Place
Los Angeles Union Station
800 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Grand nineteen thirties rail terminal blending Mission Revival and Art Deco, built atop a displaced historic neighborhood.
This guide to Los Angeles Union Station starts at its grand 1939 opening parade, and a quieter protest nearby, where seven elderly Chinese American men carried a sign reminding the crowd who actually built the railroads. It traces how this Mission Revival and Art Deco terminal rose directly on top of Old Chinatown, a neighborhood of some three thousand people razed after a 1926 vote for the station. Voters approved the station in 1926, and by 1933 the wrecking balls had already arrived.
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