. >> welcome to san francisco historic chinatown a place with a past, present, and future merge with et culture and cuisine join us as was take you on a journey. san francisco chinatown is a feeling testament of china's immigrants and arrived in 1950 during the gold rush but hardship built a 35 community that served for generations. today san francisco chinatown is a burtonsville neighborhood brimming with history and culture. one of the highlights of this vibrant is worldwide can i intervene aim first and the oldest. we are known for handmade our claim to fame is our unique food and few places in the world. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> chinatown is a food louvers paradise with a rich engrave and cuisine. >> back requires and moon contacts and every fine dining. >> welcome to (unintelligible). >> sandy spring /*. >> (speaking foreign language.) whether you're an ad veteran urban forester chinatown has something for everyone. >> chinatown is not just again food also a hub of creativity and take a stroll down the street with murals as culture exhibitions to celebrate the heritage

. >> welcome to san francisco historic chinatown a place with a past, present, and future merge with the street culture and cuisine join us as was take you on a journey. san francisco chinatown is a feeling testament of china's immigrants and arrived in 1950 during the gold rush but hardship built a 35 community that served for generations. today san francisco chinatown is a burtonsville neighborhood brimming with history and culture. one of the highlights of this vibrant is worldwide can i intervene aim first and the oldest. we are known for handmade our claim to fame is our unique food and few places in the world. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> chinatown is a food louvers paradise with a rich engrave and cuisine. >> back requires and moon contacts and every fine dining. >> welcome to (unintelligible). >> sandy spring /*. >> (speaking foreign language.) whether you're an ad veteran urban forester chinatown has something for everyone. >> chinatown is not just again food also a hub of creativity and take a stroll down the street with murals as culture exhibitions to celebrate the h

san francisco listened to our dreams and made them real. start your chinatown. >> (music). >> welcome to san francisco historic chinatown a place with a past,ith the street culture and cuisine join us as was take you on a journey. san francisco chinatown is a feeling testament of china's immigrants and arrived in 1950 during the gold rush but hardship built a 35 community that served for generations. today san francisco chinatown is a burtonsville neighborhood brimming with history and culture. one of the highlights of this vibrant is worldwide can i intervene aim first and the oldest. we are known for handmade our claim to fame is our unique food and few places in the world. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> chinatown is a food louvers paradise with a rich engrave and cuisine. >> back requires and moon contacts and every fine dining. >> welcome to (unintelligible). >> sandy spring /*. >> (speaking foreign language.) whether you're an ad veteran urban forester chinatown has something for everyone. >> chinatown is not just again food also a hub of creativity and take a stroll down the street with murals as culture exhibitions to celebrate t

giving tuesday coverage continues now, one historic nonprofit in san francisco has worked for 150 years to improve the lives of the whole family in chinatownith services for everyone from kids to the elderly. joining us live now to talk about the work of cameron house and how you can get involved is cameron house, ceo scott lamb. hey, scott, thanks for joining us. >> hello. thank you so much. >> happy giving tuesday and congratulations on your 150th anniversary. is that right? >> it is. yes. we celebrated 150 years this past september. we had our big 150th anniversary gala. it was a wonderful celebration. many longtime alumni and supporters came out. we had about 450 folks come out to saint joseph's art society here in the city to celebrate with us 150 amazing years of impact here in chinatown. >> it is a lot of impact. scott, i want you to share your historic beginnings with us and looking at your website, it clicked in my head. i wonder if i watched the show. it's wonderful. called warrior and i think there was a character in there based on your founder, right? >> indeed, yes, yes. in the show warrior, there is a character that was based

and this comes as incoming san francisco mayor, daniel lurie, who is looking to chinatown to lead the way for change in the city. lurie even took his victory lap in this historicghborhood, taking pictures with well wishers, meeting with old friends, eating congratulatory dumplings. come january, lurie is set to face a number of challenges it many chinatown including illegal vending. some merchants say it is hurting businesses that are playing by the rules. andrea nakano has more. >> reporter: edward su was born in hong kong, but now proudly calls chinatown in san francisco his home. as the chairman of the chinatown merchants united association of san francisco, he was alarmed when he saw these vendors, setting up shop on the sidewalk. >> when it happens, all of chinatown is it in big trouble. >> reporter: the vendors are mostly elders, trying to supplement their social security income. but he points out, it's just not fair for legitimate merchants. >> we have them here to pay the represent, the insurance, license, tax, everything, we have to pay for it, okay. and those representers, they don't need to pay for it. >> he first brought the issue up. he was hoping