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Seattle's Chinatown Gate

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Colors are a lot brighter in my new neighborhood. The gate was dedicated in 2008 to celebrate the neighborhood’s history.

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Seattle’s Chinatown Gate; King Street and Smith Tower behind

That link also helps understand why “International District” and not just “Chinatown”:

It is perhaps the only area in the continental United States where Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, African Americans, Vietnamese, Koreans, and Cambodians, settled together and built one neighborhood.


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