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Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
The Chinatown Handy Guide was one of the early Chinatown tour books published by a Chinese American author and recorded in the World Catalog. [1] It was published in four different geographic editions tailored to the largest established Chinatowns in America's biggest cities: [2] Chinatown Handy Guide New York, [3] Chinatown Handy Guide Chicago, [4] Chinatown Handy Guide San Francisco [5] and ...
CHSSC has published several books. Duty & Honor was published in 1998, celebrating Chinese American World War II veterans, [9] and Portraits of Pride I (2004) & II (2012), [10] which are collections of the biographies of high achieving but little known Chinese Americans.
As the neighborhood gentrifies and Chinese residents grow older and fewer, the clubs remain a vital social glue.
Entryway to Los Angeles Chinatown, facing northwest on Broadway Avenue and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. Whereas a few Chinatowns, notably the ones in Manhattan and Chicago, have been experiencing population growth and urban renewal, many others (such as San Francisco, Houston and Vancouver) have been facing urban decay over the years.
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco (archived) (In Simplified Chinese) 1,000-foot dragon travels through Los Angeles' Chinatown, August 10, 1938, in the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch: 409 W. Olympic Blvd. Downtown Los Angeles: Original Los Angeles branch building of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco built in 1929; designed by The Parkinsons in a Moderne style LAHCM 1184: Million Dollar Theater: LAHCM July 2, 2019: 307 S. Broadway: Broadway Theater District
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".