[KS] Re: Moongate restaurant

[Roald H. Maliangkay]

For those interested...

I just came across some nice old (archived) pictures of this Moongate
restaurant:

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/findingaids/kaaphotos/

Best,

Roald Maliangkay



On 19/3/05 07:14, "Hye Seung Chung" <hyeseung1107 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Professor Robinson,
> 
> Thank you for sharing your personal memory of Ralph's hwangap. Susan was just
> about to turn ninety when I last visited her in Los Angeles in December.  She
> is still remarkably healthy for her age (I presume her active early adult
> years as a naval officer and an amateur baseball player paid off).  The
> restaurant you went to must have been Moongate (the Ahn family business which
> opened in Panorama City in 1954).  While I was still doing my Ph.D. work at
> UCLA, I attended the Tosan symposium in Los Angeles (held in Aug. 2001 when
> Tosan's statue was erected in front of the Riverside City Hall) and Susan gave
> a rather moving speech.  I also interviewed Ralph and he had a lot to offer in
> terms of movie memories since he was an on-and-off actor himself.  It's so
> amazing to consider the magnitude of the Ahn family's legacy in Korean
> American history -- a symbolic pioneering family who successfully assimilated
> into American society.
> 
> Hye Seung
> 
>> >From: "michael Robinson" <robime at indiana.edu>
>> >Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>> >To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>> >Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Question
>> >Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:40:39 -0500
>> > 
>> >Professor Chung:
>> > 
>> >Thank you for your fulsome and enlightening update on the Ahn family and the
>> cinematic doings of the boys.  When I was in Los Angeles working at USC (late
>> 1980s) I went to an elaborate hwangap for Ralph.  It was a who's who of the
>> LA Korean American second generation and their family plus a generous
>> attendance of Koreans from the Consulate and some of the Korean companies in
>> town.  It was a study in different identities.  Ralph's sister Susan gave a
>> speech speech talking about their youth together in LA and to the horrors of
>> the Diplomatic contingent was rather tough on the memory of her famous father
>> who was absent during her teen years.  The venue was a Chinese restaurant in
>> Panorama City bedecked with beaded curtains and with the walls festooned with
>> stills from Philip's films.  I should have taped the procedings.
>> > 
>> >MRobinson 
>> >   ----- Original Message -----
> 
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