Chinatown gate
is really Dragon Gate, Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The gate at the start of Grant Avenue leads into Chinatown in Driver: San Francisco, with green-tiled roofs over the street. In VortexStory's comparison you can see that the game's version is simplified, and its sign reads 旧金山 (Old Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for San Francisco) instead of the real motto.
The real place
The Dragon Gate at Grant Avenue and Bush Street was built in 1970 to a design by Clayton Lee. Its sign carries the words 天下為公, 'all under heaven is for the good of the people', a phrase associated with Sun Yat-sen.
Visiting
Walk through the gate and up Grant Avenue, the oldest street in San Francisco, then turn off into the side alleys for dim sum and tea shops. The streets are liveliest in the morning, and at Chinese New Year the city holds a big parade nearby.
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