Mirador viewer

About this item

Current item

New Chinatown

Resource

LML_MS-042-002560001

New Chinatown

Physical description: 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Collection Location: Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Description: Northeast corner of Central Plaza; Tuey Far Low restaurant; Ginling Gifts; brick patio and benches; sign on awning of Ginling Gifts reads:"Chinaware" partial view of restaurant to right of Ginling Gifts.
Note: When the original Chinatown was demolished to make way for Union Terminal, two projects replaced it. One, China City, was the brainchild of Christine Sterling, founder of Olvera Street. She promoted the recreation of an old-style walled Chinese street that would help relocate displaced Chinese shops while serving as an exotic tourist destination, complete with rickshaw rides. Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille donated settings, costumes and property from the 1937 film, The Good Earth. Bounded by Ord, N. Spring, Macy, and North Main, China City opened in June, 1938. Much of the original was destroyed by fire. Together with New Chinatown, the China City area ultimately became part of the larger neighborhood of Chinatown. New Chinatown has come to be known as Old Chinatown Plaza. Tuey Far Low, first located in old Chinatown on Alameda and Marchessault, was the site of a fundraising banquet in the early 1900s in support of Sun Yat-Sen's fight for a Chinese republic. On April 22nd, 1937, Peter Soo Hoo, Herbert Lapham and others met there to form a corporation to build New Chinatown. Tuey Far Low reopened on Sun Mun Way in the Central Plaza in 1938
Transcription: On back:"Art and Gift shops. Herb and spice shops. Oriental nightclubs and restaurants comprise the buildings of Chinatown, following the traditional style of Oriental architecture."
Language: eng
Publisher: 13561 1/2 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, Calif.: Mitock & Sons
Type: Postcards
Digital Identifier: LML_MS-042-002560001
Object Identifier: LML_MS-042-00256
Geographic Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject: Chinese Restaurants--California--Los Angeles; Decoration and ornament, Architectural--California--Los Angeles; Gift shops--California--Los Angeles;
Title: New Chinatown
Date Range: circa 1960
Source: Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Rights: https://library.lmu.edu/archivesandspecialcollections/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/

IIIF manifest: https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/lmudigitalcollections/iiif/00d37a0d-ea59-4031-8de3-f381481868da/manifest

1 of 1 • New Chinatown