- Title
- Lights of the East, Chinatown on Broadway, Los Angeles
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- Description
- Front entry of Kim Ling Inn restaurant at night; neon signs and illuminated two-tiered pagoda; banners on windows to right and left of open door read: Grand Open Kim Ling Inn; signs above windows read "Chinese Food" and "Family Style" potted plants decorate doorway; shelves and wall clock can be seen through open front door; menus are posted on either side of door.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm.
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- Subject
- Chinese Restaurants--California--Los Angeles; Decoration and ornament, Architectural--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- Kim Ling Inn was owned by Wilbur Quon who also owned the New Temple Meat Company. In March 1942, the L.A. League of Women Voters met in the restaurant to hear Chinese Consul Dr. T.K. Chang, speak on "China Today." The China Society of Southern California met there in June of 1943 to hear eyewitness accounts of the Japanese invasion of China from two exchange prisoners.
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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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