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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published on May 4, 2018.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you walk into the kitchen of \u003ca href=\"https://frankfats.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Fat’s\u003c/a> restaurant in Sacramento, the first thing you see (and smell… and hear…) are huge woks sizzling with fragrant oils and noodles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooks are chopping fresh vegetables and blocks of white tofu into cubes. And around the corner, banana cream pies are being carefully topped with whipped cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11665928 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30647_IMG_3022-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooks cover the pies with homemade whipped cream. Banana cream pie is one of the restaurant’s specialties. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s right, banana cream pies. Not a typical Chinese dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Frank Fat was not a typical guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank’s son, Jerry Fat, says his father wasn’t a chef per se, but that “it was his personality that brought him into the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665929\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-1020x1339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-1020x1339.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-800x1050.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-914x1200.jpg 914w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-1180x1549.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-960x1260.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-240x315.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-375x492.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-520x683.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat founded his namesake restaurant in 1939. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry Fat is the CEO of what is now the Fat Family Restaurant franchise. I met him in the dining room of the original Frank Fat’s in downtown Sacramento — one block away from the state capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long narrow space is lit with red lanterns, and Chinese tapestries and art decorate the walls. If these walls could talk, they would tell you a lot about California political history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665930\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-1020x1339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-1020x1339.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-800x1050.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-914x1200.jpg 914w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-1180x1549.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-960x1260.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-240x315.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-375x492.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-520x683.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Fat is Frank’s son, and CEO of the Fat Family Restaurant Group. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We became known as the ‘Third House of the Capitol,” he tells me. “We’ve had some famous deals that have been made here in the booths on the back of cocktail napkins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes a \u003ca href=\"http://capitolweekly.net/frank-fats-an-iconic-eatery-celebrates-its-70th-birthday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famous deal\u003c/a> brokered in 1987 by then-Assembly Speaker Willie Brown that changed the state’s civil liability laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more than 30 years before that, then-California Gov. Earl Warren was a regular at the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665932\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30650_alt_713-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous “napkin deal” napkin is framed on the wall of Frank Fat’s. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was big news. When Frank Fat was in Washington, D.C., he paid his friend a visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Fat smiles when he recalls the event, which he says was one of his dad’s favorite memories: “He invited my dad into his chambers. And he said the chief justice opened the drawer, had a shot of whiskey and they had a drink in his chambers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a Chinese immigrant to be toasted by a chief justice in the 1950s seems … incredible. And it is. But Frank Fat’s whole incredible story doesn’t begin there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fat immigrated to the United States from Canton, China in 1919. He was 16 years old. He came here not just for a better life, but to search for his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fat finally tracked his father down in Ohio, Jerry says the meeting was short and terse. “It was like he gave my father some money and said go make a life,” Jerry Fat recalls. “And that was it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Frank took the money and went to Sacramento, where his uncle lived. In 1939, he had saved up enough to buy an old Italian restaurant downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the beginning of Frank Fat’s. The restaurant quickly became a fixture for state workers, drawn in by Frank’s warm outgoing personality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665934\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665934\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-800x1053.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-1020x1342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-912x1200.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-1180x1553.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-960x1263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-240x316.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-375x494.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-520x684.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren shakes hands with Frank Fat. When Warren was governor of California, he was a regular at Frank Fat’s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even when people flocked to the restaurant to eat his Chinese food, Frank faced discrimination for being Chinese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son Jerry says when they were kids, neighbors organized to prevent them from buying a house downtown. So they had to move way out into the suburbs. But that didn’t stop Fat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an activist in a subtle way,” says Jerry. “He said he wanted to bring Chinese culture to the people of Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fat founded the Pacific Rim Street Fest, which features Chinese food, dance and music. It’s still one of Sacramento’s longest running street festivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from a few remodels, not much has changed at Frank Fat’s in 80 years. They’re still serving up heaping plates of their classics: honey walnut prawns, steak in oyster sauce and Peking duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665937\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-1020x1278.