see beyonce or you are i don'ting to see the warriors, you can hop on muni for free. and i think that is absolutely outstanding and a commitment that the warriors have to
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making sure that this has been a successful center and it's open and available to all san franciscoans. that's what's absolutely incredible. so, i want to thank joe and peter for their leadership and their vision and i also want to really thank them for hiring rick. because let me tell you -- mimi is jumping up and down. she only jumps up and down for rick and that is because, i remember when me and jane kim and malia were here today, we were on the board of supervisor
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she only jumps up and down for rick and that is because, i remember when me and jane kim and malia were here today, we were on the board of supervisors and the work that we had to do and the process and what happens here and how rick in every single instance was basically actively engaged with wanting to be a part of the community. i'm so excited about the future. [applause] and last but not least, i want to say a few words about mayor ed lee because he was a real basketball fan and a true warriors fan. and this arena was something that he wanted to happen for san francisco. and so the work that he did, the obstacles that were overcome to allow something of this magnitude to happen and as was said before, you all know
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that with san francisco it is very challenging sometimes to get things done and get things built. but 100% privately financed, the work that had to go into the approval process, both state and locally, all that had to get done in order to make this a reality. every step of the way, mayor ed lee pushed for this project to happen and i know that we would not be here today had it not been for his incredible leadership. [applause] and i know he's smiling down on us today, anita. and we want to thank you so much for being here. and at 5 '7," you couldn't tell him he wasn't taller than any other basketball player on the court. and we are truly missing him today, but we know that he is here with us. thank you to all the city departments, all the different public safety officials, all the labor folks, all the people
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who worked hard to make this happen. this chase center will be an incredible asset for san francisco for generations to come and we're proud to make it a reality for so many people who deserve this incredible space. and i'll definitely be here when beyonce is performing. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, mayor breed. our next speaker is a person i've known for about 50 years, which is almost impossible because i'm only 39. [laughter] i'm actually surprised she is even here. according to my unconfirmed records, he has attended 91486 meetings about the new arena over the last several years working his magic behind the scenes and paving the way for this incredible moment today. he has been a part of many transformative events and league history during his hall of fame career. yes, i said hall of fame career. [applause]
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former mayor, senator dianne feinstein took a special interest in this project. mayor willie brown, thank you for your guidance. your advice. mayor mark farrell, a wonderfully unapologetic warriors fan. now you greet me with your trademark big greek kifmsz i'm not sure which is more challenging. [laughter] to our friends in labor from day one, you saw the impact this project would have on jobs and the quality of life in our region and you gave us your support.
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as many as 1600 union workers a day brought their talent, dedication and pride to this project. [applause] thanks to each of you and thanks to the president of the san francisco labor council. so many legendary leaders in san francisco helped me, this fairly new bay area resident learn the impossible nuances of politics in this place we call home. in particular, don burton and mimi silver. thank you for befriending me and sharing your wisdom. [applause] thanks to ucsf for your spirit of cooperation and community. we want to be great neighbors. we needed critical state legislation to get this project completed and that was a heavy lift. thanks to assembly member phil chang, mark leno, assembly
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member david chiu. then senator pro tem and now mayor of sacramento, daryl steinberg and speaker of the assembly john paris. they worked together and showed incredible leadership in sacramento when we needed it most. back here in san francisco, we needed the support of the entire board of supervisors and, in particular, former supervisor jane kim. who always provided invaluable advice while looking out for all of her constituents here in district six. and supervisor matt haney who, today, represents district six. to the attorney dennis serara and his staff, especially jesse smith. [applause] san francisco travel. you were with us from day one. san francisco police department and chief bill scott. the san francisco fire department and chief janine nicholson with a special shout-out to the recently retired chief. [applause]
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the sfmta is key to us fulfilling our promise to be a transit-first destination, lead by director tom mcwater and his predecessor. virtually every city department and every member of the leadership team touched this project in so many ways. thank you all. we're very proud of the community process today. thanks to the business and residential neighbors who attended countless meetings and provided feedback. thanks to the ocii commissioners, the staff and thed executive director and her staff. the mission bay citizens advisory committee. thank you for your tireless work. to the san francisco giants for welcoming us to the neighborhood. thanks to david manicka and will hoff for designing this incredible building and to our general contractors for building it. and just thanks to steve codda,
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jason elliott, p.j. johnson, sean elsburn, seth boxer and mary murphy. and then there is our amazing staff, my teammates. enjoy this day. every one of you should be proud, knowing that you have a piece of this moment. i'm proud to be your teammate. in a city that doesn't spend tax dollar on sports facilities, founding partners take on an even more important role. building a privately financed arena would not be possible without them. at the top of that list is j.p. morgan chase. more than three and a half years ago, chase and the warriors had a shared vision and resulted in a 20-year partnership to call this building chase center. in addition to chase, since then, we have announced a list of our founding partners who, without them, this simply would not be possible. we gather here today as part of
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our kaiser permanente community-based partnership. our founding partners, google cloud, h.p.e., oracle, pepsi, rakuten, ticketmaster, united airlines and verizon. together, with all of our other partners in attendance, we wants to thank you for creating this community gathering place and this performance venue that will transform the bay area. now in closing, i'd like to acknowledge a few individuals who began this journey with us that are not here to see the ultimate success of their contributions. just this past april, we lost corinne woods, the legendary community advocate and chairperson at mission bay citizens advisory committee. all of us live half in fear and half in awe of corinne. she shaped so much of this project with her efforts. [laughter]
