["Chinatown Today" mural by Alan Okada on Pike Street.]
1978
["Chinatown Today" mural by Alan Okada on Pike Street.]
"Chinatown Today," a 1973 mural by Alan Okada, viewed from Pike Street.; ca. 1978.
Okada's mural was one of several produced by the City Arts Workshop, a community organization promoting the representation of the neighborhood's communities of color through the arts, especially murals.
"Chinatown Today," appeared on the eastern wall of No. 107 East Broadway, above a vacant lot along Pike Street. After Edmund Vincent Gillon's photo, the single-story Hong Kong Supermarket opened on this lot. In May 2009, a fire at the supermarket caused heavy damage to the buildings abutting this corner, leading to the demolition of No. 107. By then, however, Okada's mural had been painted over.