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-958x1200.jpg 958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-1180x1478.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-960x1203.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-240x301.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-375x470.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-520x651.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat immigrated from Canton, China in 1919. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, actually, there are a few more plaques on the wall…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Frank Fat’s won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/americas-classic-frank-fats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Beard America’s Classics Award\u003c/a>. It’s an award that honors a restaurant for having timeless appeal and quality food that reflects the character of its community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This award really gets at the heart of what makes Frank Fat’s such a beloved institution: the Fat family. Jerry Fat has five siblings who were all involved in the family business at one time or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though Frank Fat died in 1997, today there are nephews, aunts and even in-laws working in everything from recipe development to restaurant operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-1200x870.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-1180x856.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-960x696.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The whole Fat family worked in the family restaurant. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry says this experience is pretty normal for immigrant families. “You’re just expected to help out in the business,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1020x845.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1020x845.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-800x663.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1200x994.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1180x978.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-960x796.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-240x199.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-375x311.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-520x431.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat’s won the James Beard America’s Classics Award in 2013. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the next generation of Fats taking over, Jerry says that it’s up to them. He knows running a restaurant is hard work, especially when your name is literally attached to the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restaurant is so personal,” he says. “It’s not like running a factory where you could just turn on the machines and have somebody watch it.”\u003cbr>\nWhether or not the fourth generation picks up the baton, Jerry Fat is happy to keep his father’s legacy alive, one pot sticker — and banana cream pie — at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat with the restaurant’s catering truck. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank’s son, Jerry Fat, says his father wasn’t a chef per se, but that “it was his personality that brought him into the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665929\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-1020x1339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-1020x1339.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-800x1050.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-914x1200.jpg 914w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-1180x1549.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-960x1260.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-240x315.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-375x492.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925-520x683.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30436_Franks806BW-qut-e1525459935925.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat founded his namesake restaurant in 1939. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry Fat is the CEO of what is now the Fat Family Restaurant franchise. I met him in the dining room of the original Frank Fat’s in downtown Sacramento — one block away from the state capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long narrow space is lit with red lanterns, and Chinese tapestries and art decorate the walls. If these walls could talk, they would tell you a lot about California political history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665930\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-1020x1339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-1020x1339.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-800x1050.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-914x1200.jpg 914w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-1180x1549.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-960x1260.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-240x315.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-375x492.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142-520x683.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30655_alt_712-e1525460049142.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Fat is Frank’s son, and CEO of the Fat Family Restaurant Group. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We became known as the ‘Third House of the Capitol,” he tells me. “We’ve had some famous deals that have been made here in the booths on the back of cocktail napkins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes a \u003ca href=\"http://capitolweekly.net/frank-fats-an-iconic-eatery-celebrates-its-70th-birthday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famous deal\u003c/a> brokered in 1987 by then-Assembly Speaker Willie Brown that changed the state’s civil liability laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more than 30 years before that, then-California Gov. Earl Warren was a regular at the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665932\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30650_alt_713-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous “napkin deal” napkin is framed on the wall of Frank Fat’s. