Home to about 60,000 people — almost 65 percent of whom are Asian-American — Monterey Park was America’s first suburban Chinatown, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The land was once a valley in the Monterey Hills before it was filled with dirt from neighboring development, said Marcos Aguilar, who co-founded the school with his wife, Minnie Ferguson.

Fanny Johnson-Griffin, 86, a retired Los Angeles Unified principal and Monterey Hills resident since 1967, says peafowls have dropped down from the 50-foot pine tree near her garage in the ...

Why Monterey Park Is Known As The Chinese Beverly Hills As with most cities and neighborhoods in Southern California, ...

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The resistance had little effect. By the 1990s, Monterey Park had all but replaced Los Angeles’s Chinatown as the metropolitan area’s prime destination for authentic Chinese food.

Los Angeles is getting a new area code 738 is the new kid in town. By Helen Jeong • Published September 6, 2024 • Updated on September 7, 2024 at 3:34 pm ...