Jeff Chinn, a retired postman in San Francisco, keeps the memory of Bruce Lee alive 50 years after his tragic death on July 20, 1973
SAN FRANCISCO — Jeff Chinn says Bruce Lee saved his life.
Chinn, 62, is a retired mail carrier who serves as a docent in the Museum of the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where he guides tourists through an exhibit dedicated to Lee’s life. Chinn was born in the same Chinatown hospital on Jackson Street that Lee was born in in 1940. They didn’t know each other, but as a Chinese-American growing up in San Francisco, Chinn searched for role models that would help him shed the perception that Asian men were weak.
“It was almost like Bruce Lee was speaking to me, saying, ‘It’s OK Jeff, because I am Chinese and I want you to be proud of your heritage,’” Chinn said. “And I told Bruce Lee, via the poster, I said this is the darkest period of my young life and I’ll really need your help. If you help me, I’ll pay you back one day.Jeff Chinn donated a poster of Bruce Lee to an exhibit on the martial arts con on display at the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum in San Francisco, Calif.
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