{"id":22693,"date":"2015-11-15T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T00:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=22693"},"modified":"2015-11-15T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T01:04:07","slug":"the-lost-arcade-2015-doc-nyc-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=22693","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Arcade (2015) \/ DOC NYC Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You could tell from the rowdiness and enthusiasm of the audience that this was going to be a fun film to watch! The Lost Arcade<\/strong> was a story of an old dive of an arcade on Mott Street known as the Chinatown Fair<\/strong> which dates back about 5 decades old. The Chinatown Fair was housed on the ground floor and an even more historic tenant lived on the 2nd floor dating back from 1897. It was Chinatown’s earliest & finest restaurant – Port Arthur<\/strong>. This restaurant closed its door in 1974. I asked my family about the the Port Arthur & the Chinatown Fair and they remembered it vividly. My grandfather had immigrated to NYC in the late 1960s living in a tenement building on Elizabeth Street between Broome and Spring. My parents shortly followed.<\/p>\n

(the dark,dank,& narrow Chinatown Fair<\/strong>)
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(Port Arthur Chinese Restaurant<\/strong> from 1897-1974 – 2nd floor above Chinatown Fair)
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\n(Photo by China Press<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

(Dancing Chicken at the Chinatown Fair circa 1975 courtesy of Channel Ed\/Youtube<\/strong>)
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