fire destroys a bit of history

Last week in Alhambra, California, a fire destoryed a 75-year-old mall in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley's Chinese business district: Blaze destroys bit of history in Alhambra. To many, building was long considered something of a crossroads of China and L.A.'s Chinese American community, telling the story of decades upon decades of Chinese immigration into the region. Now it's gone.