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An SF suit maker dressed Filipinos like movie stars but created a style that ended in a race riot

Movie stars and anti-Filipino race riots: The secret history of San Francisco s Macintosh Studios FacebookTwitterEmail A picture of Anita Navalta Bautista s husband Cornelio (right) with two of his cousins in the 1930s.Courtesy of Anita Navalta Bautista Jerry Paular fondly remembered the Filipino farmhands he grew up with. They were so well-groomed and well-dressed, he said, that “you would think they were movie stars.” “They wore suits that were just unbelievable,” Paular, a traveling suit salesman, once recalled. “They would never go to a store and buy a $20 suit and hit the streets. These guys came out looking like movie actors. And yet, they were common laborers.”

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