Los Angeles - New Chinatown
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There are neither as many Chinese living in Los Angeles as in San Francisco, nor is their quarter (in Block 800 of North Broadway, north of Downtown, and in the side streets) as interesting or as old as Grant Avenue in San Francisco. The Chinese, who could be found in Los Angeles as long ago as the fifties and sixties of the previous century, were initially domiciled in the area where Union Station now stands.
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The center of Chinatown is the Plaza (951 N. Broadway) with restaurants, banks and numerous shops, some of which are built in the pagoda style. Many Vietnamese also live in Chinatown today and Vietnamese shop-signs are to be seen in many shopping centers. The youth of both peoples, judging by clothes and appearance, seem to have become better assimilated into the community than those in San Francisco.
The prosperous Chinese from Taipei and Hong Kong have turned their backs on Chinatown and moved to the suburbs, particularly to Monterey Park and Alhambra (both to the north of the city center), where in the last few years Chinese enclaves, with typical supermarkets, restaurants, bookshops and newsagents, have grown up.
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Gateway in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Chinatown in Los Angeles.
