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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
FredH, thanks for sharing your trip to Chinatown with us via your photographs.
The melancholy feeling was already in place way back in the 1980s. I felt this what part of it's charm.
It's nice to see the old 1940s neon still in place, especially on the two souvenir shops you highlighted.
I'm amazed at how cheap lunch is here, $4.75 with tea...in Los Angeles!
As an example, there's a nice chinese restaurant next to where I live here in Lafayette IN and their lunch specials are
$7.50 without complimentary tea.
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ER - If you recall, there is another part of Chinatown across Hill Street. This section looks even more forlorn:
My Photo
Paper lanterns, a large banner, but no people.
You have to shop around for lunch deals. The wife and I ate at a Dim Sum place just down Broadway and spent $24.00. Tea was $1.20 each. Grrr!
Funny story since you live in Lafayette. We know a couple from China who came over here after college. Their son was born here. Last year, they sent him off to Purdue (wants to be a pilot) and the university matched him up in the dorm with a kid straight from China. Couldn't get along with the kid...I guess it was a culture clash.