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 stree...
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