- Title
- Chinatown, Los Angeles, California
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- Creator
- Distributed by Mitock & Sons, Sherman Oaks, California
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- Description
- From Central Plaza looking east onto Broadway through East Gate; restaurant Li-Po at corner left; benches, trees, telephone booths; automobiles parked on street and in parking lot across the street; people strolling and sitting.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Chinese Restaurants--California--Los Angeles; Decoration and ornament, Architectural--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- The original Los Angeles Chinatown began in the late 1800s as a small settlement on Calle De Los Negros, between El Pueblo Plaza and Old Arcadia Street, and expanded east across Alameda Street. Suffering from absentee landlords and a lack of municipal services and code enforcement, the area was in decline when the city forced residents out and demolished it to make way for the new Union Station Terminal. Two new Chinatowns were created: China City, a tourist attraction, complete with rickshaw rides, brainchild of Christine Sterling, founder of Olvera Street; and New Chinatown, a business and residential neighborhood created and funded by the Chinese community under the leadership of Peter Soo Hoo. Both opened to great fanfare in 1938. New Chinatown is framed by two gates, or pailou. East Gate, or the Broadway Gate, was designed by You Chung Hong. A poem composed by Chinese Consul, Honorable T.K. Chang, and placed by Attorney Hong as a tribute to his own and all mothers adorns the gate, which is thus also known as the Gate of Maternal Virtues. New Chinatown is now known as Old Chinatown Plaza.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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