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Harry Quillin’s Chinatown
Harry Quillin was born in Texas in 1899 and began his career as a journalist after serving in World War I. In the 1930s, he worked for the Los Angeles Evening Herald and the Los Angeles Examiner, where he covered a wide range of topics, including politics, crime, and social issues.
One of Quillin’s most famous pieces is a series of articles he wrote about the Chinese community in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. In the 1930s, Chinatown was a vibrant and bustling neighborhood, but it was also plagued by crime and poverty. Quillin’s reporting shed light on the challenges faced by the residents of Chinatown and the discrimination they often experienced.
The articles were first published in the Los Angeles Evening Herald in 1938 and were later compiled into a book titled “Chinatown: The Way It Was.” Quillin’s work is considered a valuable resource for historians and journalists studying the history of Los Angeles’s Chinese community.
Quillin continued to write about Chinatown and other topics throughout his career, and he was known for his insightful and compassionate reporting. He passed away in 1966, but his legacy lives on through his writings, which continue to inspire and inform readers to this day.