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Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded in 2009 as an international expansion of the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate. Gabe Sapolsky , former head booker of Ring of Honor , served as the promotion's Vice President.
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Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling, often referred to simply as...
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Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling, often referred to simply as Dragongate or Dragon Gate (ドラゴンゲート, Doragongēto ), is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded and headquartered in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.
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Temporary gates in San Francisco
The Chinese pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco featured a temporary paifang in 1915. A temporary "Imperial Dragon Gate" was erected across Grant at Clay for the 1941 Rice Bowl Party, a celebration and parade to raise funds for war relief in China. Rice Bowl fundraisers had previously been held in 1938 and 1940. Several temporary "victory arches" were erected in March 1943 to welcome Soong Mei-lingto Chinatown.
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In 1953, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce sponsored a bilingual essay contest on how to improve Chinatown business, in the wake of an U.S. embargo on mainland China imports after the People's Republic of China entered the Korean conflict. The winner of the English division, Charles L. Leong, suggested in his essay, among many things, the erection of an authentic archway to Chinatown at Bush and Grant.A later report from 1963 proposing general plans for the downtown area noted that "north of Bu...
Design contest
In 1967 Mayor John F. Shelley, who had succeeded Christopher, decided to spur interest by sponsoring a design competition with a budget of $70,000, open to architects of Chinese descent. The contest was won by a team of three Chinese-Americans, architect Clayton Lee of San Mateo, with landscape architects Melvin H. Lee and Joseph Yee,who were inspired by Chinese village architecture of ceremonial gates. There were more than twenty entrants in the contest, judged by a jury of five architects:...
The Dragon Gate, with its inscription by Sun Yat-sen, has been described as the Republic of China (Taiwan) government's "symbolic claim to Chinatown", before the People's Republic of China gained more influence in Chinatown following Nixon's 1972 visit to Chinaand further normalization of US-China relations. Like most Chinese ceremonial gates, the ...
Davis, Chelsea (January 2016). "Episode 192: Pagodas and Dragon Gates". 99% Invisible. Retrieved 11 March 2018.Quan, Jing (1994). San Francisco's Chinatown--A history of architecture and urban planning (Master of Architecture thesis). University of Arizona. pp. 115–116. hdl:10150/555369.Das Drachentor (englisch Dragon Gate auch Chinatown Gateway) ist ein Tor am Eingang zum Stadtteil Chinatown in San Francisco, Kalifornien
Dragon Gate USA was the sister promotion to Dragon Gate and was based primarily in the United States. It was developed as part of a continuing effort by Dragon Gate to expand outside of Japan and into other countries.
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Erste Anlaufstelle für die meisten Besucher ist dabei das Dragon Gate, das Eingangstor zum Viertel, das sich an der Kreuzung von Grant Avenue und Bush Street befindet. Es erfüllt als einziges Tor in ganz Nordamerika die chinesischen Ansprüche an einen solchen Eingang, was es – neben der tollen Architektur – noch zusätzlich sehenswert macht.
Die Chinatown von San Francisco zählt zu den bekanntesten Sehenswürdigkeiten der Stadt. Der Stadtteil reicht im Westen bis zur Powell Street und bis zum Nob Hill, im Osten bis zur Kearny Street, im Norden bis zum North Beach. Das Dragon Gate ist der offizielle Zugang zu diesem 24 Häuserblöcke umfassenden Viertel mit seiner ...
