Subject: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Mike Botula reports on a joint session of the Los Angeles City Council and the Board of Directors of the Community Redevelopment Agency. The session is being held to conduct a public hearing on a proposed Chinatown Redevelopment Plan, which includes provisions to increase housing in the area. In the session, several Chinatown residents offer statements of concern that the plan may not meet the critical needs of low and middle-income families and elderly residents in the community. Issues of increased traffic and related public safety problems as a result of the plan are also raised. The clip includes Chinatown street scenes and some segments with only Botula's voiceover (no picture).
Date:: [1980-01-16]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Al Williams of the Los Angeles Police Department explains how the protection racket works, and that it has been successful because the business owners are afraid of gang reprisals against their businesses or families if they contact police. He credits two Chinese officers who live in the community with gathering evidence that has led to the indictments of some gang members and he expects more to follow. Williams also touches on the assimilation problems some Chinese immigrants face that limit their opportunities and may lead them to join gangs. Includes silent footage featuring numerous shots of storefronts in Chinatown’s central plaza.
Date:: [1978-04-14]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Commercial block with a two-story brick building in Chinatown. There are three wooden balconies, one with a sign in Chinese, on the 2nd floor facing the unpaved street. The balcony on the left has the address numbers 410 and 403. A little girl walks on the sidewalk.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: In an alley with brick commercial buildings on either side is an open wooden building. Articles of clothing hang on the left and a man is seated, working, on the right.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: View of a two story brick commercial building on an unpaved street in Chinatown. A woman stands in front of a business with a sign on the awning reading "341 Kim Ling 341." A faded painted sign on the building reads "Branch Store / Johnson & Musser Seed Co."
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Chinese men read paper notices in Chinese posted on a brick commercial building. There are at least 15 notices.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the Lion Dance on an unpaved street during Chinese New Year along with Mexicans and others.
Date:: January 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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