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["Chinatown Today" mural by Alan Okada on Pike Street.]

1978

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["Chinatown Today" mural by Alan Okada on Pike Street.]

IMAGE DATE1978
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"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.

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