Fresno’s Old and New Shanghai Cafes

The Old Shanghai Cafe stood at 1405 Kern Street in Fresno. This ad is from Christmas 1935 and the place was still in operation a decade later advertising in the 1946 edition of the California Police Officers Journal. Now, I just found the ad, I’m afraid I don’t know Fresno at all. Still, it did have a Chinatown – Tulare Street was the heart of it along with G Street, F Street, China Alley and Kern Street. Competitive too it seems – Johnnie Gee had the Old Shanghai Cafe and round on Tulare was the New Shanghai Cafe (might be the same folk owning them though) and plenty more Chinese restaurants too…..