Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Boundary map as drawn by the Los Angeles Times on a CC-by-SA background. Note at bottom right of map on the L.A. Times website noted above says "CC-by-SA" (which gives permission to use the map).
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.
Chung King Road, along with Chung King Court containing a water fountain in its center, is a pedestrian street complex in the northwest corner of Chinatown, Los Angeles, United States. This street is a part of "New Chinatown", built in the 1930s and 1940s, and was the location of mostly Chinese specialty shops, importers of Chinese art objects ...
Chinatowns are shrinking. It’s happening everywhere in America—from Philadelphia to San Francisco, where I reside. San Francisco is home to the first and largest Chinatown in the country, but ...
Cathedral High School (Los Angeles) Chinatown (1974 film) Chinatown East Gate; Chinatown Gateway Monument; Chinatown station (Los Angeles Metro) Chinatown West Gate; Chinese American Museum; Chinese Historical Society of Southern California; Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871; Chung King Road; Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and ...
At 419 N. Los Angeles Street, at the northwest corner of Arcadia, is the Garnier Building, built in 1890, part of the Los Angeles' original Chinatown. The southern portion of the building was demolished in the 1950s to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. The Chinese American Museum is now located in the Garnier Building.
As the neighborhood gentrifies and Chinese residents grow older and fewer, the clubs remain a vital social glue.
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.