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Title: Chinatown in 1956, views 1-4
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of Chinatown in 1956. The area shown, on North Broadway, was designated New Chinatown and built as a tourist attraction. The original L.A. Chinatown was located around the Plaza and the present site of Union Station. View 1: shows the entranceway into New Chinatown. View 2: closer view of the entranceway into New Chinatown. Pass the entrance, several people are sitting on a bench and a family can be seen walking thru the plaza. View 3: shows a few restaurants and a gift shop in the New Chinatown plaza. View 4: a man wearing a suit, stands before the entranceway to New Chinatown.
Type: image
Format: 4 photographs:b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033498
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
S-002-443.1 4x5; S-002-443.2 4x5; S-002-443.3 4x5; S-002-443.4 4x5; Chinatown.
CARL0000034967
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100230
Subject: Restaurants--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Gift shops--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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