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hardcore punk. Opened. For Music, June 5, 1979. Closed. January, 1981. The Hong Kong Café was a Los Angeles restaurant and music venue that was a part of the Los Angeles punk rock scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s when the club was owned and operated by Barry Seidel, Kim Turner and Suzie Frank,followed by a resurgence from 1992 to 1995.
On New Year’s Eve, 1980, the legendary Hong Kong Café in L.A.’s Chinatown hosted its last beer-soaked, raucous punk show. This past New Year’s Eve was also a milestone event for the ...
Los Angeles, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Music promoter, businesswoman, restaurant owner. Spouses. George Wong. Harry Wong. Children. 2. Esther Wong (August 13, 1917 – August 14, 2005) was a Chinese-American music promoter, called the "Godmother of Punk " in Los Angeles, California.
The PBS SoCal/KCET series "Artbound" kicks off its 14th season with a look at the rivalry of two venues, Madame Wong's and the Hong Kong Cafe, in the heyday of L.A. punk and new wave.
United States. Coordinates. 34°3′51″N 118°14′13″W. / 34.06417°N 118.23694°W / 34.06417; -118.23694. Little Joe's Italian American Restaurant was a historic Italian-American restaurant which once stood in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles, California USA at the corner of Broadway and College Street. The area was once part ...
The cafe opened in 1946, during the post-war Atomic Age marked with a pop culture obsession with all things atomic. [1] It was owned and operated by the Matoba family and founded by Ito and Minoru Matoba. [2] The cafe was notable as a popular gathering place for adherents of punk rock in Los Angeles from 1977 forward. [3]
The Original Pantry Cafe is a coffee shop and restaurant in Los Angeles, California. Located at the corner of 9th and Figueroa in Downtown L.A.'s South Park district, The Pantry (as it is known by locals) claims to never have closed or been without a customer since it opened including when it changed locations in 1950 to make room for a freeway ...
213, 323. Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.