Early Chinatown was a place of restaurants, underground gambling dens and brothels, but it has grown more affluent and ...

During the Prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was banned in the United States, the American Mafia, along with other ...

Dupont was Vancouver’s most notorious street in the early days, home to the city’s first red light district. It also had opium dens, which were legal at the time. It became so infamous that the street ...

They ran secret bars and gambling dens. Prohibition was the result ... they suffered due to the introduction of opium by British imperialists. The Chinese called this period the Century of ...

He’s also working on a bigger, more extravagant concept inspired by a Chinese “illicit gambling opium den,” he says. Foodwise, the dim sum essentials are offered: steamed har gow (shrimp ...

“Among these commodities and consumer goods were derivatives of the opium poppy and the coca ... and men were getting “stoned in fetid [Chinese] dens,” as the law scholar George Fisher ...

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“It’s a really good working relationship in Chinese lore,” Masar said ... “The vision is to be like opium room vibes from the 1920s in Chinatown. Tall ceilings, red brick, red accent lighting, real ...