Episode 15: Forget It (The Chinatown Story)

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Exterior view of Tyrus Wong's Dragon's Den Chinese Foods Restaurant, located in Old Chinatown. A sign at the top of the building reads "Fook Wo Lung Curio Co." Another sign advertises a sale of Chinese merchandise from the last of Old Chinatown, due to need to vacate premises. Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

It’s Chinatown. Take a non-offensive because they actually had them rickshaw ride through the atrocious history of old Chinatown and the Chinese community of Los Angeles all the way up to the present day new Chinatown or, as you know it, Chinatown. We go over the bad days of Old Chinatown, the unforgivable Chinese massacre, the dueling New Chinatown and China City, the many laws set to keep the Chinese community down, which spawned the endlessly internal support that the community used to flourish. Listen to the early days of Chinese immigrants to the city and the creation of China City and then Chinatown.