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Originally Posted by salpytalian
Great photos!
I have some matchbook covers in my personal collection from various places in Chinatown. I'm still getting to scanning all of them.
Golden Pagoda opened in 1941, just three years after “New Chinatown” arrived in Los Angeles. Today, it’s Hop Louie, still serving cocktails and food from it’s original menu! Rumor has it, Marilyn Monroe once dined here, and there’s an original photo of her taken by the owner hanging in the restaurants foyer? Anyone have a shot of that? |
When I was a kid, (1960's) my grandmother loved the "Golden Pagoda" and we always took her there for Mothers Day. My grandmother was born in Ohio in 1880 on a farm and this was probably terribly exotic to her, even though she had been in California since 1910. I loved the "barbecued spareribs" and egg roll. As a child I loved to wander through the shops and toss pennies in the wishing fountain which seemed much bigger then.