America's Chinatown Neighborhood | From East to West Coast

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  • Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
  • Welcome to the History of the Chinatown Neighborhood! Across America the identity of Chinatown has transformed and the old Chinatown Neighborhood has slowly changed. A Neighborhood spanning decades has seen an increase in tourism and rising cost of living. This video explores the history, architecture, community, urban renewal, growth, and decline of the Chinatown Neighborhood.
    On this trip we'll travel to 6 cities that are important to the Chinatown Neighborhood and its story in America. The tour Begins with the History of Chinatown in the streets of San Francisco, then exploring the Architecture in Los Angeles. We'll journey to the east coast to experience the large Chinatown Neighborhood of Boston and New York City as they integrate growth and community, followed by the decline of the Chinatown Neighborhood due to Urban Renewal in Washington D.C. The final stop in this tour will be the Save Chinatown Movement in Philadelphia. So join me On tour To discover the story of the Chinatown Neighborhood.
    #chinatown #traveldocumentary #joseontour
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    0:00 - Welcome to Chinatown!
    1:11 - San Francisco - The History of the Neighborhood
    3:22 - Los Angeles - Chinatown's Defining Architecture
    5:59 - New York City - A Growing Community
    10:58 - Washington DC - Impact of Urban Renewal
    12:54 - Boston - An Asian Melting Pot
    17:31 - Philadelphia - Save Chinatown!
    22:57 - The Chinese Exclusion Act
    24:00 - Outro
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    My name is Jose and I enjoy bringing America's history to life. If you love Travel Documentaries and learning about America, I invite you to Subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications 🔔 to stay up to date with the Tour.
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    Sources:
    Archive.org
    Epidemic Sound
    Library of Congress
    Storyblocks
    Wikicommons
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    #chinatown #chinatownnyc #chinatownnewyork #chinatownboston #chinatownsf #chinatownsanfrancisco #chinatownphilly #chinatownphiladelphia #chinatownla #chinatownlosangeles #chinatowndc #chinatownwashingtondc #chinatownneighborhood #americanhistory #traveldocumentary #sanfrancisco #newyorkcity #losangeles #philadelphia #washingtondc #boston
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    ***Disclosures: The views and opinions discussed in this video are of my own. This video has no sponsorship or affiliation with any of the aforementioned links, people, places, or things. All footage, edits, and dialogue created by myself. Thank you

КОМЕНТАРІ • 61

  • @jtf267
    @jtf267 2 роки тому +11

    Thank you. I grew up in one of the Chinatowns, in fact a block from wheee you filmed. 9 of us in a 2 bedroom apartment. Tourists used to stop my sister and me in the streets when we were little to take photos of us. Life was not easy but everything sure looks beautiful when watching your video. I was lucky to visit all the Chinatowns you went to. I would love to go back to New York to feast.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому

      Thank you for the feedback. It was an honor to bring some of this story to life and with everything going on I wanted to shed light on the challenges the community faced.

    • @aumarigan
      @aumarigan 2 роки тому

      Are you still in the US?

    • @jtf267
      @jtf267 2 роки тому

      @@aumarigan
      Yes

  • @pushypin
    @pushypin Рік тому +8

    Being a Chinese American who grew up and still live in Chinatown, I have to say this is the best America's Chinatown video I have ever seen. It is the most thorough in history, story of struggle and success, and each Chinatown's uniqueness. I like to give you my most sincere respect for creating this wonderful video.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Рік тому

      It was truly a challenge to bring this to life and break it out in a respectful manner. Thank you for the great feedback

  • @JimC121
    @JimC121 8 місяців тому +1

    Wonderful stories of America's Chinatown.

  • @JoseOnTour
    @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому +9

    Thank you for watching! What did you think??

    • @listerchen778
      @listerchen778 2 роки тому +1

      great video and thanks for sharing the history of our chinatowns. Unfortunately many are crumbling, disappearing, and gentrifying as chinese businesses spread out in the cities and you can get good chinese food and groceries in many other places.

  • @shade0762
    @shade0762 2 роки тому +1

    Diversity is the key to American Ingenuity... sometimes people forget that and it is very sad. Great video.

  • @shosmyth1454
    @shosmyth1454 Рік тому

    I am from midwest and have only visited Chicago Chinatown and I love it. It has been my wdream to visit San Francisco’s Chinatown and I want to go to New York Chinatown for several days.

