Chinatown East and West Gates
Chinatown East Gate and Chinatown West Gate are historic entrance gates located in Los Angeles's Chinatown neighborhood in California. Built in the late 1930s, they were declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in 2005.Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Monument
- Description: gates in Los Angeles, California, U.S
- Also known as: “Chinatown East Gate”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chinatown station and Statue of Bruce Lee.
Chinatown station
Railway station
Chinatown station is an elevated light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located along Spring Street above College Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, just north of Downtown Los Angeles. Chinatown station is situated 650 feet southeast of Chinatown East and West Gates.
Statue of Bruce Lee
Work of art
Photo: peter boy12qq12, CC BY 3.0.
A statue of Bruce Lee is located in Chinatown, Los Angeles, commemorating the martial artist of the same name.
Chavez Ravine
Stadium
Photo: Frederick Dennstedt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baseball has been considered America's pastime for over a century and today remains one of the biggest sports in the country. Baseball is played at a number of amateur levels, from Little League to High School to College, and professional leagues range from the lowest Minor Leagues to Major League Baseball. Chavez Ravine is situated 3,200 feet north of Chinatown East and West Gates.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown and Naud Junction.
Chinatown
Suburb
Photo: J3ff, Public domain.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938.
Naud Junction
Locality
Naud Junction was an area in northern Downtown Los Angeles, California. It was located at the junction of Main Street and Alameda Street, where Southern Pacific Railroad trains veered off Alameda to tracks along Alhambra Avenue and the Los Angeles River.
Civic Center
Quarter
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, and a complex of city, county, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
Chinatown East and West Gates
- Categories: group of structures or buildings and historic site
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.06531° or 34° 3′ 55″ northLongitude
-118.23698° or 118° 14′ 13″ westElevation
338 feet (103 metres)Inception
1939Height
26 feet (7.8 metres)Open location code
85633Q87+46OpenStreetMap ID
way 429320448OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=ceremonial_gateWikidata ID
Q113484360
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Chinese Free Masons and Seven Star Cavern Wishing Well.
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