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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.
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The first Chinese was recorded to be in Los Angeles in 1852. Continuous settlement began in 1857. By 1870, an identifiable "Chinatown" of 200 or so was situated on Calle de Los Negros - Street of the Dark Hued Ones - a short alley 50 feet wide and one block long between El Pueblo Plaza and Old Arcadia Street.
- Not So Ancient History
- A New Train Station Is Proposed
- Midcentury Modernization
- The Community Branches Out
Almost nothing remains of Los Angeles's original Chinatown, which sprung up in the mid-1800s near the city's origins, on Olvera Street. China in the 19th century was in the midst of a population boom, resulting in "land shortages, famine and an increasingly impoverished rural population." Fleeing poverty and political upheaval, Chinese migrants cro...
In 1926, Angelenos were presented with the option of a new train station or "elevated railways" known as an L train. City leaders, the Los Angeles Timesand even famed preacher Aimee Semple McPherson were loudly anti-L and pro-train station — and that's how people voted. It would take more than a decade for the new train station to become a reality....
Chinatown quickly became a destination. In its first year, the neighborhood celebrated the Mid Autumn Moon Festival. According to a Los Angeles Timesarticle, the event attracted 25,000 people for a parade highlighted by a 1,000-foot golden dragon and celebrity guests such as actresses Anna May Wong and Soo Yong. World War II brought the end of the ...
In the latter half of the 20th century, Chinese American communities developed outside of Chinatown, including Irvine, Monterey Park and Alhambra. This was due, in part, to the civil rights victories of that era. It was also a result of Chinatown's small size. The neighborhood measures less than a square mile. Immigrants began bypassing Chinatown. ...
May 16, 2024 · On June 25, 1938, a new Chinatown celebrated its grand opening not far from where the original neighborhood stood. New Chinatown became a significant part of both local and national history - it's the first such neighborhood in the U.S. that was actually owned by Chinese residents. Things to Do | Sports & Events. Jon SooHoo's L.A.
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.
The Chinatown Remembered Project tells the story of a generation of Chinese Americans who came of age in Los Angeles during the 1930s and 1940s. Like others in their generation, young Chinese American men and women lived through the Depression and then served their country valiantly in World War II.
In 1937, the Los Angeles Chinatown Project Association, galvanized by Peter Soo Hoo Sr., raised funds to acquire, design and construct New Chinatown's Central Plaza. Today it is also known as New...
