Olive Street Chop Suey: "Lee Cafe Chop Suey"
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- Title
- Olive Street Chop Suey: "Lee Cafe Chop Suey"
- Description
- Horizontal black and white photograph shows Olive Street, looking east from Grand Avenue. There are signs for different business including Metropolitan Cigar Store, Hirsch Hair Bazaar, Lee Cafe Chop Suey, Vandeventer Trust Company, Chas. A. Schmidt Surgical Supplies. There is a sign on the other side of the street that advertises that the Hawaiian School of Music had moved.
- Creator
- Photographer: W.C. Persons
- Semester
- Spring 2026
- Subject
- Chop Suey
- Chinese
- Chinatown
- Midtown
- Temporal Coverage
- 1910 – 1929
- Spatial Coverage
- Midtown St. Louis, Missouri
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Photograph
- Date
- 1922
- Source
- Missouri Historical Society http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/840967
- Is Part Of
- Grand Avenue and Olive Street
- Explanation of Omeka Map Location
- The Missouri Historical Society lists the image as "Olive Street, looking East from Grand Avenue."
