The Golden Dragon massacre: A bloody rampage in the heart of 1970s San Francisco
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Interior of the Golden Dragon Restaurant, 1977.Terry Schmidt
It started with a dispute over illegal firework sales and ended with a rampage in a San Francisco restaurant that in under 60 seconds left five innocent bystanders dead, and 11 injured.
Here s the story of 1977 s Golden Dragon Massacre and the Chinatown underground war between two rival street gangs, the Joe Boys and the Wah Ching, that led three teenage shooters to carry out one of the worst mass murders in San Francisco history.
San Francisco in 70s was a bloody, violent city. So many high profile crimes occurred during that period that a gang-fueled bloodbath in the middle of Chinatown is often a footnote to the chaos.