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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 present-day Chinatown in Los Angeles was founded in the late 1930s as the second Chinatown in the city. Formerly a " Little Italy ," it is presently located along Hill Street, Broadway, and Spring Street near Dodger Stadium in downtown Los Angeles with restaurants, grocers, and tourist-oriented shops and plazas.
Old Chinatown, or original Chinatown, is a retronym that refers to the location of a former Chinese-American ethnic enclave enforced by legal segregation that existed near downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States from the 1860s until the 1930s.
Chinatown's eviction battles point up Los Angeles' affordable housing woes. Now eminent domain, historically used to evict residents, might help save homes.
More than 130 firefighters responded to an apartment building fire in the Chinatown neighborhood that displaced 70 people and injured six. City officials ignored neighbors' warnings in Chinatown.
The gate has 150-year-old camphor wood from China. After being nominated by the Los Angeles Conservancy, the West Gate was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, No. 825. [1] California Governor Frank Merrimack placed a bronze tablet at the site that commemorates Chinese-American contributions to California's growth. [2]
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The Chinatown East Gate (also known as the Gate of Maternal Virtues) is located in Los Angeles' Chinatown neighborhood, in the U.S. state of California. The structure was installed in 1939, one year after the dedication of Central Plaza and the installation of the Chinatown West Gate. It was commissioned by Y.C. Hong to commemorate his mother.