enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Chinatown, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Los_Angeles

    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.

  3. Chinatown West Gate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_West_Gate

    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.

  4. Old Chinatown, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinatown,_Los_Angeles

    Photo postcard dated between 1898 and 1905: "A street in Chinatown" 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.

  5. Foreign-trade zones of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-trade_zones_of_the...

    1937 poster celebrating the United States' first foreign trade zone, Staten Island In the United States, a foreign-trade zone (FTZ) is a geographical area, in (or adjacent to) a United States port of entry, where commercial merchandise, both domestic and foreign, receives the same Customs treatment it would if it were outside the commerce of the United States.

  6. Wholesale District, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Wholesale_District,_Los_Angeles

    The Wholesale District lies across the middle of this 2009 photograph, above the Los Angeles River and below Downtown Los Angeles. The Wholesale District or Warehouse District in Downtown Los Angeles, California, has no exact boundaries, but at present it lies along the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad lines, which run parallel with Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River. [1]

  7. Owner of California biolab that fueled bio-weapons rumors ...

    www.aol.com/news/owner-california-biolab-fueled...

    The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to ...

  8. Municipal Warehouse No. 1 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_Warehouse_No._1

    Municipal Warehouse No. 1 is a six-story warehouse built in 1917 on the outermost point of land on the main channel at the Port of Los Angeles.It played an important part in the establishment of Los Angeles as a major center of international trade and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the development of the region's international trade and commerce.

  9. Italy seizes Chinese-made military drones destined for Libya

    www.aol.com/news/italy-seizes-chinese-made...

    ROME (Reuters) - Italian authorities intercepted and seized two Chinese-made military drones that were destined for Libya and disguised as wind turbine equipment, Italy's customs police and ...