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Bruce Lee’s Birth At San Francisco Chinese Hospital To Honored With Plaque
CBS San Francisco ^ | August 16, 2017

Posted on 08/30/2017 4:18:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The late San Francisco native Bruce Lee was honored Wednesday afternoon with a plaque at the Chinatown Hospital where he was born, presented by the makers of a new movie about him. Watch the preview above.

Presented by director George Nolfi and actor Phillip Ng, who is set to play Lee in “Birth of the Dragon,” the plaque commemorates Lee’s birth at Chinese Hospital in 1940.

It was presented during a 3:00pm ceremony in front of the hospital at 845 Jackson Street.

The film, set to open nationwide on August 25th, will be set in 1960’s San Francisco and is inspired by a showdown between the young Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man.

Chinese Hospital is a non-profit facility catering to Chinatown’s multicultural, multilingual community, with origins dating back to 1899.

The hospital celebrated the opening of a new 88-bed Patient Tower, replacing an original 1925 building, in April 2016.

Bruce Lee in “Enter The Dragon” (credit: Warner Bros) Lee, who went on to have an influential but brief film career, died in 1973 at the age of 32 in Hong Kong.


TOPICS: Local News; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: brucelee; martialarts; sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 08/30/2017 4:18:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Lee? Isn’t that racist?


2 posted on 08/30/2017 4:20:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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>>Lee? Isn’t that racist?<<

Yep. We can’t have anything named “Lee.”

Buncha damned racists...


3 posted on 08/30/2017 4:21:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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To: nickcarraway

Tear down that plaque!
It is not fair to Chuck Norris..... : )


4 posted on 08/30/2017 4:21:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: nickcarraway

He’d have been a lot better actor if he had lost the beard and not ordered Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. His agent warned him about that.


5 posted on 08/30/2017 4:23:46 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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You would think the hospital that Obama claims he was born at would want to memorialize his birth with a plaque..........


6 posted on 08/30/2017 4:25:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: nickcarraway
Real Mandarin name: Lǐ Zhènfān
7 posted on 08/30/2017 4:27:25 PM PDT by EEGator
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It has since been razed by Ethiopians...


8 posted on 08/30/2017 4:28:36 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

CHUCK NORRIS IS BORN AND GETTING HIS FIRST SPANKING.

9 posted on 08/30/2017 4:29:22 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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What’s with Chinese Hospital?? Isn’t that discrimination??

Can you imagine any city with a Negro Hospital which dates its history back to the old days?? As long as we are so focused on all this, I think this is worthy of discussion.


10 posted on 08/30/2017 4:37:28 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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a fresh new monument to fake hollywood globalist violence, to replace any stains of attempts to Rebel excess taxation as the Southern States did


11 posted on 08/30/2017 4:38:40 PM PDT by KTM rider
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I cannot think of anything more inane.


12 posted on 08/30/2017 4:38:51 PM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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13 posted on 08/30/2017 4:42:42 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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14 posted on 08/30/2017 4:44:28 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They had rules segregating the Chinese at one time.


15 posted on 08/30/2017 4:52:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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"They had rules segregating the Chinese at one time."

This is pretty far off subject but the mention of "segregation" reminds me of the story. Sammy Davis Jr was on Johnny Carson's show and mentioned that when he first started playing in Las Vegas he was allowed to perform. But then after he was finished he had to drive to another part of town to stay because blacks weren't allowed in the big hotel/casinos. Poor Sammy, he died the same day as Jim Henson and got second billing in the obits.

16 posted on 08/30/2017 4:58:53 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

There is a Chuck Norris Grill in Reykjavik.


17 posted on 08/30/2017 5:03:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Tired of the Bruce Lee myth . No documented footage of him ever being in a fight . When asked if he would fight any of the top full-contact karate guys of his time, Lee always mumbled something about not being ready, or that he was working on some new technique. His acting sucked. And on and on ...


18 posted on 08/30/2017 5:05:32 PM PDT by sushiman (i)
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People awen't saying his name cowectwy. It should be pwonounced:
Bwuce Wee
Weelwy.
19 posted on 08/30/2017 5:34:28 PM PDT by nonsporting
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Rumor is Lee died when 4 Hells Angels surrounded him with chains to see if he could really fight. Turned out he couldn’t.


20 posted on 08/30/2017 5:59:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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