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was big news. When Frank Fat was in Washington, D.C., he paid his friend a visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Fat smiles when he recalls the event, which he says was one of his dad’s favorite memories: “He invited my dad into his chambers. And he said the chief justice opened the drawer, had a shot of whiskey and they had a drink in his chambers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a Chinese immigrant to be toasted by a chief justice in the 1950s seems … incredible. And it is. But Frank Fat’s whole incredible story doesn’t begin there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fat immigrated to the United States from Canton, China in 1919. He was 16 years old. He came here not just for a better life, but to search for his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fat finally tracked his father down in Ohio, Jerry says the meeting was short and terse. “It was like he gave my father some money and said go make a life,” Jerry Fat recalls. “And that was it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Frank took the money and went to Sacramento, where his uncle lived. In 1939, he had saved up enough to buy an old Italian restaurant downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the beginning of Frank Fat’s. The restaurant quickly became a fixture for state workers, drawn in by Frank’s warm outgoing personality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665934\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665934\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-800x1053.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-1020x1342.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-912x1200.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-1180x1553.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-960x1263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-240x316.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-375x494.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut-520x684.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30431_Earl-Warren-and-Frank-Fat-at-Frank-Fat27s-qut.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren shakes hands with Frank Fat. When Warren was governor of California, he was a regular at Frank Fat’s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even when people flocked to the restaurant to eat his Chinese food, Frank faced discrimination for being Chinese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son Jerry says when they were kids, neighbors organized to prevent them from buying a house downtown. So they had to move way out into the suburbs. But that didn’t stop Fat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an activist in a subtle way,” says Jerry. “He said he wanted to bring Chinese culture to the people of Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fat founded the Pacific Rim Street Fest, which features Chinese food, dance and music. It’s still one of Sacramento’s longest running street festivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from a few remodels, not much has changed at Frank Fat’s in 80 years. They’re still serving up heaping plates of their classics: honey walnut prawns, steak in oyster sauce and Peking duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665937\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-1020x1278.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-958x1200.jpg 958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-1180x1478.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-960x1203.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-240x301.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-375x470.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30433_fat1-qut-1-520x651.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat immigrated from Canton, China in 1919. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, actually, there are a few more plaques on the wall…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Frank Fat’s won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/americas-classic-frank-fats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Beard America’s Classics Award\u003c/a>. It’s an award that honors a restaurant for having timeless appeal and quality food that reflects the character of its community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This award really gets at the heart of what makes Frank Fat’s such a beloved institution: the Fat family. Jerry Fat has five siblings who were all involved in the family business at one time or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though Frank Fat died in 1997, today there are nephews, aunts and even in-laws working in everything from recipe development to restaurant operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-1200x870.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-1180x856.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-960x696.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30432_familybw-qut-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The whole Fat family worked in the family restaurant. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry says this experience is pretty normal for immigrant families. “You’re just expected to help out in the business,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1020x845.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1020x845.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-800x663.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1200x994.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-1180x978.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-960x796.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-240x199.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-375x311.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30649_alt_715-e1525460694452-520x431.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat’s won the James Beard America’s Classics Award in 2013. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the next generation of Fats taking over, Jerry says that it’s up to them. He knows running a restaurant is hard work, especially when your name is literally attached to the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restaurant is so personal,” he says. “It’s not like running a factory where you could just turn on the machines and have somebody watch it.”\u003cbr>\nWhether or not the fourth generation picks up the baton, Jerry Fat is happy to keep his father’s legacy alive, one pot sticker — and banana cream pie — at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30437_FrankwithCateringTruckedit-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fat with the restaurant’s catering truck. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Fat Family Restaurant Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Rossellini#Film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isabella Rossellini\u003c/a> recently published a book about \u003ca href=\"https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/my-chickens-and-i_9781419729911/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chicken farming\u003c/a>—not a thing that most people would necessarily expect of Hollywood Royalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of Oscar-winning actor Ingrid Bergman, Rossellini starred in movies like \"Big Night\" and \"Blue Velvet,\" was the longtime face of luxury perfume and cosmetics house Lancôme, and served as a muse to filmmakers David Lynch and Martin Scorsese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/QP-X1eZLEtQ?start=45&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rossellini's interest in the animal kingdom has become as prominent a feature of her career in recent years as her longstanding work in film and fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to raising chickens on her farm in Long Island and supporting various wildlife-related causes, Rossellini is studying for a master's degree in animal behavior at Hunter College in New York, and has created a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sundancetv.com/shows/green-porno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short experimental films\u003c/a> and live performances about\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the mating and parenting habits of various animals like spiders, hamsters and bees.