Chinese In Boston
DOSTON Chinatown, that once-enchanted enclave where a night out was a magic carpet to the Orient and an inexpensive date as well, just isn't the same any more. A young man can tako his lady there and still pay his tuition bill, even now, but the high excitement it used to hold exists only on Chinese holidays.
The march of time and prosperity hav'、 drawn away its people, the superhighway has knifed through it, and today there are probably no more than 300 persons living there. It is a tiny place, ongulfed by the garment district, Tufts medical school and the Expressway and by night the neon peacocks and dragons hiding the South End brick of which it is made seem pitifully few.
The exodus started years ago, when successful residents joined the drift to the suburbs, where, incidentally, a u'hole new school of Chinese restau-iints has come into being. The same circumstances that led to the growth of the bedroom town and the birth
of the suburban shopping center brought the slow but steady departure of Chinatown's more affluent citi
zens.
Major surgery came with the crea tion of the toll road extension and the Central Artery, which uprooted about 200 families. Most of them significantly, still live in the South End, not far from their old home.
The nucleus remains―the handsome Chinese Merchants Association Building, the Young Men's Christian Association, places of worship, and, of course, some of the restaurants, shops and grocery stores which give the place its exoticism. And the Chinese institutions which are invisible, and largely incomprehensible, to the Occidental mind, but which give the Chinese their magnificent dignity and security—these, of course, remain too.
Juvenile delinquency is unknown here, because respect for elders is so deeply ingrained in the Chinese soul and culture. Any Chinese who finds himself in trouble with Massachusetts
THE VANCOUVER CHINESE BOWLING CLUB INVITES YOU
to its
NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE
DECEMBER 31, 1964 AT THE REGAL BALLROOM,  HOTEL GEORGIA
擊 7:00 p.m.—Cocktail hour.
• 8:00 p.m.—Dinner—Grilled New York Cut Sirloin Steak (1 2-oz.)
• Dancing Till 2:30 o.m.
• Bor Service provided——Drinks only 25 cents each.
Music by the Hotel Georgia Orchestra led by John Lava rock.
Price: $ 15 50 per couple. Door Prizes
Call MU 2-1851 (days) or AL 3-0605, AL 5-8389 (nights) for reservations.
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CHINATOWN NEWS, DEC. !8, 1964