Manhattan's Chinatown is an enclave located in the oldest section of New York City, Manhattan's Lower East Side. For most who reside there, Chinatown serves as the quintessential microcosm. It is a place to do business, buy groceries, and raise families. For many Chinese immigrants, it provides a stepping stone to a perceived better life that may only be achieved through hard work, determination, sacrifice, and assimilation. Chinatown's main sources of income and employment lie in its many restaurants, factories, small shops, and businesses. However, for generations of New Yorkers and visitors, Chinatown represents the very embodiment of exotica. With its ancient tenements, temples, fragrant food aromas, neon signs, colorful sites and sounds, and aromatic curio shops, it provides the ultimate journey of the senses, revealing an energetic and vibrant world. Through vintage postcards, Manhattan's Chinatown chronicles how this community has continually evolved over 150 years.
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Daniel Ostrow has been collecting and researching Chinatown ephemera and history for more than three decades. Mary Sham, a first-generation Chinese American, provided the foreword. Sham has been a teacher in Chinatown for more than 30 years and also served as vice president of education for the Organization for the Chinese American.
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Memories of a Time Long Ago,
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I just received this book and immediately read it from cover to cover. It is a wonderful, extensive, and well-presented collection of ephemera, post cards, photos, drawings, etc., from Manhattan's Chinatown (NYC) of long ago. What a perfect way for this generation to look back and get some insight into the way their ancestors lived and how their community looked. So much of our past gets lost from generation to generation, but now Chinatown's has come alive, and will remain so, in the pages of this book. Kudos to the authors. (Gail S.)
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The Port Arthur Restaurant was established in 1897 and continuously operated for over 85 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mott Street, Pell Street, New York City, Doyers Street, Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant, Port Arthur Restaurant, Canal Street, Rescue Society, United States, Yell Street, Lee's Restaurant, Chinese Theatre, Mulberry Bend Park, San Francisco, Chop Suey, Worth Street, Baxter Street, Chinese Restaurant, Ethel Hing, Joss House Browse Sample Pages:
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The Port Arthur Restaurant was established in 1897 and continuously operated for over 85 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
advertising postcard, restaurant signs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mott Street, Pell Street, New York City, Doyers Street, Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant, Port Arthur Restaurant, Canal Street, Rescue Society, United States, Yell Street, Lee's Restaurant, Chinese Theatre, Mulberry Bend Park, San Francisco, Chop Suey, Worth Street, Baxter Street, Chinese Restaurant, Ethel Hing, Joss House Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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