There is a residual 'little Italy' in San Francisco's North Beach. Lots of Italian restaurants and bakeries among the more general fare, and because of rent control, there are probably still more Italian-Americans living there, pound for pound, than in any other specific part of the city. But it is, like so many other US Italian urban enclaves, a shadow of its former self as first-generation immigrants die out and their descendants move to other places. Its attrition has allowed Chinatown to take over a good chunk of the old 'little Italy' .
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