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/X4tsEnGLKE4?start=2&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her latest theatrical production, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.thechapelsf.com/event/1753794-link-link-circus-by-isabella-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link Link Circus\u003c/a>,\" is about animal intelligence and the links connecting members of the animal kingdom, including ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was initially popularized by the British naturalist Charles Darwin. \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind,\" Darwin famously wrote of evolutionary theory as it relates to human development in his 1871 book, \u003cem>The Descent of Man.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/o14I9GPVZAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Chloe Veltman recently caught up with Rossellini at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> in San Francisco, where they hung out with the wildlife, and chatted about human evolution, chicken farming, and performing on stage with a dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to an edited version of their conversation by clicking the play button at the top of this page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11718412\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11718412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/photo-by-jody-shapiro1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Isabella Rossellini's dog Pan in a bee costume.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/photo-by-jody-shapiro1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/photo-by-jody-shapiro1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/photo-by-jody-shapiro1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/photo-by-jody-shapiro1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/photo-by-jody-shapiro1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella Rossellini's dog Pan in a bee costume. \u003ccite>(Jody Shapiro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Link Link Circus\" plays Thursday, Jan. 17 through Monday, Jan. 21 at The Chapel in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco has long led the way on gay rights. Among other things, it granted same-sex marriage licenses ahead of other U.S. cities in 2004, and, in 1982, hosted the inaugural gay games. In one of its more recent LGBTQ coups, the city is now distinguishing itself as the home of the country’s first official transgender cultural district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pg/Comptons-Transgender-Cultural-District-1601956093204763/about/?ref=page_internal\">The Compton’s Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a> covers around four square blocks of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, which has\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> one of the densest populations of transgender people in the country. It’s\u003c/span> one of six designated cultural districts in San Francisco, like the Japantown Cultural Heritage District and the Bayview African American Arts and Cultural District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city recently pledged several million dollars in annual funding to spur economic and cultural development in these districts, with the aim of keeping residents and small businesses from being priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717680\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11717680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/future-site-of-transgender-cultural-center-e1547414631108.jpg\" alt=\"Site of the future Compton's Transgender District Cultural Center on Ellis Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. 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Tautuaa talks about how Fifita helped him acclimate to the island when he first moved there, and how when Fifita can’t think of the right word in English, Tautuaa often translates for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter if there’s trouble, he always steps up for me,” Fifita says proudly. “And I always step up for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664105\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30460_IMG_3069-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After high school, Joe Fifita wants to join the Marines. 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From tales of ghostly apparitions to aristocrats meeting grisly ends, every corner brings another ghoulish story from San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700255\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_102-e1540151451936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd listens to Christian Cagigal telling the story of Mary Ellen Pleasant on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first stop on the tour, at Bush and Octavia, holds a real-life story stranger than any Halloween legend. This unlit corner is said to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a 19th century entrepreneur who once lived in a now-vanished mansion nearby, and who actually planted these eucalyptus trees. Her spirit, Cagigal tells the assembled ghost hunters, is said to summon chills, frighten dogs and even throw nuts from the nearby eucalyptus trees at passers-by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story Cagigal tells our group under those trees is instantly captivating: how Pleasant, a black woman, came to San Francisco in the mid-1800s and defied white society’s constraints and prejudices to not only amass great wealth, but to also use her power to immeasurably advance the cause of civil rights in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, he says, she was also described as a witch, a “voodoo queen” and even a murderer. So who was the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> Mary Ellen Pleasant?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Rather be a Corpse than a Coward”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Her life is so enshrouded in mystery because she was her own spin doctor,” says Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs, who has studied Pleasant’s story for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3.png 1007w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-800x449.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-960x539.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-240x135.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-375x210.