- Title
- New Chinatown, Los Angeles, California
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- Creator
- Mills, David M.; Natural Color by Mike Roberts, Berkeley, California
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- Description
- In the darkness, the East Gate is colorfully illuminated in neon. Sign reads:"Gateway New Chinatown."
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--California--Los Angeles; Neon signs--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 plaque whose four Chinese characters translate as "Cooperate to Achieve" was composed by Chinese Consul, Honorable T.K. Chang, and placed by Attorney Hong as a tribute to his own and all mothers. The gate is thus also known as the Gate of Maternal Virtues. The East Gate was refit in 1985 as part of a Chinatown beautification and rehabilitation project.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type Value
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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