Chinatown

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Looking east through West Gate onto Gin Ling Way, lined with shops and benches non-illuminated neon sign hanging from gate reads: GinLing Way New Chinatown signage with Chinese characters restaurant sign announcing "60 cent lunch special". On back: "New Chinatown, Los Angeles, has elaborate restaurants and shops in a distinctly Chinese atmosphere such as those on Ginling Way pictured here."The original Los Angeles Chinatown began in the late 1800s as a small settlement on Calle De Los Negros, between El Pueblo Plaza and Old Arcadia Street, and expanded east across Alameda Street. Suffering from absentee landlords and a lack of municipal services and code enforcement, the area was in decline when the city forced residents out and demolished it to make way for the new Union Station Terminal.