Down By The Station: Los Angeles Chinatown, 1880-1933

Dust Jacket: Blemishes -- Minor shelf wear on panel edges, barely visible crease on lower-right front panel. Small dent on real panel near the spine (photo).

Book: Blemish -- None. As New Condition

15 Color photographs, pictoral mapped endpapers (photo)

Five Chapters, four Appendices, including Notes.

In 1993, the demolition of the thriving Los Angeles Chinatown of r the constructon of Union Station sealed the remains of this intact community 14 feet below the railroad tracks. The planning and construction of the Metro Rail subway system five decades later included efforts to preserve and protect culturalresources in the area, detailed in this volume. The assemblage of excaveted material objects reflects the import, preparation, and service of food: recreation, health practices; the presence of women and children; rubbish disposal practices; and densities of artifacts illuminate aspects of lifeways not previously recorded, revealing a rich picture of people and life in nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles.

From UCLA Institute of Archeology Wesite: " . . . a fascinating glimpse of a vital part of America's heritage" Mark Michel, American Archaeology, Winter 1997-98.