Walking Tours

Chinatown

Filled Up. Accepting No More Reservations!

Time: 10:00 a.m. - noon
Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Location: 525 Alpine Street, Suite 103, Los Angeles, California 90012 (the Studio for Southern California History)
Cost: This event is free but reservations are required by e-mailing thesocalstudio@gmail.com or calling 213-229-8890.  

Guided by Monica Pelayo this walking tour explores the different generations and re-generations of communities comprising this vibrant and now Chinese neighborhood. This neighborhood also hosted Italian, Croatian, French, Mexican & Vietnamese American communities throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Los Angeles' original Chinatown was razed in 1938 to make room for Union Station. As a result, this Chinatown was a planned community that attempted to reflect the Chinese community that was displaced here. This tour will also discuss Christine Sterling's "New China City" and "lost" history in the neighborhood.

Monica Pelayo is a Phd student in History at the University of Southern California. She is a native Los Angeleno with an avid interest in immigration, the Progressive Movement and urban landscape.