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Since I have two good Chinatowns near me (SF and Oakland) I’m always shocked by the desolate and abandoned downtown Chinatowns of Portland and LA.
I know people moved elsewhere, I do quite like the fact that downtown SF and Oakland have active Chinatowns that are still home to incoming immigrants today. (Conditions could be better, but it’s hard to displace the deep sense of community no matter how many times past racist mayors tried)
Basically any time you’re on the west coast USA and read ‘there used to be an active Chinese settlement here’ the next part is usually ‘it mysteriously burned down we never figured out why wink’
@skinnylatte If you can make it to the Wing Luke museum in Seattle, it's a community history museum in the Chinatown / International District. https://www.wingluke.org/
I enjoyed the permanent exhibits on Seattle's Asian American history and the temporary exhibits like the Auntie Sewing Society for COVID safety mutual aid.
Oh and if you like podcasts, "Ten Thousand Things", locally produced, is along the same theme as the Wing Luke. The episode titled "East Kong Yick Building" is about the founding of the Wing Luke museum. https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit ("The Blue Suit" was the original podcast title, because Shin Yu Pai titled each episode for a "thing" which the episode focused on)