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-3-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Pleasant pictured in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1890s \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wrote three autobiographies — but each one contradicts the other on basic facts, such as the year of her birth. We do know that she was born into slavery in Georgia, and was raised in Nantucket, Massachusetts, “in indenture,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There on the East Coast, the young Pleasant became a crucial figure in the civil rights fight, secretly teaming up with abolitionists and rescuing escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. In this world, nothing could ever be as it seemed — and concealment, disguise and duality were weapons in Pleasant’s armory from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That double life included presenting as a white woman when she could. “She was very used to being covert,” says Bibbs. “She often said that words were made to conceal feelings — and that she was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her first husband died, Pleasant took the $45,000 in gold she now had from his estate and arrived by steamer in San Francisco in 1852 — still passing as white. She found a town filled with men come to make their Gold Rush fortunes, far from home and in need of lodging, food and domestic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Pleasant invested her sizable wealth in property, establishing boardinghouses and laundries — anything and everything she correctly thought would “be a niche in San Francisco to make \u003ci>more\u003c/i> money,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant deliberately stayed close to the action in the boardinghouses she ran and later owned, learning a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of private things about the influential men who stayed there. She used them as another kind of currency, not just to rise in society but to further her \u003ci>real\u003c/i> cause: bringing the Underground Railroad out West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque commemorates Mary Ellen Pleasant’s civil rights achievements in Pacific Heights, placed by the San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the wealthy white people of San Francisco society knew her as the white boardinghouse proprietress, San Francisco’s growing black community knew her real identity. She was known as “The Black City Hall” — the place you go to get what you need — who helped black people get jobs on steamers, in white homes and in her own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a century before Rosa Parks, she challenged San Francisco’s segregated transit system in court, winning the right for black people to ride the streetcars without being thrown off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cause,” Pleasant wrote in one of her memoirs, “was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people. And I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Civil War — over a decade after she arrived in the city — Pleasant finally checked the box that said “Black” on the census of 1865. While this undoubtedly caused a stir among the wealthy white people who’d thought her one of their own, Pleasant continued to move in their circles. The tide, however, was about to turn — and a heroine became a villain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“Queen of the Voodoos”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the 1880s, the wild, mud-caked San Francisco that Mary Ellen Pleasant, the capitalist, had carved her way into had itself transformed into a “very much more overtly racist” city, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700602\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg 291w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-240x330.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Mary Ellen Pleasant aged 87. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Public Library History Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, emancipated slaves became convenient scapegoats for the economy’s woes — and as a wealthy older black woman, Pleasant now inspired suspicion, even fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press coined a nickname intended to diminish her power with the racist image it conjured: “Mammy Pleasant.” Unsurprisingly, she loathed it. “It gives me the suspirations,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d always been a figure of fascination in San Francisco, but now whispers grew that she had some otherworldly hold over the wealthy white people she was close to. People like Thomas Bell, her white business partner and friend with whom she shared her vast mansion — along with the wife she’d found for him, Teresa. One headline in the San Francisco Call asked: “Mammy Pleasant: Angel or Arch Fiend in the House of Mystery?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11701128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAC-5932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mansion Mary Ellen Pleasant shared with Thomas and Teresa Bell — the house in which he’d later be found dead. The writing on the back of this photograph in the San Francisco Public Library’s collection reads: “Torn down in 1927. Ghost of Mammy Pleasant.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 1883, Pleasant became entangled in the scandalous trial of Nevada Sen. William Sharon, who was accused of seducing and then abandoning, a young woman, Sarah Althea Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bibbs describes it as the O.J. Simpson trial of its day in how this case obsessed the press and public alike — “reported everywhere, every day” across the nation, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wasn’t on trial herself, but she was the young Hill’s friend — and lawyers for Sharon painted Pleasant as a sinister crone. They claimed she’d used dark forces to manipulate her friend into entrapping a senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than rejecting the rumors, she defied them — encouraged them, even, during the senator’s trial. She carried a voodoo doll in court, claiming she would use it to bring about his death — and die he did, before the trial ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700253\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_100-e1540151423725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Cagigal holds up a photograph of 19th century San Francisco on his Ghost Hunt tour, at Mary Ellen Memorial Park \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While her behavior might strike us now as self-defeating, Pleasant had always employed misdirection to confound expectations and control her narrative. Pleasant’s status as a “voodoo queen” grew, cementing her reputation as a quasi-mystical figure in San Francisco. To the public, voodoo meant blood magic and malevolent intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mary Ellen Pleasant, however, the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> voodoo — vodoun or vodun — was actually her religion from her ancestral homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was born the daughter of a voodoo priestess and the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess from Haiti,” explains Bibbs. She believes there’s strong evidence to suggest that Pleasant had studied in New Orleans with legendary vodoun practitioner Marie Laveau (also spelled elsewhere as Laveaux or LaVeaux) before coming to San Francisco — and learned particularly from Laveau’s emphasis on using one’s power to serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scandal followed scandal. When her business partner, Thomas Bell, was found dead in her mansion, his widow, Teresa, collaborated on a full-page smear piece in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline “The Queen of the Voodoos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1359px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1359\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png 1359w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1020x651.