The story
LA's original Chinatown was bulldozed to build Union Station, sealing its remains 14 feet below the tracks.
Everything that was here
- 1880–1933
Old Chinatown (Los Angeles)Historic Neighborhood
LA's original Chinatown was bulldozed to build Union Station, sealing its remains 14 feet below the tracks.
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Los Angeles Old Chinatown
800 North Alameda Street · 22 m away
Italian Hall (IAMLA)
644 North Main Street · 350 m away
Garnier Building
419 North Los Angeles Street · 387 m away
Philippe the Original
1001 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 · 451 m away
Philippe Mathieu opened his first restaurant in 1908, and its claim to inventing the French dip is still disputed by Col
San Antonio Winery
737 Lamar Street · 1.3 km away
Bradbury Building
304 S Broadway · 1.4 km away
A mining millionaire passed over his architect and gave the design of this 1893 building to George Wyman, one of the arc
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