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April 13 - 19, 2001
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Photo by Maurice Ramirez.
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Inside the Outside Lands
A fresh look at the united colors of Richmond
By kevinjames-
gardner
Silent and surreal, the fog creeps in. A low, soft mist spreads across the Richmond District, enveloping the streets and buildings in a cloud of smoky haze. This is a type of fog known as sea fog. Carried from place to place on air currents, it continuously forms. Inhabitants of the district — who hail from all parts of the globe — have come and gone, but the mist remains constant.
“The Richmond has a calmness,” says Alan Oliver, safety network community organizer at Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS). “Maybe it’s the fog, the history of the place, the Asian cultures that emphasize a quieter public face, one of being laid-back.”
Irish, Swiss and Jewish immigrants led the early development of the Richmond, followed by two waves of Russians fleeing a rising Eurasian red tide — Czarist refugees of the Russian revolution in the 1920s, and their kin from northern China and Manchuria during the communist takeover there in the 1940s-1950s. In the 1930s, a small but tightly knit community of Japanese Americans settled in the Inner Richmond, only to be shipped out during the U.S. Relocation Program of World War II. More recently, fresh waves of Russian Jewish emigres have hit the shores of the Richmond, and Chinese, Korean and other Asian communities have flourished.
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