The Chinese revolutionary and leader Sun Yat-Sen visited L.A.'s Chinatown in 1904.  They had a banquet for him at the Tuey Far Low restaurant, at Alameda and Marchessault [Source].



Opening reception, 6 September 2008, artist Dean Sameshima, "Numbers II (Ode to Johnny Rio)" Peres Projects, 969 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles.  Photo: Bianca Dorso

See also previous entry, entitled "Wardown Park," which is not in Chinatown but is in Luton.  This week's Post of the Week winner hails from Luton.  I have just learned that the lovely town of Luton, which probably never hosted a banquet for Sun Yat-Sen because he never visited there, but which did acquire its park in 1904, has an airport. 

"You may think you know what you're dealing with but believe me you don't."
"That's what the District Attorney used to tell me in Chinatown."  
- Jake Gittes, Chinatown (1974)

"'Course I'm respectable.  I'm old.  Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable, if they last long enough."
- Noah Cross, Chinatown (1974) Written By Robert Towne.  Directed by Roman Polanski