Comments on: A little San Francisco Civic Center history

By: rik

rik — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:34:07 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks the City could only improve with a redoubled opium trade?

By: nico

nico — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:51:22 +0000

Nowadays anything related to the old opium trade is highly collectible, so in certain antiquities circles this is tantamount to a book burning. This is a fascinating subject for me in a couple respects. First, there's the tea-for-opium trade that the British Empire set up in China to keep the balance of trade moving in their favor (just good business, of course). Secondly, one of my favorite automatons at the Musee Mechanique is the Opium Den, replete with skeleton in the closet and a dragon that peeks its head in through a window.

By: cristina

cristina — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:59:02 +0000

Wow, that’s some amazing footage. I do wonder about the wisdom of standing next to a burning pile of opium pipes.

By: A little Asian Art Museum History « Tenderblog

A little Asian Art Museum History « Tenderblog — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:21:52 +0000

[...] blog is mostly about their exhibits, but one of their latest posts on the history of the Museum caught our attention: One of the first questions I get when people [...]

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:58:17 +0000

that there’s a lot of opium pipes…