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Wendy Horowitz, May 20, 2024
Photographer Harry Quillen loved the circus, and during the 1940s, he enthusiastically captured the light-hearted spirit of the traveling show with his large format camera.
Vi Thục Hà, May 17, 2024
Long-time visitors of Chinatown will be very familiar with the storefront with Sing Song, a Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) drawn logo of a bashful little boy in a traditional Chinese haircut with a robe holding a box behind his back
Glen Creason, March 13, 2019
Chinatown in Los Angeles has been demeaned and misunderstood for about a century and a half.
Kelly Wallace, March 14, 2019
The Big Read this year is The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu.
![New Year lion in New Chinatown, [ca 1940s]. Harry Quillen Collection New Year lion in New Chinatown](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2024-05/harry-quillen-header.jpg?itok=TZKdcwVo)

![Close up of a Junior League tourist map showing a festive looking Chinatown, [ca.1980] The Junior League created this tourist map in 1980 showing a festive looking Chinatown](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2021-04/ctmapheader.jpg?itok=YIkWp-Fb)
![Drawing of a scene from Chinatown, Los Angeles, from the book: Eine Blume aus dem Goldenen Lande; oder, Los Angeles, by Archuke Ludwig Salvador, [1878]. Security Pacific National Bank Collection Drawing of a scene from Chinatown, Los Angeles](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2025-08/chinatownheader.png?itok=WNbiQkry)