  • @JoJosCupofMocha
    @JoJosCupofMocha 2 роки тому +3

    absolutely loved this informative video on the history of Chinatown neighborhoods! Especially the Chinatowns in NYC, I'm a native New Yorker so I loved learning more about those neighborhoods as well.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you for the great feedback. I’m also a native New Yorker and up until recently is when I learned the deep history of the area and how it expanded into Flushing Queens.

    • @JoJosCupofMocha
      @JoJosCupofMocha 2 роки тому

      @@JoseOnTour it’s so cool how it expands to other parts of a city or the whole country

  • @user-pm8tq3xd7c
    @user-pm8tq3xd7c 10 місяців тому +2

    Love the video you delivered a great awakening. Thanks .Hope to see you bring ERIÈ PA ...I N THE FALL STAY WELL

  • @CityGeek
    @CityGeek 2 роки тому +5

    Your videos are amazing! And they seemed to have level up recently. Keep up the great work!

  • @paulchezkari6952
    @paulchezkari6952 5 місяців тому +1

    Good documentary, thank you!

  • @PopeBrak
    @PopeBrak 2 роки тому +5

    Happy Lunar New Year, Jose! Sincere thanks to you and your team for sharing this story. This must have been a huge project, but you made it feel entirely seamless! Outstanding content, as always.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you, it’s a story I wanted to put together for some time and happy to share.

  • @Entername-md1ev
    @Entername-md1ev 3 місяці тому +1

    Would love to see a similar video on little Italy’s across America too!

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  3 місяці тому

      I am currently working on a Little Italy video due out this fall. I began Filming in San Diego back in December and am spreading it out throughout the year to visit some of the Italian Festivals across the country.

  • @davistew
    @davistew 2 роки тому +2

    Just a few minutes into it and I’m hooked man! Superb production quality on this!

  • @shosmyth1454
    @shosmyth1454 Рік тому +1

    Great Video! Thank you

  • @BigGuyBoleslaw
    @BigGuyBoleslaw 2 роки тому +1

    A Chinese American software engineer working for Microsoft in Shanghai says that if you want to get a feel for what the neighborhoods there and in Hong Kong used to be like, go to Chinatown in Manhattan. Everything has been rebuilt in China and Hong Kong and what used to be no longer exists.

  • @IvyANguyen
    @IvyANguyen Рік тому +2

    This was very cool to watch. I'm a lifelong Philadelphia resident and always enjoy visiting & eating in Chinatown. The 1st protest I ever attended was against the 1st time a stadium was being proposed for the area on 8 June 2000. I believe the current attempt at building another one must be protested against like other large business proposals before that would have eliminated parts of this amazing & historic part of American and global life. I look forwards to visiting those west coast Chinatowns when I travel Los Angeles & San Francisco. Are there plans to do video on Chinatowns globally at some point?

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Рік тому +1

      Thank You for the great comment Ivy. The minute I heard about the mew stadium I thought the same thing. I think they want to place it in around where the 1970s protest occurred. They really want the 76ers downtown but i think its fine in the outskirts. I actually filmed a Chinatown sequence in Costa Rica which has a big section. I might do a globally one day as the channel grows.

    • @IvyANguyen
      @IvyANguyen Рік тому +1

      @@JoseOnTour From what I understand it's a 2-part thing: 76ers rent the stadium they now play in from the Flyers & Comcast, so they want their own stadium. Fair enough. My problem is their choice of location. Honestly anywhere other than the existing Sports Complex area in South Philly will result in existing neighbourhoods getting damaged. I think it's great that Philly is one city that put all the stadia in the same place rather than confusingly scattering them all over like other cities do. We shouldn't mess it up now by building one where very few people want one at. About Chinatown here, it used to be larger before the Vine Street expressway but since then is now only a 2x3-block rectangle area (8th to 11th, Vine to Filbert, centred on 10th & Race).

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Рік тому

      As we speak about this I went to see a Mets vs Phillies game at citified which is right in the neighborhood and what a nightmare. I immediately thought about the stadium in Philly and wish it would stay where its at. I 100% agree that Philly has the best placement for arenas

  • @el2995
    @el2995 2 роки тому +4

    Nice video! Always enjoyed our trips to San Francisco’s Chinatown, and I have at least sampled some of the Oakland, NYC, Philadelphia and Washington DC Chinatowns (with LA’s on the list to visit). I’ve also sample the Chinatowns of Singapore, Yangon (Myanmar) and Bangkok, with Bangkok’s being perhaps the most interesting, particularly when exploring amid its numerous street markets, atmospheric narrow alleyways, fascinating temples & shrines, and its busy main drag of Yaowarat Road.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому

      I would love to check out some of the Chinatowns outside of the states. I’ve seen some of those in video and can only imagine how fun of an adventure it is. I’ve visited the Chinatown in Amsterdam which was a smaller section. But would love to make a video in the future across the globe.