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1200x766.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1180x753.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-960x612.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-240x153.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-375x239.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1359px) 100vw, 1359px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Queen of the Voodoos” article about Mary Ellen Pleasant in the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The press had used the language of the supernatural to describe her for years — but now, they made her into a flat-out monster, accusing her of witchcraft and implying she murdered Bell. This article ignited a public wave against Mary Ellen Pleasant from the powers-that-be, for whom she’d become too powerful, too loud, almost diabolical — fueled by “hate, revenge and racism,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“We Forget Your Story”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s telling who gets a legend — and who gets a ghost story. Mary Ellen Pleasant was demonized in her own lifetime, yet in a system so loaded against a black woman in the public eye, playing with rumor like she did was perhaps the only way to play the game, even if it was ultimately her undoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ellen Pleasant died in 1904 in her 90s, with her fortunes greatly diminished by scandal. Her obituary in the San Francisco Examiner was titled: “Mammy Pleasant Will Work Weird Spells No More.” In her own writings, Teresa Bell defined Pleasant as “a demon from first to last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning the details of her extraordinary life, it’s hard to imagine how Mary Ellen Pleasant isn’t a towering figure in San Francisco’s history. Yet how we’re remembered depends on who’s telling your story. From those newspapers to her early biographers, Pleasant’s life has been so mangled. As Bibbs says: “One could not tell \u003ci>who\u003c/i> she was.” Was she the […] mother of civil rights, or was she a murderess?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_103-e1540151366310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lantern illuminates the sidewalk plaque dedicated to Mary Ellen Pleasant on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or as Christian Cagigal puts it during the San Francisco Ghost Hunt, under those eucalyptus trees Pleasant is said to haunt: “When there’s three versions of your life story, we don’t know what to \u003cem>do\u003c/em> with your life story… and we forget your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps Mary Ellen Pleasant on his ghost hunt, he says, “so we might start to remember.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We do know that she was born into slavery in Georgia, and was raised in Nantucket, Massachusetts, “in indenture,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There on the East Coast, the young Pleasant became a crucial figure in the civil rights fight, secretly teaming up with abolitionists and rescuing escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. In this world, nothing could ever be as it seemed — and concealment, disguise and duality were weapons in Pleasant’s armory from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That double life included presenting as a white woman when she could. “She was very used to being covert,” says Bibbs. “She often said that words were made to conceal feelings — and that she was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33344_DSC_1169-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento writer and performer Susheel Bibbs. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After her first husband died, Pleasant took the $45,000 in gold she now had from his estate and arrived by steamer in San Francisco in 1852 — still passing as white. She found a town filled with men come to make their Gold Rush fortunes, far from home and in need of lodging, food and domestic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Pleasant invested her sizable wealth in property, establishing boardinghouses and laundries — anything and everything she correctly thought would “be a niche in San Francisco to make \u003ci>more\u003c/i> money,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant deliberately stayed close to the action in the boardinghouses she ran and later owned, learning a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of private things about the influential men who stayed there. She used them as another kind of currency, not just to rise in society but to further her \u003ci>real\u003c/i> cause: bringing the Underground Railroad out West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11701133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33247_10062018_AW_GhostStory_80-qut-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque commemorates Mary Ellen Pleasant’s civil rights achievements in Pacific Heights, placed by the San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the wealthy white people of San Francisco society knew her as the white boardinghouse proprietress, San Francisco’s growing black community knew her real identity. She was known as “The Black City Hall” — the place you go to get what you need — who helped black people get jobs on steamers, in white homes and in her own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a century before Rosa Parks, she challenged San Francisco’s segregated transit system in court, winning the right for black people to ride the streetcars without being thrown off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cause,” Pleasant wrote in one of her memoirs, “was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people. And I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Civil War — over a decade after she arrived in the city — Pleasant finally checked the box that said “Black” on the census of 1865. While this undoubtedly caused a stir among the wealthy white people who’d thought her one of their own, Pleasant continued to move in their circles. The tide, however, was about to turn — and a heroine became a villain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“Queen of the Voodoos”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the 1880s, the wild, mud-caked San Francisco that Mary Ellen Pleasant, the capitalist, had carved her way into had itself transformed into a “very much more overtly racist” city, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700602\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997.jpg 291w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAD-2997-240x330.