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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.

Chinatown

94 m (308 ft)

UTC-7 (PDT)

90012

Broadway

to the west and northwest, Beaudry and Figueroa streets and the greater neighborhood

Echo Park

Los Angeles State Historic Park

on the south, and the Civic Center and Los Angeles Plaza historic districts of Downtown Los Angeles

Cesar Chavez Avenue

According to Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA), borders of (the current) Chinatown neighborhood are:[5][6][7]

Economy[edit]

Retail[edit]

Small, specialized grocery stores are important to the aging population but few remain as gentrification impacts the neighborhood.[29] The Chinese-Vietnamese residents own many bazaars. The stores sell products such as soap, toys, clothes, music CDs at low prices. Several restaurants in Chinatown serve mainly Cantonese cuisine but there are also various Asian cuisine restaurants such as Teochew Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Thai, which reflects the diverse character of Chinatown. Few boba cafes have opened in Chinatown, but a large number are to be found in the Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley.


Dynasty Center, Saigon Plaza, and the Chinatown Phuoc Loc Tho Center feature many Vietnamese-style bazaars with people engaged in bargain shopping for items such as clothing, toys, Chinese-language CDs, pets, household items, funerary products, and so on. Its entrepreneurs are ethnic Chinese from Vietnam.


There are over 20 art galleries to see, mostly featuring non-Chinese modern art, with works from up and coming artists in all types of media.[11]

also known as the Cornfield,[41] consists of a long open space between Spring Street and the tracks of the Metro A Line.

Los Angeles State Historic Park

Alpine Recreation Center, at 817 Yale Street, has a combined and multipurpose room with a capacity of 250. Two indoor gymnasiums have capacities of 450 each. There are also basketball courts (lighted/indoor/outdoor), a children's play area and volleyball courts (lighted).

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Bonnie Tsui, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4165-5723-4.

American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods

China Blues, Eio Books 2012, ISBN 0-9759255-7-1. Contains detailed history of Chinese immigration to California and other historical information relating to Chinatown. Also, how the Chinese were treated in California.

Ki Longfellow

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(天后宮) located in Los Angeles's Chinatown

Thien Hau Temple

(1847–1889), 19th Century property owner[60]

Cayetano Apablasa

(1927-2009), architect

Helen Liu Fong

(1898–1977), attorney, community leader[61]

You Chung Hong

animator, artist and actor[62]

Milton Quon

(Chinese: 李小龍) (1940 – 1973), actor, whose statue is located at Central Plaza[14]

Bruce Lee

(Chinese: 吳漢潤) (1940–1996), actor[63][64]

Haing S. Ngor

(1899–1999), "Mama Quon," chef at Quon Bros. Grand Star Restaurant

Yiu Hai Seto Quon

author[65]

Lisa See

(ca. 1858–1893), liquor and wine dealer, member of the Los Angeles Common Council[66][67]

Otto G. Weyse

(1910–2016), artist

Tyrus Wong

(1915-2012), businessman and leader in the Chinese-American community[68]

Wilbur Woo

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Chinatown has served as the setting for many Hollywood films. The conclusion of the film Chinatown was filmed on Spring Street.[54] The movie Rush Hour was filmed on location in Chinatown.[55]

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