Chinatown's "Little One" Roams without Playmates

Chinatown's "Little One" Roams without Playmates

This article is about Tony Eng, identified by report Dorothy Powers as "China Alley's only Chinese child." The article suggests that the Chinese community in Trent Alley is dying out due to the age of its storekeepers and the fact that many of the existing Chinese families in Spokane have moved elsewhere. Tony Eng was a fourth generation Chinese American whose great-grandfather started the family store on Trent Alley. While the article describes Trent Alley of 1951 as a far cry from its peak when the alley was "ablaze with the brightly colored silks of dozens of dark-eyed youngsters," it does overlook at least one Asian family living in the alley at the time and the racially diverse Lincoln Elementary School at which children living in Trent Alley would have attended.

Powers, Dorothy Rochon

Spokesman-Review

Spokane (Wash.): Cowles Publishing Company

1951 August 5

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