  • @capnificent
    @capnificent Місяць тому

    This was a great video!

  • @mistyonbayard
    @mistyonbayard 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for doing the tour of America’s Chinatowns!

  • @volchysko
    @volchysko 2 роки тому +1

    It's great as always! 📸

  • @dunny2210
    @dunny2210 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent content! Thank you!

  • @ASH148
    @ASH148 Рік тому

    thx for sharing.

  • @sulee7306
    @sulee7306 Рік тому +4

    Part 2: Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, Mexicali, Honolulu, Ottawa, Houston, Dallas, Richmond BC, Las Vegas, etc.
    You can take the girl out of Chinatown, but not the Chinatown out of the girl.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Рік тому +1

      thank you for the suggestions. I recently recorded a sequence for Costa Rica's Chinatown and would love to do a pt.2 in the rest of NA and maybe a pt.3 across the world.

    • @lateciabrown-sewer4457
      @lateciabrown-sewer4457 Рік тому

      Yes, I love Chinatown in Houston ❤

  • @50sussie
    @50sussie 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you Jose for telling about the Chinesse Exclution Act ( Anti Asian Act) keep on telling there stories Thanks again

  • @DiscoverRay
    @DiscoverRay 2 роки тому +2

    Thought you might do some ASMR eating at that bakery in Boston lol. Maybe next time 😂

  • @ajuharis2062
    @ajuharis2062 2 роки тому +2

    Wow nice sir

  • @lukelarssen7072
    @lukelarssen7072 2 роки тому +1

    what a beautiful video!! why you only have 2k followers

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому

      Thank you really appreciate the feedback. Its a slow and steady race

  • @jasondeo7538
    @jasondeo7538 2 роки тому +1

    🎎🎎🧧🧧🏮🎏 fire bro

  • @darrylt8502
    @darrylt8502 2 роки тому

    Usually I would see an old person playing the erhu or chinese violin in Chinatown. But I think in about 15 years, those musicians will be gone from many or all Chinatown because of the generation fade out. We will still hear them at parades and shops via mp3 but not on a random day live at a Chinatown park. I did see one young non-chinese person playing along with others in this video. Unless, the GenXs and younger decide to carry that tradition which I can't see that right now. Sometimes they sound annoying to my ears, but I try to remind myself not to take it for granted.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  2 роки тому +2

      Its sad to see and I talk about this with my own culture. With every passing generation we lose a piece of the familiar and traditional.

  • @BRICSSCO
    @BRICSSCO 5 місяців тому

    jose bro. Have visited China before?

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  5 місяців тому

      China is one of my dream destinations. The history, architecture, and beautiful natural lands. It's on my bucket list places to visit

  • @dexter4638
    @dexter4638 2 роки тому

    Thanks for another great video!! Do not miss out > P R O M O S M !

  • @Remaagen
    @Remaagen Рік тому

    Original LA Chinatown was located at the Amtrak Union station. LA chinatown is dying. Too much gentrification. Everyone moving to the 626.

  • @kkkreal586
    @kkkreal586 Рік тому

    Boston is Taiwan town, isn't it?

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Рік тому +1

      I think this area is a big mixture of everything similar to other big cities. Taiwanese influence is spread across the New England region and I think there’s even a twitter account to learn more @tecoboston

  • @arturoarabitg6438
    @arturoarabitg6438 10 місяців тому

    You skipped Chicago's Chinatown, brother. Is Chicago just flyover land? 😂

  • @kavecrock1112
    @kavecrock1112 2 роки тому

    From an objective point of view, I think every country has the right to control its own immigration policies. If country A does not want people from country B, that's fine. I don't see anything wrong with it. To be more specific, there is nothing to stop China from having an American Exclusion Act, which would forbid Americans from entering Chinese soil. They would have the absolute right to do that, it is their country. So I don't see a problem with the Chinese Exclusion Act. I wish there would be more exclusion acts. I am facing job competition from immigrants all the time. I wish they would be excluded from entering the US.