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the governor mention 2014 jennifer macs lost her heroic fight with pancreatic cancer. she was the point guard for this project and the city. and her energy, intellect and personality left an indelible impact on all of us who knew her. when that new bayfront pack opens next year, jen will be remembered with a trail named in her honor. [applause] faintly, it seems to be on a lot of our minds today. i want to acteneding no j -- acknowledge our friend and leader, san francisco mayor ed lee. it was ed lee who invited the warriors back to san francisco and it was ed lee who called this his legacy project. without ed lee, we would not be here today. his warmth, smile, his laughter made him so approachable and so genuine. he loved san francisco and the people here and we love mayor lee. let's take another look at his
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life. >> the san francisco mayor ed lee continues to live on and thrive. it's a legacy that extends far beyond politics and reaching far beyond the bay area. even if you're unfamiliar with the beloved san francisco mayor, chances are his life has affected your life. for many, ed lee is remembered for being the first asian-american politician elected mayor of a major american city. but this accomplishment overshadows a long and productsive career spent advocating for the rights of everyday people in the city he loved with all his heart. his sudden death in 2017 was an unbearable loss to the entire city. today, we proudly remember his early days as a human rights activist fighting for the very city he would one day represent on issues like workers' rights, immigration and affordable housing.
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mayor ed lee was also a passionate, dedicated warriors fan and while the original champions of the golden state warriors moved back to san francisco. without his support, the opening of chase center may have remained a pipe dream. ed lee always saw chase center as more than a building. he envisioned the values that a gathering place like this would bring for the entire community.
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understood the importance that it would have on the future of san francisco. throughout his career, ed lee always handled himselfs with grace and dignity. his guiding principle, no matter what the issue was evident. empathy for the less fortunate. empathy for the underrepresented. and empathy for his city. while it is impossible to replace his humor, work ethic and compassion, we're proud to honor his example has been left on each of our lives. [applause] >> thank you very much, rick, for those inspirational words and such an important tribute to mayor lee. we're honored to have his wife anita lee with us here today. [applause] our final speaker is from an organization who's not only the naming rights partner of the arena, but also has the same vision and innovation as the warriors. together they have been in sync throughout the journey. ladies and gentlemen, j.p. morgan chase c.m.o. kristen limcow. [applause] >> thank you, ahmad. thanks to joe, peter, rick, all of our partners at the warriors
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and all the j.p. morgan chase employees who came out here today. governor newsome, mayor breed. when j.p. morgan chase announced our partnership with the warriors and to become the naming rights partner for the chase center three years ago, we didn't just sign up to be the partner to a basketball team. even the winningest basketball team over the past five years. and we didn't just sign up to be partners with the best owners in sports or with rick, the best president in sports and we didn't just sign up to put our brand ton side of this gorgeous, most technologically advanced, most fan-friendly and all tho* those things ahmad said arena and the one worthy of being san francisco's first. we signed up to be a partner to the bay area. we get to look at a lot of these sports naming rights fields and not with what made this undeniable for us. j.p. morgan chase has been here for 130 years. we have 3,000 employees who work here. we've doubled our branch
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network here over the past 10 years. the c.e.o. of our consumer bank is here today. the two of us were running around taking pictures inside like two little kids. we serve 2.5 million customers and last year we financed more than $2 billion in projects in transportation, health care and housing in san francisco and oakland alone, including 6,000 affordable housing units that were preserved or created. when we announced the chase center three years ago, we committed $25 million to the city for jobs, jobs training, small business growth, financial health and this is just the beginning for us. joe, if you remember three years ago when we announced this partnership, you said to us that this would be the best investment that we ever made. it is day one and you are already right. so i will say to you and to peter and to rick and to the fans and to the team and to the mayor and the governor, we will
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be the best corporate partner that you ever had. thank you so much for having us here. thank you and here's to many new memories and championships in the chase center. it's a privilege. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, kristen. as she was speaking, i couldn't help but think -- because i'm old enough to remember back from what i believe was the first nba arena to have integrated naming rights partnered with like the fabulous form or the great western form. but those words, great and fabulous, don't even come close. because as i said earlier and i want to leave you with this. when i say this place is incredible, astonishing, staggering, phenomenal, spectacular, remarkable, unbelievable, out standing, impressive, extraordinary, gorgeous, breathtaking, stimulating, world-class, beautiful fantastic masterpiece, it is chase center. [applause] one more round of applause for
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it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays
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know, andfridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers.
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i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our
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corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful
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learningstreets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and
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meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up.
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i
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african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no
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standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current
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administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy
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new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give
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