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Entrance to Ginling Way, Chinatown on Broadway, Los Angeles

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Entrance to Ginling Way, Chinatown on Broadway, Los Angeles

Physical description: 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Collection Location: Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Description: Corner of Central Plaza showing Tuey Far Low, GinLing Gifts and Forbidden Plaza; trees; benches.
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. Central Plaza is also known as Peter Soo Hoo 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
Language: eng
Publisher: Quillen
Type: Postcards
Digital Identifier: LML_MS-042-002830001
Object Identifier: LML_MS-042-00283
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: Entrance to Ginling Way, Chinatown on Broadway, Los Angeles
Date Range: 1945-1950
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/4f39e0ce-c48e-4ea7-b473-e1ab865d503b/manifest

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