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Chinatown and El Pueblo N BROADWAY 1 4 110 2 COLLEGE 3 N SPRING Chinatown ALPINE N MAIN 5 CESAR CHAVEZ N HILL N BROADWAY VIGNES ORD10 6 101 8 CESAR CHAVEZ SPRING Union L Chinatown TEMPLE A MAIN 7 Station and El Pueblo AMEDA 9 Inspired by Heart of LA W 1 ST 1 6 Phoenix Bakery Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial W 3RD2 7 Chinatown Central Plaza El Pueblo de Los Angeles 3 Brought to you by: Little Joe’s Restaurant / Blossom Plaza Historical Monument 4 8 Chinatown West Plaza América Tropical 5 9 Far East Plaza Union Station 10 Philippe The Original Chinatown and El Pueblo 1 4 8 Phoenix Bakery Chinatown West Plaza América Tropical 969 N. Broadway Chung King Ct. and Hill St. 125 Paseo De La Plaza Founded in 1938 by the Chan family (who West Plaza, built in the late 1940s, houses Painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros in still run it) to make traditional Chinese businesses on the ground floor and 1932 on the Italian Hall in El Pueblo, pastries like sticky sugar butterflies and residences upstairs. The plaza is also this mural depicts an indigenous person, wintermelon cakes, as well as western home to Chung King Road, a small crucified on a double cross beneath sweets, this beloved bakery’s signature corridor lined with art galleries and studios an American eagle. The controversial product is its strawberry cream cake. interspersed among the curio shops. mural was covered with white paint Invented by Lun Chan in the 1940s, that same year, but a restoration by the whipped cream cake with fresh the Getty Conservation Institute was 5 strawberries and almonds has become Far East Plaza completed in 2012. The mural typically a staple of birthdays, weddings, and 727 N. Broadway can be seen from a viewing platform. celebrations across the city. To meet Opened in 1976, today this plaza demand, the popular bakery expanded remains an outpost for good eats. 9 Union Station to its current location in 1977. Historic restaurants here were among 800 N. Alameda St. the first to introduce foods like Built in 1939, LA Union Station is a 2 dumplings, Chinese BBQ, and pho to Chinatown Central Plaza Chinatown, including the first Ten Ren combination of Spanish Colonial 947 N. Broadway Tea shop, which is still in operation. Revival and Art deco styles. In 2014, Walk through the East Gate, a traditional the building underwent a restoration to commemorate its 75th anniversary. pailou, and enter the centerpiece of 6 1938’s New Chinatown, where many Fort Moore Pioneer Throughout the building and grounds, cultural festivities occur. Along the Memorial a diverse range of site-specific artwork pedestrian streets are curio stores, 451 N. Hill St. is available for public view, along with changing art exhibitions. antique shops, art galleries, restaurants Known historically as Fort Hill, this site Visit: unionstationla.com/artwork and fortune tellers. All of the funding served as a military garrison during to learn more. for New Chinatown was from Chinese the Mexican-American War. The fort’s American investors, some of whom were namesake hill, which once stretched displaced by the construction of Union 10 from Cesar Chavez Ave. to Temple St., Philippe The Original Station in what was Old Chinatown in was carved back—first in 1930 to expand 1001 N. Alameda St. the 1930s. Be sure to toss coins in the Spring St., and then for the development Home to the Original French Dip, wishing well (modeled on the Seven Star of the Hollywood Freeway. The fort is Caverns in Guangdong Province). Philippe’s has been located in now memorialized by a wide waterfall Los Angeles since 1908, and in its and the largest bas-relief military current location since 1951. Fun fact: 3 Little Joe’s Restaurant / monument in the United States. The price of a cup of coffee remained Blossom Plaza a nickel until 1977, when it was increased 7 904 N. Broadway El Pueblo de Los Angeles 100%, to a dime. It was more recently increased to $1.30 a cup. Before this area became Chinatown, Historical Monument it was Little Italy, and a beloved Italian Between Cesar Chavez Ave. and Main, restaurant occupied this site from 1927 Los Angeles, Arcadia, and New High Sts. until 1998. Popular with Hollywood stars This is the city’s birthplace, the site of the in the 1940s, Little Joe’s became an pueblo established in 1781 that would informal clubhouse for the Dodgers after become Los Angeles. Historically, the they moved west. The restaurant was plaza here has always been the center of demolished in 2014 to build Blossom the city, whether it was under Spanish, Plaza, a mixed-use development that Mexican, or American rule. Surrounding links Broadway to the Chinatown Metro it are 27 historic buildings and Olvera Share your station. During that construction, a Street, the world-famous outdoor CicLAvia segment of the Zanja Madre (the original Mexican marketplace. Other important aqueduct that brought water to the sites here include the Chinese American explorations! Pueblo de Los Angeles) was unearthed. Museum, Avila Adobe (LA’s oldest Bricks in the walkway of the plaza mark residence) and the Italian Hall. @CicLAvia ciclavia.org the Zanja’s location..
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