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Mary Ellen Pleasant aged 87. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Public Library History Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the nation, emancipated slaves became convenient scapegoats for the economy’s woes — and as a wealthy older black woman, Pleasant now inspired suspicion, even fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press coined a nickname intended to diminish her power with the racist image it conjured: “Mammy Pleasant.” Unsurprisingly, she loathed it. “It gives me the suspirations,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d always been a figure of fascination in San Francisco, but now whispers grew that she had some otherworldly hold over the wealthy white people she was close to. People like Thomas Bell, her white business partner and friend with whom she shared her vast mansion — along with the wife she’d found for him, Teresa. One headline in the San Francisco Call asked: “Mammy Pleasant: Angel or Arch Fiend in the House of Mystery?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11701128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AAC-5932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mansion Mary Ellen Pleasant shared with Thomas and Teresa Bell — the house in which he’d later be found dead. The writing on the back of this photograph in the San Francisco Public Library’s collection reads: “Torn down in 1927. Ghost of Mammy Pleasant.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 1883, Pleasant became entangled in the scandalous trial of Nevada Sen. William Sharon, who was accused of seducing and then abandoning, a young woman, Sarah Althea Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bibbs describes it as the O.J. Simpson trial of its day in how this case obsessed the press and public alike — “reported everywhere, every day” across the nation, says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant wasn’t on trial herself, but she was the young Hill’s friend — and lawyers for Sharon painted Pleasant as a sinister crone. They claimed she’d used dark forces to manipulate her friend into entrapping a senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than rejecting the rumors, she defied them — encouraged them, even, during the senator’s trial. She carried a voodoo doll in court, claiming she would use it to bring about his death — and die he did, before the trial ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700253\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_100-e1540151423725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Cagigal holds up a photograph of 19th century San Francisco on his Ghost Hunt tour, at Mary Ellen Memorial Park \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While her behavior might strike us now as self-defeating, Pleasant had always employed misdirection to confound expectations and control her narrative. Pleasant’s status as a “voodoo queen” grew, cementing her reputation as a quasi-mystical figure in San Francisco. To the public, voodoo meant blood magic and malevolent intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mary Ellen Pleasant, however, the \u003ci>real\u003c/i> voodoo — vodoun or vodun — was actually her religion from her ancestral homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was born the daughter of a voodoo priestess and the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess from Haiti,” explains Bibbs. She believes there’s strong evidence to suggest that Pleasant had studied in New Orleans with legendary vodoun practitioner Marie Laveau (also spelled elsewhere as Laveaux or LaVeaux) before coming to San Francisco — and learned particularly from Laveau’s emphasis on using one’s power to serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scandal followed scandal. When her business partner, Thomas Bell, was found dead in her mansion, his widow, Teresa, collaborated on a full-page smear piece in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline “The Queen of the Voodoos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1359px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1359\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2.png 1359w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1020x651.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1200x766.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-1180x753.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-960x612.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-240x153.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-375x239.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Chron-2-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1359px) 100vw, 1359px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Queen of the Voodoos” article about Mary Ellen Pleasant in the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The press had used the language of the supernatural to describe her for years — but now, they made her into a flat-out monster, accusing her of witchcraft and implying she murdered Bell. This article ignited a public wave against Mary Ellen Pleasant from the powers-that-be, for whom she’d become too powerful, too loud, almost diabolical — fueled by “hate, revenge and racism,” says Bibbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“We Forget Your Story”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s telling who gets a legend — and who gets a ghost story. Mary Ellen Pleasant was demonized in her own lifetime, yet in a system so loaded against a black woman in the public eye, playing with rumor like she did was perhaps the only way to play the game, even if it was ultimately her undoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ellen Pleasant died in 1904 in her 90s, with her fortunes greatly diminished by scandal. Her obituary in the San Francisco Examiner was titled: “Mammy Pleasant Will Work Weird Spells No More.” In her own writings, Teresa Bell defined Pleasant as “a demon from first to last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning the details of her extraordinary life, it’s hard to imagine how Mary Ellen Pleasant isn’t a towering figure in San Francisco’s history. Yet how we’re remembered depends on who’s telling your story. From those newspapers to her early biographers, Pleasant’s life has been so mangled. As Bibbs says: “One could not tell \u003ci>who\u003c/i> she was.” Was she the […] mother of civil rights, or was she a murderess?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700254\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/10062018_AW_GhostStory_103-e1540151366310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lantern illuminates the sidewalk plaque dedicated to Mary Ellen Pleasant on the San Francisco Ghost Hunt tour \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or as Christian Cagigal puts it during the San Francisco Ghost Hunt, under those eucalyptus trees Pleasant is said to haunt: “When there’s three versions of your life story, we don’t know what to \u003cem>do\u003c/em> with your life story… and we forget your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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