Nam Yuen restaurant, San Francisco

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“Nam Yuen – Holiday Magazine award winner. The very best in Chinese food in exquisite setting, combining ancient China with the contemporary. Handsome bar. Appetizing lunches. Tantalizing dinners. December 1961”

Nam Yuen was a restaurant on 740 Washington Avenue, in San Francisco’s Chinatown district. Their logo in Brush Script was rendered in outline for the neon sign.

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“A favorite restaurant of Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation, this restaurant closed long ago, but the sign remains.”

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Logo on the menu from July 1964

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In 2008

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1950s matchbook

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