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Philadelphia. City. Philadelphia. ZIP Code. 19107. Area code (s) 215, 267, and 445. Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation supports the area.
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia’s Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle is a 2015 academic book by Kathryn Elizabeth Wilson, published by Temple University Press. It includes the history of Chinatown, Philadelphia . The book documents community resistance against urban renewal plans to destroy parts of Chinatown. [1]
78002442 [ 1] Added to NRHP. June 13, 1978. The Trocadero Theatre (opened as the Arch Street Opera House) is a historic theater located in Chinatown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offered musical comedies, vaudeville, opera, and burlesque. The Trocadero Theatre was refurbished for use as an art house cinema and fine arts theatre in 1970s ...
Image: Philadelphia Councilmember Helen Gym poses for a photograph in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia on July 22, 2022. (Matt Rourke / AP)
Chinatowns are enclaves of Chinese people outside of China. The first Chinatown in the United States was San Francisco's Chinatown in 1848, and many other Chinatowns were established in the 19th century by the Chinese diaspora on the West Coast. By 1875, Chinatowns had emerged in eastern cities such as New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh ( see ...
The Chinatown Friendship Gate History. Between 1882 and 1943, the population of Philadelphia's Chinatown was controlled under Chinese Exclusion Act and Geary Act. In the 1920s, the population was about 1,600, but as the 1960s and 70s approached, Chinatown lost about 26% of its housing and the population went down to around 400 people.
When it did, most of the events held in the Civic Center, including trade shows and the annual Philadelphia Flower Show, moved to the new facility. As a result of the construction of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the Chinatown buildings located on Arch Street, up to the intersection of 13th Street, were demolished. [1]
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