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Apablasa Street, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles

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Description: View of a Chinese man crossing the street in front of a row of two story-brick attached buildings with balconies in the 300 block of Apablasa Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, with a sign for the "Mon Chong & Co." store at 341 Apablasa Street. Some of the balconies have awnings and decorative fretwork, as well as potted plants. The headquarters of the Bing Kong Tong Society was located at 337 1/2 Apablasa Street.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1915
Call number: photCL_555_01_119
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog

North Los Angeles Street, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles

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View of a row of two-story buildings with balconies in the 500 block of North Los Angeles Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, with signs for "Fook Wo Lung Curio Co." and "Chew Fun & Co. Chinese Herbs" visible and an automobile parked at the street curb. The Hop Sing Tong Society headquarters was located at 520 1/2 N. Los Angeles Street. The buildings face the Los Angeles Plaza (not pictured) and the central building (with three dormer windows) was built for Don Vicente Lugo and known as the Lugo Adobe.

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Los Angeles

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Photographs of Chinatown in Los Angeles (Items 58-132) depict parades and festivities including the first Fiesta de Los Angeles (1894) and the Feast of the Dead in Los Angeles (1902); street scenes including views of people and of businesses, such as the the Los Angeles Hay Market (Items 83-84); a glimpse of the Water Department on Marchessault Street (Item 86); the Mon Chong and Company storefront on Apablasa Street, one with Percival's mother in front (Items 102-103); the Guan Sun Company and Chop Suey Café; views of a parade and of Marchessault Street dated 1929 (Items 123-128); and photographs depicting Chinese graves and a Chinese tomb in the Evergreen Cemetery (Items 129-133).

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333, 335, 337, 339, 341, 343 & 345 Apalabasa St

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View of two story-brick attached buildings with balconies on Apablasa Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. Some of the balconies have awnings and decorative fretwork. Some also have electric lights strung across the balcony and potted plants. There are "For Rent" signs on three of the buildings.

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311, 315, 317 & 319 Apalabasa St

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View of attached brick two-story buildings, with balconies and drying laundry, on Apablasa Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, with automobile in front. Building at left reads Chee Kung Tong Co. 1900, and the windows below read "Hoy Sun Ning Yung Benevolent Association".

photCL 502 (31)

North side Apalabassa St. at jog in street east of Alameda St

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View of two-story attached brick buildings and automobiles on Apablasa Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. The building at left has decorative finishes and awning and reads Chee Kung Tong Co. 1900. Building at right has laundry hanging on balcony.

photCL 502 (30)

Street in Old Chinatown

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View of a street in old Chinatown, Los Angeles.

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Apablasa Street, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles

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