- Title
- Los Angeles Chinatown
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- Description
- Looking at West Gate and Hill St. from across the street; Hong Kong Gift Shop on right; phone booths inside the gate; partial view of sign for Sincere Imports; traffic light; pedestrians waiting at crosswalk; strollers on Gin Ling Way; trash can.
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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; Gift shops--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 was framed by two gates, or pailou. The West Gate, on North Hill Street opens onto Gin Ling Way and is adorned with a plaque commemorating the part played by the Chinese in building the railroads.
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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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